Missions and Outreach
At Edgewater, we designate 10% of our income including donations, rent from the Post Office, and income from the Thrift Store to missions and outreach projects, from local to international missions, as God leads. In Charlotte and/or Sarasota Counties: Habitat for Humanity, Homeless Coalition, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Helping Our Returning Neighbors (HORN) [assisting former prisoners to assimilate back into the community], Center for Abused and Rape Victims (CARE), Angel Tree (provides Christmas gifts for children of incarcerated parent(s), Veterans Home Canteen
Internationally: Support for our sister Methodist churches in Guayabo and Cueto, Cuba, including: financial aid, food to help ease the famine in those areas, OTC drugs such as asprin and antacids, which are otherwise not available. OASIS medical supply missions to Cuba, ECHO (training and seeds provided to small, family farms to grow sustainable food crops), Sew Powerful (multiple African outreaches), Operation Christmas Child (shoebox Christmas gifts for children around the globe)
Run Ministries
Since its founding over 30 years ago, God has enabled Reaching Unreached Nations, Inc. (“RUN Ministries”) to come alongside first generation Jesus followers and launch multiplying church planting movements from within the unreached world. Providing culturally sensitive discipleship models, evangelistic media tools, and practical skills for their ministries to become self-sustaining, today RUN provides spiritual leadership and care to more than 58 million believers who speak 796 languages, and are growing in their faith in Christ in over 3 million house churches.
Christ for Cuba
Dan Christopherson and his wife, Janet, went to Cuba for the first time, and the experience left a lasting impression. In 2009, Dan took a leap of faith and volunteered to become the new District Coordinator.
Through much determination and many blessings, the program has grown into the Southwest District Mission Program, Inc. In the spring of 2014, the organization became a not-for-profit 501c(3) organization formed to assist and promote many challenges within the country of Cuba. With your assistance and contributions, we can give our Cuban brothers and sisters, and the next generation, opportunities for a better future.