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Author: Andrew Mackay

Supporting Outreach to the Homeless in New Jersey

This Christian homeless shelter in New Jersey offers emergency shelter to the homeless men and women of their community. They also offer a 36-week rehabilitation program designed to assist individuals in the recovery and healing of their lives — spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Through spiritual mentorship, life classes, and accountability, those who participate regain what they have lost through substance abuse and poor choices. The Be...

Teaching Unity in Rome

A staff member at a large church in Rome, Italy, studies one of our Premium Collection books, titled “Peace and Healing.” It was our pleasure to partner with a US church to send a seminary-trained pastor to Italy to teach on the importance of biblical Christian unity and then gift the church leadership with copies of our Premium Collection. We hope that God reveals His passion...

Supporting Medical Outreach in Mexico

This Christian soup kitchen in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, meets the needs of indigent families through the supply of food and friendship with local believers. On Saturdays, a medical doctor visits the kitchen, examining those who need medical attention. This service is of great importance to the underprivileged, as there are not any medical clinics nearby and transportation can be difficult to obtain. It is a powerful demonstration...

Supporting Christian Orphanages in Uganda

Two girls celebrate a safe place to call home. For many children throughout the nation of Uganda, there is no assurance of safety. Abuse, neglect and abandonment run rampant, and those whose parents have become victims of the growing AIDS epidemic are often dropped off by relatives at local dumps or turned out into the streets to fend for themselves. Not these two! They have been...

Supporting Christian Schools

With the help of the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry, this Christian school is moving forward with their mission to reach the lost and teach the saved in one of the fastest growing communities in Florida. Almost doubling in size in less than ten years, this community is now home to many new families looking for a place to belong. The school and the overseeing...

Teaching Christian Unity in the Philippines

Ministry students receive Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry resources to help further their education on the important topic of biblical Christian unity. In the Philippines, just 2% of the population considers themselves to be Protestant/Christian. There is much work to be done here, and these students will now be prepared with training on what the Bible really says about Christian unity so that they can...

Christian Drug Rehabilitation in Mexico

Believers gather to pray over a new Christian rehabilitation center in Mexico. At this center, men will be provided with housing and food at no charge as they go through the program. We’ve been blessed to support the international ministry that oversees the center. They work to take the message of Jesus Christ to the nations by reaching out to all members of society—even those who...

Partnering to Feed the Homeless

The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry provides funding for a homeless outreach in Ohio, cared for by Only Believe Ministries Christian Center. Each week, 75 to 100 less fortunate individuals come out to be fed and are taught the Word of God while they are eating. This is another example of two Christian organizations united together to impact the world! “Sell your possessions and...

Supporting Christian Schools in Kenya

In Narok, Kenya, children under the age of 14 make up 51% of the total population. Families throughout this region are often large and struggle with poverty. There is not enough money for them to send their children to local private schools, so elementary-aged students like the boys pictured here walk miles to attend a free school. This group of students celebrated the arrival of an...

Digging a Well in Uganda

The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry sponsored the building of this hand-dug well in Kampala, Uganda. Now, more than 50,000 people throughout the region are able to have daily access to clean drinking water. This is an example of how Christian unity impacts the world! “When the poor and needy search for water and there is none, and their tongues are parched from thirst, then...

Providing Hands on Help in Rural Mexico

A church worker sponsored by the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry paints the school compound of a tiny village in rural Mexico. Later on, she and other workers assisted a local pastor who has been struggling to acquire a piece of land upon which to build a permanent location for their church. “The greatest among you must be a servant.” Matthew 23:11

Teaching Christian Unity in Kasese Uganda

Pastors’ wives in Kasese, Uganda, express their appreciation and excitement over the books we donated to their ministry. The message of Bible-based Christian unity is critically important, and pastors in this region are committed to learning more, teaching accurately, and praying for God to unify believers in their communities.

