Why we need money for church plants in hard places?

Ministry needs support and while your prayers are important, your resources are too. Money does not make the world go round and it mustn't be our god, but we will need it for many of the things we want to attempt for the Lord. I take it that's why Jesus and Paul seem to think that ministry requires support (Luke 10:5-8; 1 Timothy 5:18) so that the minister can eat and be sheltered at least. I take it that is why Paul was so grateful for the financial support of the Philippians (Philippians 4:15-16).

When you try to plant churches in hard places, financial support is pretty hard to come by. I think there are two reasons:

1. There are maybe relatively few Christians in the area (hence you're planting) and those that are there probably don't have much money (you're planting in a deprived area!). In other words, it's difficult to generate the sort of money you might need to pay someone a living wage to plant a church and cover other costs. I reckon you might be looking at £40-50,000 a year for one employed person plus church costs. In lots of areas that would be relatively small fry - but in deprived areas it's huge!
2. Christians and churches outside of hard places (which is most of them) give locally and internationally, but often don't give nationally. By this I mean they tend to give to support the local church ministry and they probably recognise the need to give to mission and aid agencies internationally. They may even give nationally to either secular charities or parachurch ministries. And they may even give to support church plants from their own churches. But they are not very likely to see the need to give to those church planting in hard places outside of their area, but in their nation. I reckon I would be more likely to get support from UK Christians and churches if I was planting anywhere but the UK!

So what's the solution? Here's four possibilities:

1. Give up trying to plant churches in hard places. As you know this isn't likely to be my top answer, but I think it's the most likely one to happen.
2. Plant with minimal resources - which probably means not having full-time workers, but tent-maker type workers. It seems like Paul did this sometimes. If you have the relatively speedy results of Paul I could see this being a runner, beyond that I suspect you are looking at a long slow-burn kind of ministry.
3. Use grant-making bodies to support the work. This seems the most common approach, but is probably fairly short-term (i.e. you will get grants for a period of a few years, but after that they may dry up). This puts the pressure on to get self-sustaining churches within a short period of time - particularly difficult in more financially stretched areas.
4. Persuade Christians and churches to give long term to support.

I want to say that solution 4 feels like the best - the most effective and the most linked in to Christian partnership. I would love to see it happen more and there are generous individuals and churches out there who are making it happen.

However, for us the pattern has been solution 2 for several months essentially working for nothing in the hope of 3 and with the potential of some 4 for the future (maybe). As with many such situations solution 2 has a relatively short shelf-life, so unless we can get resources elsewhere then we will revert to solution 1. That's sad, inevitable and one of the reasons churches don't get planted in hard places.

Perhaps you could be part of solution 4 for Rochdale?

--- Update ---

Someone asked how to give to the Rochdale Church Plant. Here's the drill:

At the moment they make a gift to Oldham Bethel Church (https://www.oldhambethelchurch.org.uk/) and make it clear it's for the Rochdale plant.

So that could be:

1. Send a cheque to Oldham Bethel Church with a note saying what it's for.
2. Make a bank transfer or standing order with "Rochdale" as the reference (details available from me)
3. Give online via the webpage for Oldham Bethel Church (https://www.oldhambethelchurch.org.uk/give/). There's no explicit way to say this is for the plant at the moment, so it would need a quick message to the church to make that clear (https://www.oldhambethelchurch.org.uk/get-in-touch/)

(1 and 2 are probably preferred).

Thanks!