THE Building
The Colombia Building Fund will:
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Provide church buildings:
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Multiple churches can use the building for church services.
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Help churches serve their communities:
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Each week the building could host: tutoring, after-school programs, college classes, a feeding center, sports programs, a coffee shop, and anything that helps reach and connect with people.
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Provide buildings for future church plants:
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Churches and activities that pay rent (coffee shop, sports programs, churches) generate income to purchase new buildings.
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In addition to these purposes, the fund will also create these advantages for churches:
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A nice building in a great location gives the church credibility in the community.
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Provides a location for ministries that meet the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of children in poverty.
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Free up funds to support ministry, local church-planting, and missions.
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Multiple churches share expensive sound and video equipment.
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Generate funds to buy church buildings across Colombia.
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Involve your church directly in church-planting in Colombia. (how to help)
Your giving to the Colombia Building Fund is an investment in current and future church-plants in Colombia. Your donation will be multiplied by the very churches who benefit from it.
Self-Replenishing
Behind the scenes, the fund fuels church-planting!
Since the church is not a building, we believe several independent churches can share the same building. As churches started in the building grow, they will contribute $1,000/month in "rent" back into the fund. That's 70% less than it would cost to rent a similar building.
As churches contribute to the fund, their contributions will buy new buildings for future church plants.
Example:
If three churches eventually are started in the building, sharing the space at different times on Sunday, the amount those churches contribute back into the fund as "rent" would buy a similar, new church building in a less expensive city in Colombia every 5 years.
That means a similar church-planting movement could be started, with a building, in a new city every five years! The second building would function the same: eventually serving multiple churches, paying "rent" back into the fund, and someday sending out church-planters to repeat the process yet again.
The Colombia Building Fund will allow third-world churches to participate in church-planting across Colombia and, eventually, throughout the world.
Now, that's an investment in missions!
