Benevolence
On the first Sunday of alternating months, in addition to our weekly offering collection, Chandler Bible Church collects a special benevolence offering for funds to be used to assist members of the Chandler and surrounding community, both within and outside the church body, with financial needs. These funds are typically used to assist recipients with housing, utility, medical, transportation, and food needs. If you have a need that we may be able to assist you with, please call the church office.

Food Pantry
Chandler Bible Church keeps a food pantry stocked with “kits” of groceries that include approximately one week’s worth of meals for a family of 4. If we can share one of these kits with you, please call the church office.

Feed the Hungry
The program, originally started by another church in the valley, is to
provide a meal to people in need each Saturday of the month at Moeur Park in Tempe. Chandler Bible Church has the pleasure of helping with this event on the first Saturday of each month. We gather food donations from people in the church and local businesses to help provide a meal for about 110 to 130 people. There are many people in the church and other organizations who help serve the people at the park. There are many activities throughout the month and especially on the first Saturday to help prepare for this event, but the main activity starts around 5:00pm at the church and we are back at the church by 8:00pm for cleanup. Our program has expanded to include clothing, personal hygiene products, and one-day bus passes when these items are available or funded.

Opportunities to serve in the program throughout the month include collecting food and funds from local businesses, delivering letters to businesses for donations and soliciting new sponsors for donations.

On the Saturday of the event, we are always able to use assistance with donations of food, food preparation, coordination at the church, coordination at the park and with prayer and service on-site at the park.

This program continues to exist because of the grace of God and the efforts of those who are involved on a monthly basis.

Missionaries to ASU International Students
Chandler Bible Church supports Ben and Aleyamma, who were appointed by Mission to the Americas in 1983, and started their ministry as Campus Ambassadors in 1984. They are both natives of Kerala, India. At Arizona State University, the Josephs have the opportunity to minister among the more than 4,000 students who have come to the U.S. from over 140 different nations. Around eighty percent of these students are from the 10/40 window, the least evangelized parts of the world. Many of these students will hold positions of leadership when they return to their homeland.

Ben says, “We are fortunate to have the world come to our doorstep – a foreign mission field in America. There may be no better opportunity for world evangelization than that of reaching International students for Jesus Christ. Not only do they represent a potent missionary force as they return to their homelands, but the opportunity for open interaction is often much greater on a University Campus than in their native countries.”

Ministry is orchestrated through a variety of activities and events, such as airport pick-up, and hospitality ministry, monthly activities where students can meet other students and American families, Bible studies, and “host-family” programs which provide a “home away from home” sense for students and a great opportunity for believers from area churches to participate in world missions.

Ben was raised in a Christian home, but didn’t come to know Christ in until he came to the United States. In 1972, while attending Southwestern College, Ben gave his life to the Lord and shortly thereafter felt himself called to Christian ministry. While attending Denver Seminary in 1975, Ben married Aleyamma, who had accepted the Lord when she was fourteen.