Involve Your Church

Floresta has so many opportunities to keep churches active. Your church can become a partner to fight poverty and deforestation. Everyone has God-given potential and Floresta’s program allows individuals and church groups to find their gifts and talents

Floresta wants to serve you and help your church find ways to impact the world’s poor. As your church begins to invest in the lives of the rural poor to reverse deforestation and povety, your congregation will begin to see firsthand what Jesus meant when he said, “What you have done unto the least of these, you have done unto me.”

*Download and print the Church Partnership Champion Guide PDF here so you can have information about ways to support Floresta at your church. If you do not have Adobe Reader, go here to download.*

Sponsor A Village

We’d love to have your church members take a journey with us and transform the lives of individuals in villages in Haiti , Dominican Republic, Mexico and Tanzania . By sponsoring a village you will have a direct impact in helping others provide for their families. You will bring dignity and hope to these communities. Contact us at 1-800-633-5319 to see how your church can help us get the word out about Sponsor A Village.

Short-Term Missions

Send a work team, pastoral team or other ministry group to see firsthand Floresta’s work around the world. Your congregation will work closely with the villages we support. They will be help with tree planting and other projects. They will get a chance to witness, firsthand, lives being transformed through small business loans and agroforestry projects. We would love to hear from you if you feel your church would be interested in going on a trip. They will witness lives being changes, as their own is changed in the process.

Prayer

Our church partners pray diligently for all the countries we work in. Your church can pray for specific needs within each country. We would love to have you sign up to become a prayer partner. Thank you for involving your church and lifting up our programs and those we serve.

Community Development and Project Support

By funding our microenterprise and agroforestry projects, your church will be able to hear and see needs get met. Projects needing funding include; vegetable gardens, providing fresh water by building water cisterns, planting trees and starting nurseries, buying new vehicles to hall products and supplies, loan money to give so families can start their own businesses and much more. Let us know where your heart is and we will give you more information on each of these areas.

Cross-Cultural Staff Support

Churches can financially and prayerfully support an international employee of Floresta in one of the villages you may be sponsoring. The staff person will be your onsite missionary to help you understand the language, culture and specific community needs. Communication between our Programs Director and your church will allow you to receive updated information on the community you support. You can visit this staff person on mission trips, and begin to build a unique cross-cultural learning opportunity.

Church Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteering provides a link between your missions teams and church groups to fulfill God’s call to express the love of Christ both naturally and spiritually. Volunteering allows individuals and groups the opportunity to love people and serve others. Floresta has an incredible volunteer network. Please let us know if your church would like to support and be involved in this network.

Church Resources

Begin to understand environmental stewardship. Invite one of Floresta’s staff members to your church to share bible study materials, books and other resources that directly educate church goers on the importance of “environmental stewardship”. We will also provide materials on poverty and world hunger. By letting us showcase our programs through a presentation, you will allow your congregation to learn ways they can reverse poverty and deforestation.

Please let us know if you are interested in having us visit your church to speak and show a video on deforestation and poverty. Floresta cannot reach the lost, and those suffering from poverty without your support!