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| FCC On Mission |
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Welcome to the "Serve the World" section of our website. To serve the world is
to be "On Mission" wherever you go and whatever you do. We are on mission at
work, at home, in our community, and to the world. To be on mission is to Care
Intentionally, Give Generously, and Love Randomly. The purpose of this section
is to better inform you of ways that you can do these three things. By
familiarizing you with different ministries that are supported by our church or
some of its life groups, we can give you a place to start.
You can get involved in some of these ministries either through financial
support or through serving at one of these ministries. You can also get
involved by going on one of our scheduled mission trips (either domestic or
abroad), or you can participate in one of our church-wide sponsored projects.
Check back often for information or updates on what is going on and how you can
get involved. For those who want to get involved, we want to try to make that
process easy for you by giving you information and a person to contact.
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What's Going On Now
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Please continue to be in prayer for our upcoming mission trips for 2010. If you
are interested in going on the Amazon River Trip in Brazil in 2012 (see
International page for more details) or would like more information about the
trip, please contact Tom Schory.
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| Shiloh Christian Children's Ranch Mission
Trip: June 13th - 17th |
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First Christian Church will be sending a team of 22 people to the Shiloh
Christian Children's Ranch in Kahoka, Missouri from Sunday, June 13 -
Thursday, June 17, 2010. The team will be working on three different projects
while they are there: plumbing a chicken coop, winterizing a goat shed, and
removing and installing a row of mailboxes. While there, the team will be
completely integrated into the mission going on at the ranch. They will be
staying in the homes with the families, eating their meals with them, and
participating in devotionals together. The team will also be working alongside
the children on the various projects. What an awesome opportunity it will be
for them to not only see up close the work being done at Shiloh, but also to
participate in it firsthand!
The purpose of Shiloh Christian Children's Ranch is to provide Christian homes
for abused/neglected and other children and to meet the spiritual, emotional,
educational, social and physical needs of each child. They are a Christian
organization, seeking to present Christ as Lord through their words and deeds.
The staff and board of directors are Christian.
The ranch contains homes with full-time parents to provide a healthy, family
environment. They are 100% privately funded, mainly through churches and
individuals, receiving no state or federal money for this ministry. They
provide ministry to children placed at Shiloh without any fee charged to the
children's families. Being in a rural location, they provide a variety of
opportunities for work and play, which they believe both activities to be
therapeutic to the children. For more information about this ministry, you can
visit their website at www.shilohranch.org.
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| Sonlight Ministries, Port-de-Paix, Haiti Trip
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Seven members of First Christian Church went to Sonlight Ministries in
Port-de-Paix, Haiti on a short-term mission trip from April 23 - May 1, 2010.
The members of the team were Roye and Pat Wilson, Larry and Elanor Brawner,
Chris Kiger, and Tom and Leigh Anne Schory. This was a wonderful experience to
see God at work with the Alexander family (missionaries at work there) and the
Haitian people.
While there, Roye and Larry worked on some construction on the new SonCenter
building that Sonlight Ministries is building across the street from their
academy, which educates students from pre-school through 12th grade. Once
completed, the SonCenter will provide sanctuary space for 800 people for the
growing congregation of Sonlight Church with an additional 300 seats in the
balcony. In addition, it will provide extra classrooms and office space, a
medical and dental clinic for visiting professionals, and the first-ever indoor
baptistry in Port-de-Paix and possibly in all of Haiti.
At the Sonlight Academy, Pat, Elanor, Tom, and Chris all helped with one-on-one
practice with conversational English for the students, and Leigh Anne did
reading evaluations with the Kindergarteners. In addition, Pat and Elanor
helped teach language classes, Chris taught some Bible classes, and Tom taught
some Health classes. Elanor also helped organize the 4th grade classroom
library. Leigh Anne helped out in the office getting things ready for
graduation, including stamping seals on diplomas and putting them in their
covers, designing the graduation programs, stuffing invitations, typing out
scripts, etc. The team also participated in a career panel for the high school
students where they talked about their different professions and the
educational requirements of each. Overall, the trip was a huge success. For
further details about Sonlight Ministries, click on the International tab at
the top of this page.
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| First Christian Garden Ministry |
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The First Christian Garden Ministry raises produce for local families in need.
In 2009, over 1,500 pounds of produce from this garden, located next to Freeman
Lake, were donated to local families. Our goal is to double that figure in
2010, but we need your help. We are currently looking for volunteers to help in
this ministry, so if you have a passion for gardening and would like to help,
please email Doug Mitchell at dmitchell@firstchristianonline.com.
For more information, you can contact Doug Mitchell or call Hank or Bunni
Hinton at (270) 307-2246.
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