Administration of the missions work at Morgantown involves helping to direct the focus of the church to the mission activities and to support those who are involved with foreign and domestic missions.
This is a church planting that Morgantown CoC has supported by our participation and financially with $2400 annually. Duane Salisbury is the primary minister in Kingwood, WV with about 25 regular members. His son is a member at the Morgantown church and Dick Shuttlesworth has been the primary contact with Kingwood.
This 14 bed home in Fairmont, WV was started in 1972 by area churches of Christ to care for our elderly and outreach to the poor of our community. John Sausen and Andrea Hart serve on their Board of Directors. Participation in quarterly worship services, financial contributions and providing toiletries and other items to help the residents is always welcome. There are also 4 handicap accessible apartments on the property that are available to those who do not need the services of the personal care home.
Winston Bolt lives in Batam, Indonesia and has networked throughout its nation to establish new church plantings and support other churches of Christ. He has established a school for preaching to train new ministers and other church leaders in for this church network. The Morgantown CoC supports Winston’s personal salary. Other churches throughout the USA provide support for the school and for the Indonesian mission teams.
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This is a well established program that utilizes a bible correspondence course with anyone in the world that wants to study the Bible. Local teachers are provided names of contacts to send teaching material that will be returned for grading and comments. If the student wants a personal contact, the WBS can be notified and they will send a missionary within reach to seek out the student. Our members such as Johnny Johnson and Betty Goss have reached out to thousands of bible students. More information is available at www.wbschool.org.
This is a way to reach people in your own community that want to learn English, but are willing to study the Bible as a means to achieve both the our language of speech and the language of the Gospel. College campuses, like here at WVU are a great opportunity to reach out and make contact with people from around the world and teach them and befriend them. Lois Morris and others are interested in making this work. The national web site is www.lst.org.
There is always opportunity to serve others and in the process share your faith. Roger Gidley can help organize groups of church members to help with hoe repairs, clean up after local disasters, serve the elderly with their property and many other ways to serve our community.
This is a national organization that seeks out places in the US that do not have strong established churches of Christ. They organize mission teams to go into these areas to plant churches. Local congregations, like ours can participate by partnering with these church plantings financially, by equipping people to go and help and by mentoring those who are working in the new church. The KAIROS web site is www.kairoschurchplanting.org.
Seth and Susan Neptune have experienced the blessings of travel to a foreign country to help the poor. They worked through the TORCH organization to go and elp build shelter for the poor surrounding the capitol of Honduras. Annual trips are planned and members can participate by going or providing financial assistance. TORCH is part of the InterAmerican Restoration Corporation, www.irccorp.org.
We have two local prisons, the Kennedy Center and the Hazelton FCI. There are positions that can be applied for to provide bible study times and ministry opportunities. Jim Lewis has been a corrections officer at Kennedy and others have been inside the corrections environment that can be a place to change lives and share your faith.