Real WORLD

Real SAVIOR

...that your ways may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.

(Psalm 67:2)

Local Missions

Columbia, Illinois & Beyond

Our Students are always sneaking off to help someone in need. From delivering food to tearing down sheds, this group loves to help and serve. Sometimes these missions are planned well in advance. Sometimes it is a phone call that says, "Hey, someone needs our help. What are you doing right now?"

Contact Lonnie if you'd like to be a part of the Local Missions Team.

WARNING!

You will get addicted to helping people!

Christian Activity Center

East Saint Louis, Illinois

For years our students have been volunteering at the Christian Activity Center in East St. Louis, IL (CAC). We currently set aside the first Tuesday of every month from 3:30-5:30pm for this ongoing mission.

Children and youth from 6 to 18 years old pour through CAC's doors every weekday at 3:30pm and stay in their care till 8pm. Each child is offered a healthy after school snack, hot dinner meal, homework help, computer training, fine arts classes, recreation, medical care and life enhancement classes.

We go and hang out with those kids, help them with their home work, play games, and have a great time.

If you have a Love for Kids and a Heart for God, this mission may be right up your alley. Contact Lonnie or any Youth Leader for more information.

Family Mission Trip

Chicago, Illinois

Since 2008 

Each summer, we go on mission - family style. From the young to the young at heart; everybody goes. We do construction projects, Bible Clubs, Sports & Music Camps, and Prayer Walks.

This is an unforgettable cross-cultural experience for the whole family.  For a week, we share Jesus with many different people groups, do a lot of hard work, live in cramped quarters, and return home changed forever.

What is your family doing this summer?

Remodeling a Youth Center

Up Next...

Where ever

God sends us.

Where we've been...

1993  Appalachian Mts.
1994  Chitaqua Indian Res.
1995  Charleston, SC
1996  West Memphis, AR
1997  Jackson, MI
1998  Effingham, IL
1999  Jackson, MI
2000  Nashville, TN
2000  Mobile, AL
2001  Muncie, IN
2002  Jefferson City, MO
2003  Ontario, CA
2004  Birmingham, AL
2004  E. St. Louis, IL
2005 - 2009  St. Louis, MO
2008  Sioux City, IA
2009  Evansville, IN

2010  Moberly, MO
 

What are you doing this summer?

Since 1993

World Changer's Student video

World Changers is a hands on, gettin' dirty summer mission trip for Christian Youth. Every year thousands of youth from around the nation participate in 100's of week long work projects.

Students in middle school through college serve alongside each other to impact communities for the kingdom of God. Projects include painting houses, replacing roofs, and other refurbishment construction work.

Their Mission: to provide Christian youth and adults with opportunities to meet the physical and spiritual needs of others through practical learning experiences that teach servanthood and personal commitment to missions.

Bulgaria

iSalt Team

Since 2008

The 2011 Teams are forming now.

Apply today.

Baptists have been sending adult teams to Bulgaria since 2002. In 2008,  the High School iSalt Team was added. FBC-Columbia sent 4 students on that first trip and we had eleven students on the 2009 team. 
 

For 3 weeks in the summer, our student team shares the love and saving power of Jesus Christ with the people of Bulgaria and they work hand in hand with other youth to serve throughout the country. Their mission activities include:

Serving at the Baptist youth camp,

Teaching through craft, recreation, & Bible study,

Working in local orphanages,

Prayer walking,

Helping local missionaries in their ministries,

Reaching out to the gypsy population,

Sports camps,

Teaching English classes,

And construction work.

This is a huge commitment and a lot of work for our students and leaders, but it is well worth it. It is well known that students grow deeper  and more grounded in their faith while on foreign missions then any other single event. Everyone works hard right up until it is time to go, preparing for the trip, studying the Bulgarian language and culture, learning missionary skills and raising money to pay for the trip.

Check out the  iSalt website for more information.

Has God placed a mission on your heart?

We've saved a spot for it right here.

Contact our

Missions Committee

 to get started.