Following His Commands...
Matthew 28:18 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.
This month's issue includes...
- Missions Fundraiser Event
- Women’s Ministry mission opportunities
- Church-wide mission opportunities
- National and international mission trip opportunities and updates on recent trips.
- Missions Spotlight -Truth’s Community Clinic
Annual Missions Fundraiser:
Silent Auction and Live Cake Auction
SAVE THE DATE!
March 23rd, Saturday
Auction Preview at 4:30pm,
Dinner at 5:30 pm in the Fellowship Building
Join us for our annual fundraiser for our Missions Ministry. One of our most popular events of the year! You’ll have the chance to participate in a silent auction and bid on everything from gift baskets to garden accessories and more! As a finale, you can duke it out with your friends over the most delicious sweets during the cake auction. This is an event you don’t want to miss! Our summer mission team members will be serving dinner.
Dinner Includes: Soup, Salad and Dessert
We would love to know if you are coming, click the sign up button to register for the event.
Local Mission Opportunities This Month
Women’s Ministry Missions
Jambos Pajama Drive
Evan’s Box – Angel Babies
Evan’s Box is a plastic box or bin with a lid that is filled with handmade items such as hats, wraps, blankets, and other keepsakes for angel babies (those born without a heartbeat) between 12 and 22 weeks. This box is placed in a hospital that provides care to mothers and babies. Angel babies can then have something cozy and just their size to rest in, and the grieving families can have a beautiful keepsake.
Are you looking for opportunities to use your crochet, knitting, or sewing skills to help others?
These boxes are donated in memory of Evan James Chrysler who was born November 8, 2023, at 4 in and 22 grams. Help is needed to fill boxes with handmade keepsake items for local hospitals, funeral homes, and pregnancy resource centers. Crochet, knit, and sewing patterns can be found at the link below. Please contact Nicole Chrysler at [email protected] if you would like to help make these items.
Local Ministries
Church-wide Mission Opportunities
Feeding Hearts Food Pantry
The Feeding Hearts Food Ministry has had a strong start to 2024. We’ve been blessed with an abundance of donations, as well as guests needing assistance.
- 114 boxes have been distributed
- We’ve had the pleasure of serving 103 households and impacting 637 people
Our focus remains to meet families’ physical needs with food, but more importantly, share the Gospel with all who enter our doors.
There are several opportunities to help with the food pantry:
- Pray for the ministry and the families being served
- Help spread the word in your community
- Volunteer during distribution or packing days
- Food and/or monetary donations
**We are in need of instant mashed potatoes, peanut butter, tuna helper, and dry beans.
For more information: [email protected]
Click here for Food Pantry Needs List
National Prayer for North American Missions
Prayer guides for the Week of Prayer for North American missions will be distributed through March and available at the welcome desks. This mission is supported through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and the Cooperative Program.
Every year, SBC churches observe the Week of Prayer for North American missions by praying for missionaries, their ministries and their families. Because these missionaries make Jesus known in places all over the U.S. and Canada where there’s little or no gospel witness, they experience opposition and they battle loneliness and discouragement. That’s why they need your prayers.
This year, the official date for the Week of Prayer is March 3-10. Your church can choose this week or any other time during the Easter season to participate. Your prayers and gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering will fuel their work. The offering goal for this year is $75 million.
Prayer Guides will be distributed Sunday mornings and available in the Welcome Centers through March.
These missions are supported through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and the Cooperative Program.
For more information: [email protected]
Love In Action
2024 Mission Opportunities
It’s not too late to sign up for a summer mission trip: Maine, Guatemala, and Kenya
Looking for a summer thrill? How about joining one of Ivy Creek’s mission teams for an epic adventure? Missed the commitment deadline? There are a few spots left, you can still sign up now for a summer escapade to Maine, Guatemala, or Kenya!
Let the globetrotting begin!
God does not call the equipped, He equips the called
Kenya
August 16- 27th
- House visits
- School Visits – teaching bible stories
- Church Visits
Maine
Late June/Early July
- Phippsburg, Maine
- Soccer camps
- Evangelism
Guatemala
Intergenerational Trip
Early July 2024, 7 day trip
- Construction trip/Women’s Bible Studies
- October 2024, 7 day trip
Marriage Conference and children’s program
February 2025
Missions In A Month
Ivy Creek Missionaries - Home & Abroad
Mamie Outler
Truth’s Community Clinic
Sharing Truth Through Medical and Dental Missions
In 2003 a small group of visionaries from Hebron Baptist Church saw a need for a free clinic that would minister to the health and spiritual needs of those in our community who were of low income, had no insurance, and had little or no hope of receiving the health care they needed for their families. The Truth’s Community Clinic was founded 20 years ago, a group physicians, nurses, and dentists who saw a need for a medical and dental clinic for the uninsured and underserved. Initially, patients were seen in the office of Dr.Hoyt Gazaway under the name Hebron Community Health Center for a couple of months.
God blessed this group with a free office space on Chestnut Street in Lawrenceville. They were there until 2014 when they moved to their current location at 250 Langley Drive in Lawrenceville. They changed their name to Truth’s Community Clinic to better reflect the many volunteers from churches and organizations that serve along side the clinic.
Patients are seen on the first and third Tuesday evenings and the second and fourth Monday mornings.
Truth’s Community Clinic provide patients with complete labs, medications, and women’s health (pap smears and mammograms). The cost for a visit is $20 a visit but will provide care if the patient is unable to pay.
If you’d like to find out more about the Truth’s Community Clinic
or are considering volunteering
Ivy Creek Missionaries
