This Upsets and Disturbs Me to No End

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I just saw a news item on the local news. It began as one of those "feel-good" stories about a woman who started helping others as a way to cope with her son's suicide. Her assistance ballooned from there into a major clothing ministry for low-income individuals. That's the "feel-good" part. There's another part of this story that upsets and disturbs me to no end. The lady had started helping others out of her house. From there, she moved to a space at a local church. And there is the problem: you see, the church is being remodeled, and she and her ministry are being forced out. Did I miss something? Didn't the one who all these Christian churches claim to be following tell his followers that they were to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, etc? (Matthew 25) She's doing what Scripture commands, but the church that she's headquartered in tells her she needs to find a new location because they're upgrading the facility? It seems to me that if churches would do their Biblically-ordained job of caring for the underprivileged then we wouldn't need a welfare system in the US. There's nothing in that passage referenced above about feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, etc. that mentioned "building bigger and better buildings." Before the Great Depression it was the nation's churches who cared for the poor. Now the government does the churches' jobs while they build more and bigger buildings. What is wrong with this picture?