“Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.”
Revelation 3:8Picture a small church on the edge of a town. Once it was full on Sunday mornings. Today, perhaps fifteen people come. Most are elderly. The young families moved to the cities years ago.
They still sing. They still pray for their town. But every month the same quiet fear returns: can we pay the electricity this month? The water? The caretaker?
When the answer is finally no, the doors close. And once a church closes, it almost never opens again. The building is sold or falls into ruin, and the last Christian witness in that place goes dark.
A small cost with an eternal weight
The amounts involved are often small by the standards of a single family in a wealthy country — the cost of a few meals out each month. Yet for a tiny congregation, they are impossible.
That is why we began. We do not want the door of Jesus to close for even one believer. Through our Keeping Church Doors Open program, we help struggling congregations with the bills that keep the lights on and the doors unlocked.
The steadiest help is monthly help
Because bills come every month, this work depends most of all on monthly givers. We call them Doorkeepers, after Psalm 84:10: "I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness."
A Doorkeeper's gift arrives quietly every month. It lets a pastor plan ahead. It lets an old woman keep walking to the church where she was baptised, married, and where she will one day be prayed for at her funeral.
If the Lord puts it on your heart, would you become a Doorkeeper today?
Keeping Church Doors Open
Where only a few Christians remain, we help pay electricity, water and upkeep so the church never has to close.
