Local Missionary Work

On Sunday evening March 12, 2006 an F3 tornado ravaged Webster County leaving a reported 61 residences
damaged, 14 residences destroyed, 15 commercial buildings damaged, 1 commercial building destroyed,
54 barns and outbuildings damaged, and 49 barns and outbuildings destroyed. Some of our own church
members and many Webster County families were touched by this storm.

Marshfield Church of Christ immediately took action following in the will of our Lord by helping those who had suffered the brunt of the tornado with food, clothing, physical assistance, and goods necessary in cleaning up and rebuilding.  Designated a Disaster Relief Center our Church received much needed supplies and members got to work dispensing brooms, mops, cleaning products, wheelbarrows, food, clothing, pillows, blankets, and more to those in need of assistance. Thank you to all who have taken part in this local relief effort.


  • The members of our congregation are active in our community.

    • On their own some of our members attend public meetings in order to help serve their community in positive ways,
    working when possible toward community betterment and promoting and encouraging Christian goals and standards within the community. Many are involved in personal evangelism for those in the community who express an interest in personal Bible study. Individual members also have studies in their homes and will go to the homes of those who prefer to study the Bible
    on a one on one basis.
  • A storage shed is being built to house our Disaster Relief Center supplies to help our community with needed relief in the event of disasters.
  • Church members sing at one of the local nursing homes once a month

    • and their are those whoon their own visit the nursing homes to share Christ and lend genuine friendship and encouragement to those living there. Our church also participates in the "meals on wheels" program carrying meals to the elderly living in the community.  There are also those who as individuals help church members and other elderly of our community living at home but in need of assistance.
  • Vacation Bible school and our youth activities are designed to be an outreach program

    • for the youth of our community. Many individual members provide rides for children who wish to  attend  Bible School and church services but  are in need of transportation.
  • Our ladies in Ladies Bible class provide service where they are needed in the church and the community which require more than one person to implement.

    • Examples are:  collecting food items for a children's home, Fair Haven Children's Home,  in a neighboring community, making baby bibs for new
    mothers in the community, preparing Bread of Life (small loaves of bread)to welcome visitors and "Sunshine Baskets" for the sick or grieving, or repairing church hymnals.
  • Our congregation also helps to support local TV broadcast of church of Christ gospel programming.
  • The continued updating and maintaining of a presense on the web through his website
  • Individual and group studies are on available in homes and on the Internet through individuals in our congregation.

    • Our members are involved in many more individual projects at work in our community, but these are just a few.


    Jas 1:27*  Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
    Gal 2:9-10  and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised; 10only they would have us remember the poor, which very thing I was eager to do.

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