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Handiworks                            One particular day in a year is set aside to contribute different sorts of handiwork products for the Church fund.

Faith promise                          Church members pledge to contribute a certain amount for Church fund.

Hunting                                   One particular day is set aside for hunting and fishing for Church fund.

Fund Raising Campaign         A certain preacher is invited to campaign all Church members to worship and serve the Lord along with free-will gift to the Lord for Church fund.

Offering                                  In every worship service, there is collection of offering for Church fund.

First fruit                                 Every first fruit and every first born of domestic animal are set aside for Church fund.

New crops offering                 First Sunday of October is celebrated as collection of offering from farms and sold for Church fund.

Harvest offering                      Last Sunday of November is celebrated as Harvest offering from all the products of farms for Church fund. 

Mission Work of Mara Evangelical Church

Throughout her long journey, the Mara Evangelical Church had come a crossed four revival experiences in the whole. This revival movement motivated the Mara people to have an enthusiastic mind for the mission whereas the Church understood that the heart of the Church of Christ is the mission of God.  Hereby, she has been actively doing her Cross-Cultural Mission since 1966 and at present she is working amongst the non-Mara speaking ethnic groups in Chin State and Rakhine State, Myanmar. They are:

        i.            The Khumi field

      ii.            The Daai Lemrochin field

    iii.            The Myo @ Khami field

    iv.            The Mru field

      v.            The Ashochin field

The mission office is called Evangelical Mission, situated in Sittway, Rakhine State. Currently, there are 76 missionaries, 11 primary schools and one middle school in different Mission fields. There are about 5182 believers in numbers, 22 local Churches in the Mission fields. Our church is going to celebrate her mission golden Jubilee in the year 2016. The tragedy of mission work is show as below:

Mission Work Report (1968-2005)

Mission Fields	5
Local Churches	81
Pastorate Areas	17
Families (Houses)	637
Baptized Members	4424
New Believers	225
Ordained Pastors	21
Pro. Pastors	8
Evangelists	11
Teachers	4
Project Workers	15
Missionaries	33
Bible Students	8
Church	35
Boarding Houses	2
Middle School	2
Primary School	11
Office/Quarter	6
Middle Students	93
Primary School Students	200

Lorrain Theological College & Mission Studies Centre

Lorrain Theological College & Mission Studies Centre (LTC &MSC) is a theological institution established by the Mara Evangelical Church in Myanmar in 2003, bearing the name of the first missionary Rev. Reginald Arthur Lorrain who came into Maraland and founded the Mara Church in 1907. It is located at No. 65/B, Marga Road, Phawkan Block, Insein Township, Yangon.

The Aims and Objectives of LTC & MSC

        i.            To train students for Christian ministry as pastors, evangelists, missionaries and lay-leaders.

      ii.            To equip students for promoting contextual skill and insight of tribal theology to serve the Church and society.

    iii.            To kindle mission and ecumenical spirit; and equip students with contextual mission strategies.

    iv.            To promote students for the build-up of the holistic development with the Word of God.

Mission Statement of LTC&MSC

“The Church, being rooted in the Reformed faith, is committed to build up the wholeness of human being by fulfilling the Great Commission for the service to God and the People.”