WHO WE ARE

Karis is a gospel community on mission, seeking to love our city well and plant gospel-centered churches around the globe. We’re a family that sends our most committed and trained leaders, our close friends, to other states and countries, while we strive to train more leaders in our local body to serve here and send out. We invest in the people here in Columbia who live in community with us, seeking to disciple, nurture, and equip them as whole people who both receive God’s grace and share it with others. We give out of our own funds to local non-profits doing the work of the gospel by serving those in need, and we give substantially and directly to our global partners living on mission around the world. We are working to maintain the facility we’ve been blessed with that serves not only as the headquarters for our mission but also as a home for at least a dozen other organizations and groups doing good things in our city.

WHAT WE NEED

Like many families, organizations, and churches, our income was negatively impacted during the pandemic, and we never fully recovered. Heading into this fiscal year, we set a goal that would allow us to return to doing much of the ministry that was limited during the prior years, while also recognizing we would not be at a pre-pandemic level of giving. However, we are struggling to reach this goal. We project we will be $20,000 short of budgeted giving by the end of the calendar year, and if giving remains the same, we will be $40,000 short by the end of our fiscal year in June. While we pray for God to provide, work diligently to determine what areas of the budget can afford to be revised, and continue to encourage our members to continue their regular and faithful giving, we sure could use some help!

WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you’ve ever been blessed by the people of Karis, if you believe deeply in our mission, or if you simply want to help in a year of need, would you consider making a one-time gift, of any amount you can, to the Karis Fund before the end of December?

And in order to sustain (and grow!) all that we do for years to come, we rely on our regular monthly givers. If you’d like to support us, you can set up an automatically recurring donation, in whatever amount is right for you, at the link below.

Your investment is impacting lives for the gospel in Columbia and around the globe, and if you live in Mid-Missouri, we hope you’ll come be a part of all that God is doing here. Thank you, from your Karis Church family!