Mission
Brunstad Christian Church is actively engaged in missionary and humanitarian work around the globe. According to their official website, they are careful not to mix their missionary work and humanitarian aid in an effort to ensure that people are not influenced to a particular teaching or religion simply by the material goods the missionaries have to offer. Moreover, the church states that it believes in "preaching the gospel without necessarily giving people hope of better living conditions" and, for this reason, "channel money or material goods through social or public organisations where distribution of goods takes place according to need, and not according to religious persuasion".
Over several decades, the church has driven the mission work in this way, contributing millions of dollars, among other places, behind the iron curtain before it fell. They have traditionally been a tentmakers mission, where the missionary who has been sent out takes up regular employment in the area they are posted.
The church is in the process of building conference centers in several foreign countries. As of January 2008, conference centers were under construction in India, Romania, Kenya, Ukraine and Cameroon.
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