Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple... -1 Peter 2:5

The church is on the front line of development in our villages. Once we have constructed a solid church building and parsonage, other churches copy our construction style. Then the village chief and business leaders are motivated to also adopt our architecture. It is not simply a matter of having a place for the people to worship and for the pastor and family to live, we are demonstrating that we have a hope for the future of this place and demonstrate that hope by construction that will last for many years. This hope inspires others to join us in building the future together.

As our pastors plant their gardens, as we develop community fish ponds, and start other local development projects, the church members do the same. Other churches and their members begin to do the same. We begin to fight hunger and establish food security and cooperation in the community. As families begin to have surplus food production, they have income for school fees, medicines, and other family expenses. As income rises in the community, schools and other cooperative community institutions can be established.

As the successes in one village are observed in one village, others imitate it. Like dominoes the evils of despair, hunger, poverty, and ignorance will fall across North Katanga, the Congo, and all of Africa. Solid church buildings and parsonages are not simply construction, they are the trumpet blasts of hope sounded by the United Methodist Church.

Our vision is for every village in North Katanga to have at least one well-constructed United Methodist church and parsonage. We now have over 100 well-constructed church and parsonages thanks to this campaign. Because of the war, our progress has been slowed and some buildings destroyed. Now is the time to build at full speed again--We have hundreds to go!

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