Just before Jesus left this earth, He gave His disciples one last thing to do. He told them to go, teach, baptize, and teach. The church is meant to go. We are to teach--tell about Jesus and how He can save. We are to baptize those who join us. Finally, we are to teach. This teach means to teach about Christ, the way He lived and what He expects of us. We are to begin with those around our locale and branch out to our state, nation, and world. When we can't go ourselves, missionaries are the Biblical answer - those who will go in our stead.
We do a Vacation Bible School as an outreach to our community, specifically geared to educate children about Jesus. We have mission awareness on certain Wednesday nights, when we learn about specific missionaries in the field both home and abroad. Our kid's Backpack Ministry helps kids who have need of basic school supplies, in co-operative effort with the SBC. We support state, national, and international missionaries through co-operative effort with the Southern Baptist Convention, and also help as needed with certain Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts, which can range from food, disaster relief, meeting critical needs, and also international children's services.


We recently had the privilege to help provide the victims of Hurricane Helene with food, clothing, and needed supplies. Batavia and the surrounding areas answered and the response was nothing less than amazing. We wish to thank all involved for all of the kind donations. Part of the items were picked up and headed for North Carolina within the same week. The rest of the items were delivered to a church who then transferred the balance of collected items to North Carolina. None of this would have been possible without the support of our community.




Loading them up & shipping them out






Pictures below show our annual backpack drive. We gather supplies to fill backpacks with food, school supplies, personal hygiene items, toys, clothing, a Bible, along with the Christmas story. We pray these packs will get to the proper child and maybe make Christmas a bit brighter.


Everyone pitches in to load them up for transport to distribution center








Delivered to distribution point. First packs of the day. Backpacks and sleeping bags for the kids.

