Building churches and church Facilities
Churches are built out of concrete block and include a sanctuary and classrooms for
Sunday School and church activities.
1. We have purchased a new property to move El Shaddai to a new permanent home. The project will include construction of a parsonage, sanctuary and Sunday school rooms.
2. We are also in the process of rebuilding a church and clinic at Vida Nueva church in San Salvador. The current property is owned the Evangelical Methodist Church of El Salvador and prior to being a church was a restaurant. we envision erecting a new two story building the will house both a church and a clinic.
1. We have purchased a new property to move El Shaddai to a new permanent home. The project will include construction of a parsonage, sanctuary and Sunday school rooms.
2. We are also in the process of rebuilding a church and clinic at Vida Nueva church in San Salvador. The current property is owned the Evangelical Methodist Church of El Salvador and prior to being a church was a restaurant. we envision erecting a new two story building the will house both a church and a clinic.
construction of houses
We construct simple homes of concrete block for families who own property but either live in overcrowded or sub-standard conditions. The homes built by SMP are simple 36 square meter homes built from a government approved plan. Houses are built for both church members and non church members. There is an application and review process to ensure that the families being serviced can not obtain a home through any other means. The cost to build a home with SMP is $4,500 which covers the costs of materials and local professional labor.
BiBle School
There is no shortage of children in El Salvador and they are an important part of SMP's ministry. All teams are welcome to do bible school while working in El Salvador. Children go school half days (either in the morning or the afternoon) so any time of year is ideal to have bible school. Teams will need to provide their own material and supplies.
Medical Clinics
The Methodist Church in El Salvador
maintains a Methodist Medical Clinic in Ahuachapan and provides facilities for
government doctors in La Providencia and Roca Eterna. The Methodist
Clinic seeks to help people who are in need of medical services but that do not
have the resources to pay to be seen at a traditionally staffed clinic in El
Salvador. The Methodist clinic only charges $3.00 to see a doctor, which
is about 1/3 the cost of most clinics. Medicines are always dispensed
free of charge. The clinics are always in need of medicines please
let us know if you or your church would like to help keep the pharmacy
stocked and we will send you the information you need. In addition we
host medical mission teams. We arrange for medical teams to set up mobile
clinics in impoverished communities and provide medical services for
free. Medical teams are responsible for providing their own supplies and
medicines.
Feeding & Evangelism Program
If a team chooses we will purchase staple dry goods that the team will repackage into large plastic bags. The teams then distributes the food to needy families usually in communities that we are currently working in. The food is typically distributed in the form of home visit so that the team members will get a chance to talk and pray with the families that are receiving the food as well as invite them to worship with us. Any bags that are not given are put into the churches food bank for distribution by Methodist churches throughout Western El Salvador.
The Good Samaritan house
The good Samaritan House is a house that the Methodist Church of El Salvador rents close to the hospital in Ahuachapan. People from the surrounding communities that come to the regional hospital often find themselves stranded in Ahuachapan as the last bus out of town leaves at 6pm. The hospital staff refers those in need of a place to stay the night to the Methodist church. A representative from the church meets with the people and takes them to the house where they are allowed to stay the night.