Why does MMO "limit ourselves" to working only with local churches?

There are many reasons, but one of the incredible advantages to our calling and core value of being local church centric is the fact that churches know their communities better than we do. Over and over, we could tell you stories about being able to reach people that we otherwise would never have known about. Most recently, we learned of an isolated community with pressing physical needs through our host pastor and his wife Moisés and Madelyn Escobar in Honduras. Madelyn shared the following about this community: "An informal settlement was founded by people from La Mosquitia, a community in the Gracias a Dios department in the western part of the country. Upon arriving in Roatán in need of a home, they occupied the hillside area now known as the Aldín Wester neighborhood. However, because the settlement began as an unauthorized occupation, electricity and water utility companies have refused to provide services to the community. As a church, we have served this community by sharing the Gospel, running children's clubs, providing snacks, and striving to be a blessing to them. We still wish to do more for this community by offering support in any way we can." The church sent a mobile team of our volunteers along with church people to invite members of this community to our clinics. They transported them in vans because most had no way to arrive otherwise. We were grateful to be able to serve a community we never would have known about or had access to if our host church had not already had a finger on the pulse of the community and been committed to help those most in need.