Major Ministries

Provide clean, disease-free water to families across South Asia through our clean water ministry. Clean water is delivered via Jesus Wells, each one providing fresh water for an entire village, and Biosand Water Filters, which purify water from polluted sources and make it clean enough for drinking, cooking and washing. Your gift improves families’ health and hygiene and even saves lives.

Tens of millions of people around the world live in the squalor of slums—in one-room shanties, usually without electricity, running water or toilets. But through slum ministry, people in slums have the chance for a better life. GFA missionaries serving in slums teach adult literacy classes and tutor children. They disseminate information about health and hygiene. They distribute income-generating gifts, along with practical gifts, like water filters, toilets and clothing. They also share with slum dwellers about the greatest gift anyone could gain: the love of God.

Fledgling congregations often lack a permanent structure to use for worship services, which exposes them to a host of problems. Their meetings—and ministries—are also hindered simply because they do not have space to gather as a church family. Your gift helps us to build and repair buildings. Even a gift of $80 can help provide decades of safer worship; with others sharing the cost, a church can be built!

A place of worship:

• Testifies to the local community of the Lord’s presence and the credibility and stability of the local congregation.
• Protects believers from outside dangers during worship services.
• Offers a safe, welcoming location for visitors from any background who want to learn about Jesus.
• Serves as a center for relief distributions during times of crisis.
• Frees believers to worship openly and exuberantly without worrying about disturbing their landlords or neighbours.
• Shelters believers from heavy rain and intense summer heat.

When you give to Compassion Services, you help meet the needs of people in desperate situations. With your gift, GFA missionaries can minister in slums and leprosy colonies, bring medical care to remote communities and provide practical, hope-filled relief supplies after a disaster, all revealing God’s compassion and care to burdened and broken individuals.