Ohio Charity Reaches Many With Its Work

Christian Aid Ministries is able to offer a different kind of help to those in need, thanks to the skills possessed by some of its biggest supporters, the Amish and Mennonites in rural Ohio, reports The Plain Dealer, in Cleveland.

The organization, one of the country’s largest charitable groups, sent volunteers to areas devastated by natural disasters in recent years, where their construction knowledge and skilled carpentry proved a big help, the paper reports.

“They don’t even drive a car, but they’ll fly halfway around the world to help,” David Troyer, the 54-year-old general director of Christian Aid, tells the newspaper. “The Lord works through his people.”

Since its start in 1981, the organization, in Berlin, Ohio, has sent 15 million pounds of supplies around the world annually to people in need. It has programs in several countries and has sent its volunteers to countless others.

It ranked No. 76 on The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s most recent Philanthropy 400, the paper reports.

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