Sharing the good news

By God’s grace, the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry was honored to partner with Jewish Voice Ministries International to reach the children of Chitsungo, Zimbabwe. During this school outreach, 238 children learned about the Christian faith and the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ. They also received Personal LifeStraw water filters, which will provide them with clean drinking water for an entire year. “Jesus said,...

Supporting a Christian School in Meru, Kenya

It is shocking to think that more than one million children do not attend school in Kenya. For those that do, many walk several miles each way to class and do not eat until they return home each evening. Getting an education takes sacrifice, both personal and familial. This is why the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry, by God’s grace, makes such an effort...

Supporting Christian Schools

Here you see the first class of a new Christian school established in Paynesville, Liberia. Liberia is Africa’s first republic. The nation has undergone great unrest in the last twenty years, including a violent civil war, which left more than 250,000 dead, and a 3-year outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which killed approximately 11,000. The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry has collaborated with Christian...

Feeding Hungry Children

Rio Blanco, Honduras is a shanty town, home to 3,000 men, women, and children. Networking with a local church, by God’s grace, the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry was able to help the church build a new sanctuary and start a feeding program for impoverished children in their community. Today, over 100 children are fed each week by the church! Imagine the opportunities church leaders...

Reintroducing the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry

In case you’ve missed it, with all the hubbub of the last few months, we want to invite you to explore our website! And, since you’re here, we thought we’d take this opportunity to reintroduce ourselves to you. The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry was created by more than fifty individuals in ten states, united by a desire to see God’s will for Christian...

A Place to Sleep

These twelve orphan girls in Seeta, Uganda, are so happy to have a brand new dormitory, provided, by God’s grace, in partnership with the Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry. There are more than a thousand orphans in the area of Seeta due to economic crisis and sickness. Many of these children were dropped off by their families in the local dump and left for...

Breaking the Chains of Addiction

The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry has partnered with Ohio Valley Teen Challenge to provide funding to a 250,000 sq.ft. Teen Challenge facility in Ohio. While attending this program, clients begin to break addictive habits and learn who God is and why they should entrust their lives to His leading. By the time the program ends, clients are ready to reintegrate within their community, engaging...

Supporting a Christian Orphanage in Russia

The Be United in Christ Outreach Ministry is honored to support missionaries to Russia in the building of Grace House, a Christian home for orphans and single Russian mothers who grew up in orphanages. They also receive and care for single mothers who have been involved in prostitution, a rampant problem across Russia. We were able to assist with the drilling of a well on the...

Truth and Unity

“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” (John 17:17). Soon after Solomon died, Israel divided into a northern kingdom ruled by Jeroboam and a southern kingdom ruled by Rehoboam. Fearing he would lose his people’s allegiance if they kept returning to the temple in Jerusalem, Jeroboam made two gold idols for his subjects to worship and instituted a new priesthood to keep them...

Partnering with the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley

One way we are impacting the world with Christian unity is through partnering with the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley, a Christian-based homeless shelter in Ohio. Their goal is to serve and glorify God through a Christ-centered outreach of love and compassion that responds to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the disadvantaged without regard to color or creed. This mission not only focuses...

The Last Word

Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out. (Proverbs 17:14 NLT) It takes courage and humility to let someone else have the last word in the midst of a disagreement. We want to get the last word in—to have the final say. We should exercise self-control and refrain instead. Such courage, humility, and self-control are necessary for the...

The Important Distinction Between Unselfishness and Love

But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:13 In his sermon titled the Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis observes the significant shift in the understanding of virtue during modern times. “If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you...

With One Voice: Living in Unity to Glorify God

The ultimate aim of our unity as Christians is the glory of God. That is, to worship, honor, and exalt Him with one voice. Listen to how Paul closes his letter to the Romans: May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the...

4 Key Questions to Ask Before Helping Others Resolve Conflict

He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a dog by the ears. (Proverbs 26:17) Though helping to resolve conflict between fellow believers is an act of love, meddling in disputes is not. Inserting yourself into a conflict that isn’t yours is about as helpful as grabbing a pit bull by the ears. It will not...