Stretching a dollar

I read a few minutes ago about a First Baptist Church that is planning to spend $130 million dollars on a really fancy building renovation. The pictures look great. The building will have green space and nifty fountains and glass breezeways. I'm not claiming to know how a church should spend its money. I don't know all the statistics, but what I do know is that the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has missionaries trained and wanting to go serve internationally, but there is insufficient funding. I know that there are communities all over the United States who need to hear the truth of the Gospel, but there isn't money to fund these either. A missionary is paid around $40,000 a year. $130 million is funding for 3,250 missionaries for one year. I heard about this area in South Asia where there have been bad flooding and a food shortage. The Christians there are a small minority. In this area, everyone only takes care of those who share their religious views and because the Christian community is so small, they don't have many people to help them. A missionary there watched a Christian woman hold her son as he died from starvation in her arms because they would not recant their belief in Christ, so their neighbors wouldn't help them. This happened this month. I can only imagine how much food $130 million could buy in parts of the world that are desperate for help.

I'm no expert; I just wonder if there are other places to invest this money...