Your Gift Restores Hope in Crisis
Every dollar helps families recover, restores dignity, and shares the love of Christ where it’s needed most.
Give a gift using the form on the right to put your compassion into action.
Why Your Gift Matters
For more than 40 years, Christ In Action has responded to disasters across the U.S.—clearing debris, serving meals, and sharing Christ’s love when families need it most. Every response is offered at no cost to survivors. And as a debt-free ministry with no government funding, every dollar you give equips volunteers, restores dignity, and brings hope in Jesus’ name.
100% Mission Impact
Zero administrative costs. Every dollar fuels disaster response and ministry on the ground.
40+ Years of Service
Trusted experience responding to disasters nationwide, from 9/11 to hurricanes, floods, and wildfires.
Volunteers in Action
Your gift provides meals, tools, and resources, enabling volunteers to serve families with compassion.
“Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
— 2 Corinthians 9:7
FUELING HOPE
ONE GIFT AT A TIME
Every dollar you give fuels real action in the field — from meals and fuel to chainsaws and safety gear. Together, these gifts bring families hope in the middle of their hardest days, reminding them they are not forgotten and that Christ’s love is near.
Fuels and oils a chainsaw for a full day of debris removal.
Provides a volunteer with meals for a week while serving families in crisis.
Powers a skid steer to help clear one home impacted by disaster.
Equips a volunteer with essential tools, safety gear, and supplies.
Muck and guts a home damaged by flooding or storm debris.
Fuels, repairs, and maintains one vehicle or piece of heavy equipment during deployment.
*These numbers reflect averages from a two-month deployment.
Faith in action changes everything.
Each gift helps families recover and reminds them they’re not forgotten.
Every Dollar Goes Straight to the Mission
Christ In Action has no administrative salaries. Every gift fuels disaster relief and ministry — filling gas tanks, putting tools in volunteers’ hands, and sending chaplains to pray with families in their darkest hours. Your generosity restores both lives and hearts with the hope of Christ.
Where Every Dollar Goes.
Boots on the Ground
Repairs, travel, fuel, and supplies that put our teams in disaster zones quickly to serve families in crisis.
Protection & Readiness
Insurance and utilities that safeguard our volunteers, equipment, and facilities so we’re ready the moment disaster strikes.
Mission Support
Technology and secure payment systems that connect donors to the mission and keep deployments running smoothly.
Compliance & Outreach
Licenses, fees, and outreach essentials that ensure integrity, accountability, and the ability to mobilize more churches and volunteers.
*The entire Christ In Action staff is made up of missionaries and volunteers. Your support fuels the mission, not overhead.
A Glimpse of the Cost and Impact Behind Every Deployment
$37,000+
on average, moves a fleet of heavy equipment into a disaster zone to clear the way for recovery.
130+ households
on average, receive cleanup and recovery support in a single deployment — plus prayer and care from chaplains in their darkest hours.
$15,000+ saved
on average, in demolition and repair costs for each homeowner served by volunteer crews.
These numbers reflect averages from a two-month deployment — and behind each one are families helped, prayers answered, and lives restored.
Other Ways to Give
Leave a legacy of hope.
Through planned and estate giving, you can extend Christ’s love into the future—helping families rebuild their lives, restoring communities, and ensuring the gospel is shared when disaster strikes. These gifts go beyond dollars; they become chainsaws clearing debris, hands offering relief, and prayers shared with families in crisis. A lasting testimony of faith and compassion, carried forward in action.
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Planned giving is a way to carry your faith forward by including Christ In Action in your will, trust, or other financial plans. It allows you to bless future generations while also caring for your loved ones—and in many cases, it may even reduce taxes.
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Wills & Trusts – Leave a portion of your estate to Christ In Action.
Retirement Accounts – Designate CIA as a beneficiary of your IRA or 401(k).
Life Insurance – Name CIA as a beneficiary of your policy.
Charitable Trusts – Create income for yourself or your family while supporting CIA’s mission.
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Every planned gift fuels disaster relief deployments, chaplaincy, and training that bring Christ’s love to those in crisis. Your legacy becomes chainsaws clearing debris, chaplains praying with survivors, meals served in Jesus’ name, and lives restored with hope.
Turn your car into compassion in action.
That unused car, truck, or RV in your driveway can become more than metal—it can become hope on the ground after disaster strikes. By donating your vehicle, you help Christ In Action deploy faster, equip volunteers, and serve families in crisis with the love of Christ. It’s simple, free, and may even qualify you for a tax deduction.
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Vehicle donation is a way to turn your unused or unwanted car, truck, motorcycle, or RV into meaningful support for Christ In Action. Whether it’s resold or recycled, every donation fuels ministry on the ground.
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Cars & Trucks – Running or not, we can accept most vehicles.
Motorcycles & RVs – Larger donations can often be arranged for pick-up.
Non-Running Vehicles – Even if your vehicle no longer works, it can still be recycled to support disaster relief.
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Your donated vehicle can help Christ In Action serve on the front lines—many may be added to our fleet, giving us wheels on the ground to deploy faster and reach more families in crisis. Others help fund the mission by providing the resources to equip volunteers, clear debris, and share Christ’s love where it’s needed most. Every donation becomes a tool for ministry and a testimony of compassion in action.
Share Jesus’ love through our Amazon Wishlist
Sometimes the most practical gifts carry the deepest love. By purchasing items from our Amazon Wishlist, you’re putting tools and supplies directly into the hands of volunteers serving in Jesus’ name—and helping families begin the journey of recovery after disaster.
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Our Amazon Wishlist is a simple way to give tangible items—tools, equipment, and household essentials—that directly support Christ In Action’s ministry in the field.
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Browse the list, choose the items you’d like to purchase, and they’ll be shipped directly to Christ In Action. Every box delivered becomes provisions for volunteers in disaster zones.
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From gloves and tarps to kitchen supplies, these items equip volunteers to serve with excellence and open doors for ministry. Your gift becomes an expression of Christ’s love in action—meeting practical needs and pointing people to eternal hope.
Be the Difference When Disaster Strikes
Every moment matters. Your generosity and prayers put volunteers on the ground, tools in their hands, and Christ’s love at the center of crisis recovery. Together, we can bring hope where it’s needed most.