Offering & Giving for Shelter Rock Digital Church Service

One-Time Gift

Monthly Appalachian Child Sponsorship Gift

Monthly Native American Sponsorship Gift

Shelter Rock Giving  Q & A

How Does Shelter Rock Child Sponsorship Help? 

When we share the Love of Jesus Christ with a child, we know that lives are forever changed because God’s kind-of-Love never fails!  Perhaps you can remember the first time love turned your life around.  If so, then you know how powerful it is, to have intimate knowledge of Jesus’ Love.  When you sponsor a child, you enable a field team search and relief expedition to reach boys and girls where they are.  We travel into areas of extreme poverty in Appalachia and among Native American reservations.  We literally knock on doors to meet children where they are.  We identify the greatest need of each child during our visits and we pray with them knowing prayer can do anything God can do.  

And it works!  Our holistic, agape-empowering approach has been effectively helping boys and girls to transform their lives since 2001.       

Growing in faith:  In our mission outreach, most of the children say they experience Jesus’ Love and most of the boys and girls go on to participate in local Christian church programs like Sunday school.  

What Makes Shelter Rock Different?

We conduct Missionary Search and Relief in some of America’s most impoverished areas to the most vulnerable.  While serving the poor in the Name of Jesus Christ, we work in some of the most fragile places—where life is the most difficult for children, and where most missionaries don’t usually go.  Through child sponsorship, you help us to reach children in the poorest of places in Appalachia and on Native American Reservations.

Our identity empowering approach builds confidence and helps children to find a life’s purpose.  We personally reach families where they are and help children to envision a greater purpose for their lives.  Your sponsorship helps us to go to where the children are and minister to entire neighborhoods with the unconditional Love of Jesus, so all the children can benefit.

Our mission work lasts a life-time and beyond.  A child’s life, when introduced to Christ’s Love, is never the same again.  When a child is edified, encouraged, championed and celebrated, they never forget.  Regardless of what challenges life may bring, words of encouragement, sown into the fertile soil of a child’s heart, take root and grow.  The Bible says in Proverbs to “Train up a child in the way they should go: and when they are old, they will not depart from it.”  Our goal is to share the unconditional Love of Jesus Christ with every child we meet in the mission field, knowing that His Love never fails!  

We serve all and do not discriminate.  As Christian missionaries, we serve those of all faiths and those with none while demonstrating our faith in Jesus Christ in a culturally appropriate and respectful way.

We help introduce God’s Love and guidance for children at every age.  Our passion is for nothing less than a child’s total spiritual well-being. As part of a Kingdom coalition, we have partnered through the years with individuals and organizations to serve gifts of food, clothing and other items appropriate for the children we reach.  

Am I sponsoring an individual child?

Your sponsorship enables a missionary team to reach a boy or girl living in crushing poverty in desperate need of the Love of Jesus Christ.  Many children will benefit from sponsorship, not just one child.  You will receive real stories about the lives of real children and what an impact Shelter Rock is able to make in their lives, thanks to your support. You may also send individual age appropriate Christmas and Birthday gifts for either a boy or a girl. 


Will my monthly donation go directly to a child or their family?  

Through a Shelter Rock child sponsorship, you’re connected with many children living in generational poverty, and your monthly donations are pooled for maximum effectiveness. This means that instead of giving direct cash benefits to one child, you are joining forces with other sponsors, partners and members to share the Love of Jesus Christ through church missionary search and relief expeditions to reach children in need so they can overcome a generational curse of poverty.  While some organizations focus on only providing handouts or only helping individually sponsored children, we understand how this approach can divide families and neighborhoods while hampering our efforts.  On some of the Native American Reservations where we work for example, the culture is much more communal and less individualistic, so a community-based approach is much more effective and well received.

How long will my sponsorship last?

Sponsoring children is an ongoing commitment where you’re able to help, as the Bible says, “to prevent not the little ones from coming unto Jesus.”  By committing to help SRM reach children living in poverty, your prayers and monthly support is like inviting another person into your family.

Does Shelter Rock offer child sponsorship in other countries?

God’s love for impoverished children is for all boys and girls, all over the world.  However, because of cultural differences, opportunity, and a heart felt burden for children living in poverty in the United States, we believe the needs of boys and girls outside of the U.S. are best met through other international programs. 

How much does it cost to sponsor a child and how are my donations used?

Support of Shelter Rock through the sponsor a child missions is $30 per month.  Your monthly donation is the same whether your support is for our Native American or Appalachian outreach.  Children do not receive direct cash benefits.  Your monthly gift is pooled for maximum effectiveness while you join with other sponsors, partners and members to share the love of Jesus Christ.  A Love that never fails!     

​What percentage of my donation will help children?

Your donations, sponsorships, tithes and offerings make an enormous difference!  We combine 100% of all financial gifts to support the total operating expenses of Shelter Rock Ministries.  Your monthly sponsorship gift is combined with the donations of other sponsors, partners and members to help us minister the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ to eternally change lives.   

Will my monthly gift help during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for our ministry and outreach to impoverished children and their families.  The crisis has resulted in us being resourceful in ways to best protect vulnerable children in the communities in which they live and our missionaries.  CDC guidelines for preventing the spread of the coronavirus are essential for helping us to coordinate our continued outreach to those we serve.  Your monthly sponsorship and support helps us continue to share the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ while following CDC guidelines and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.