Global community

Gillingham Community Church members are involved with supporting worldwide Christian mission organisations such as Barnabas Fund, British and Foreign Bible Society, Leprosy Mission, Mercy Ships, Mission Aviation Fellowship, Open Doors, Operation Mobilisation, Release International, Tearfund, The Bible Project, Toilet Twinning and Veterinary Christian Fellowship. Additionally they support mission in many specific countries overseas.

As a church we are sponsoring a child through Compassion.

Compassion

Compassion’s main focus is on individual sponsorship whereby sponsors commit themselves to sponsoring a child of their choice and maintain contact by sending and receiving letters. 

Children receiving sponsorship are given formal education, medical care which may include provision of basic supplies such as soap, toothpaste, food and clothing that is needed, as well as being introduced to the gospel at the project they attend. As children develop, they also receive guidance on career planning, setting realistic goals for their future with the help of project staff. 

Compassion always aims to be:

• Child focused – every child has the opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel in a culturally relevant way:

• Christ centred – programmes engage each child, fostering their spiritual, economic, social and physical development;

• Church based – programmes are run exclusively through local churches.

Over the years some 1.3 million have been lifted out of poverty through Compassion’s work and last year 125,000 children came to faith in Jesus. Compassion’s work is literally life-changing and even from thousands of miles distance, we can play a part in changing children’s lives.