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• If the event purpose is a work trip to build a playground, every cost needed to build the playground would be acceptable expenses.
• A team is going overseas to help a church rehab a building for services. Allowable expenses might include new windows or flooring materials.
• It the event is to do evangelism in a city or on a campus, paying for participants and locals to do an outing for evangelism purposes would be acceptable.
• A team is going to help a church build relationships in a surrounding community through evangelism and service. Buying groceries to gift to each house in the neighborhood while doing evangelism would be an acceptable expense.

What is Not Allowed

• Expenses not related to the direct purpose of the event are not allowed. This would include items meant to bless a local church just because it feels right or the church asks but it was not part of the original objective of the event.
• Alcohol cannot be purchased using Reliant funds.
• No straight cash or gift cards can be given directly to a foreign individual.

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• A team is going overseas specifically to do evangelism with a local church, and while there the local church asks the team for money for new windows. New windows are not tied to the original purpose of the event so the expense would not be allowed as a reported expense.
• A team is going to help a church build relationships in a surrounding community through evangelism and service. The team is asked by families in the neighborhood for money to buy food to feed their families. The team is not allowed to give cash to them out of the Event Advance. 

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