Ministering to the Least of These: East 91st Street Christian Church, Indianapolis, IN

East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis supports HIV/AIDS and hunger relief through long-term partnerships with CMF International and Food for the Hungry, plus an annual Thanksgiving weekend world hunger offering.

By Christian Standard

August 12, 2007·1 min read

In brief

East 91st Street Christian Church’s partnerships addressing HIV/AIDS and hunger

East 91st Street Christian Church in Indianapolis supports organizations working to combat HIV/AIDS and respond to hunger. Through long-standing partnerships, the church helps fund cross-cultural mission work and relief and development efforts. A yearly world hunger offering helps extend this support locally and globally.

The church supports Christian Missionary Fellowship International’s expanding HIV/AIDS efforts in Africa and southeast Asia.
It has long partnered with Food for the Hungry, International for worldwide relief and development work.
An annual Thanksgiving weekend offering directs funds to both Indianapolis needs and global hunger and HIV/AIDS work.

East 91st Street Christian Church
Indianapolis, Indiana

East 91st Street Christian Church is combating HIV/AIDS primarily through our support of organizations involved in this work.

Key mission partnerships

For decades, we have been a major supporter of Christian Missionary Fellowship International, and many of the cross-cultural missionaries we support are affiliated with CMF. In recent years CMF has broadened the scope of its ministry to include some major moves into the areas of HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa and southeast Asia. Through our partnership with CMF, we believe we are making a contribution to these world crises.

We have been a major supporting partner of Food for the Hungry, International, almost since the founding of the organization. It is a relief and development organization that works worldwide wherever the need is great. It is very involved in relief work for the starving, impoverished, and sick of the world.

World hunger offering

For decades, East 91st has taken an annual world hunger offering the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. In the past five years, the one-time offering has been as high as $81,000. We typically give 15 percent of the offering to address hunger and homelessness in urban Indianapolis, then divide the remainder among four or five organizations doing substantial work to address world hunger and HIV/AIDS.