Missions
East Tallassee Church of Christ has been active in evangelistic missions for many years. Our mission workers have served in Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. We've supported preachers in India and other nations as well. We focused on Jamaica for thirty years, helping churches all across the country by conducting campaigns, acquiring property for church buildings and supporting native gospel preachers.
Today our away-from-home missions are focused in three places. Our international emphases is Cuba and Jamaica, while our domestic mission support in in Montana.
Cuba
Our mission work in Cuba began in the early 1990s, when Bill and Joyce Stough began making humanitarian aid trips to the island nation. Through contacts in the medical field, they were able to arrange large container shipments of donated medical equipment and supplies to help meet some desperate needs there. They even arranged for an ambulance to be delivered to one of Cuba's hospitals.
Perhaps the most publicized and effective humanitarian aid gesture was a shipment of 3 million pencils for school children all across Cuba.
Humanitarian aid made friends and opened the door for congregations to become legal and for the churches to grow through the spread of the gospel. Today there are about 150 legally recognized churches of Christ in Cuba and others that are not officially recognized but are tolerated.
East Tallassee Church of Christ provides full support for four Cuban preachers and their families as they serve the Lord in different cities and churches across the island. We also support two other Cuban men who work full-time in personal evangelism. Additionally, we support a daily breakfast for poor elderly people at two congregations in Havana.
These Cuban churches are growing as the preachers and other dedicated Christians share the gospel with and show the love of Jesus to their neighbors.
Jamaica
One of the many works at ETCC is our mission trips to Santa Cruz, Jamaica. We partner with the Santa Cruz Church of Christ and Growing Faithful Children, a Church of Christ organization that is officially recognized by the Ministry of Education of Jamaica. In June of each year we spend several days in Santa Cruz. During our trips, we work with the public schools, encourage and build up the church and seek opportunities for evangelism and Bile study. During the year, other trips are made to properly communicate and enrich the relationships that have been made. If you have a heart for the lost or children, this is a work for you!