Mission Trips 2014 F i r s t B a p t i s t C h u r c h G e o r g e t o w n, T X The goal of every mission trip FBCgT sponsors or promotes is not only ministering alongside a local missionary or a local church for follow-up after we come back home, but to also see spiritual growth in the life of the one who goes on mission. With our full-fledged partnerships, our involvement is threefold: prayer support, financial support, and taking mission teams. We also stay involved for a longenough period of time to see what God is doing and to make a difference for the Kingdom. Charlotte Watson, Minister of Missions First Baptist Church 1333 W. University Ave. Georgetown TX 78628 512.869.2586 cwatson@fbcgt.org
Mexico - Construction Location: Reynosa, Mexico Target Participants: Adult men, 18 and over Scope: This mission trip is being conducted in association with HERO (Helping Everyone Remember Orphans) Makers, Inc. HERO Makers is a Christ centered ministry dedicated to helping children at risk in Mexico for over 25 years. Men of all skill levels are needed to help these children at risk through group home construction projects, repairs and maintenance, preparing meals at children s homes, as well as, distributing gifts. It is a very easy mission trip to attend. It s just across the border from McAllen, Texas in Mexico. Bring a brother and become a HERO in the life of a child who desperately needs to know God s love through your actions. For more detailed information about HERO Makers, its purpose, mission trip descriptions or mission trip blogs and pictures go to www.heromakers.org. The mission trip fee covers room and board. All construction materials and tools are supplied by Hero Makers. Cost: $600, plus shared transportation costs of under $100. Date of Interest Meeting: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 3 5 pm, E2.102 Dates of Trip: January 22 29, 2014 Team Leader (at FBCgT): Bill O Connell, 214-679- 6552, woconnell@live.com or Allen Palmer, 281-222-2149, brentara@aol.com Alaska 2014 Location: Nome, Alaska Target Participants: Families (includes children, 12 and older) and Adults of all ages; Team Size 10 40 Scope: Join us as we serve the indigenous people and visitors to Nome in The Last Great Race, the infamous Iditarod Sled Dog Race. We will be serving with Alaska Missions and Retreats as they minister and serve through distribution of coffee and hot chocolate to the crowds, working concession stands at an Eskimo Basketball tournament, assisting the Iditarod Race officials, working with the mushers and their dog teams, and many other service and witnessing opportunities. This is not a trip for the faint of heart as it will be very, very cold.
Cost: Approximately $1,900 Date of Interest Meeting: None at this time. Team is full Dates of Trip: March 7-14, 2014 Team Leader: Joe Ward, 512-869-2586, jward@fbcgt. org Ukraine Location: Ukraine Evangelical Theological Seminary in Kiev, Ukraine Target Participants: Both men and women are welcome to be part of the team Scope: Construction. Our primary construction project will be to complete two floors of the new addition to the Hospitality Building. This building houses guests as well as some faculty families. Our team initiated the construction of the four-story addition three years ago and has been working on the project each year since then. We will complete the project this year. Cost: $1,500 Date of Interest Meeting: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 4 pm, E2.107 Dates of Trip: April 5 19, 2014 Team Leader: Larry Maddox, 512-868-3542, lgmaddox2001@yahoo.com Belize Location: Belize Target Participants: Anyone over the age of 10. Medical professionals, people with a desire to do construction, or people with a heart to serve kids. This is also a great family trip for families with kids 10 and older. Scope: We will be working with International Servants as a part of a larger team (approx. 70 people) serving a village in Belize. This is a really great entry level international mission trip. The travel is lighter than most international trips, our accommodations are wonderful and even the official language of the country is English (although not spoken in the village).there are several teams within this trip. There will be a full scale medical clinic where doctors, nurses, NP s, dentists etc can use their skills to serve the Belizeans. This medical clinic is the only medical care most of these
people have in a given year. A typical medical team will serve about 1,000 people over the course of the trip. There are also places for non-medical professionals to help serve within the clinic and the pharmacy. The second team is a construction team that spends the trip focused on building for either the local church or the community. In the past, groups have built parts of the church or large pavilions for the local school. The construction teams have always come home exhausted and excited about how the Lord used them over the course of the week. A third team is the children s team. The village where we will be serving has a school of over 800 kids and as a part of the children s team you get to serve them, play with them, and be a part of sharing the gospel with these kids. If you love having kids hanging off you literally all day long, then this may be the trip for you. There is also a Feed-A-Child program that a few people each year get to be a part of helping and serving meals for kids who do not have food at home. Check out their website for videos and details on the ministry (www.iservants.com). Come join us in being a part of what God is doing in Belize! Cost: $1,600-$1,800 Date of Interest Meeting: January 12, 2014, 6 pm, E2.106 Dates of Trip: May 4 May 10, 2014 Team Leader: Curt Sparkman, 512-869-2586, csparkman@fbcgt.org New York City Location: New York City, NY Target Participants: Adults, Youth, 17 and over Scope: This is FBCgT s fourteenth year to partner with Missionary Taylor Field and Graffiti Ministries as they reach across their city to share Christ and show Christ in tangible ways. The team will serve alongside Graffiti 1 (Lower East Side), Graffiti 3 (Brownsville), and Graffiti 4 (Long Island). Details of exact ministries and the trip schedule are still being finalized. Cost: Approximately $1,100 Date of Interest Meeting: Sunday, February 16, 2014 E2.102 Dates of Trip: May 23 June 1, 2014 Team Leader: Charlotte Watson, 512-869-2586, cwatson@fbcgt.org
Santa Fe, NM Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico Target Participants: Family & Adults, Team Size 12 15 Scope: Our own Marie Rush has moved to Santa Fe and is now working for Rodeo Road Baptist Church. RRBC has invited us to serve alongside them as they host a block party and VBS, June 17 21. VBS workers will be needed for the following classes: Babies (RRBC workers children only), 1 & 2 grade, 3 & 4 grade and 5 & 6 grade, ending with a closing event on Friday night. Cost: Approximately $1,000 $1,200 Date of Interest Meeting: January 12, 2014, 4 pm Dates of Trip: June 14 21, 2014 Team Leader: Charlsie Wilkins, 512-869-2586, cwilkins@fbcgt.org Uganda Location: Mbal, Uganda Target Participants: Adults 18 or over. Families also welcome (children over 13) Scope: The Pearl Haven Ministries volunteer team will join with Pastor Wilberforce Okumu and the Pearl Haven Christian Church in Mbale, Uganda and participate in five days of door to door evangelism, sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ to surrounding villages. We will also assist in three outdoor Gospel Crusades and provide a Harvest Celebration (dinner) where we feed hundreds a hot meal. English is the official language in Uganda. If you have felt called to minister to the people of Africa, come join us on this life changing mission trip. There will also be an opportunity to experience the beauty of God s creation during a safari through Murchison Falls National Park. Cost: $3,000 Date of Interest Meeting: January 2014 Dates of Trip: June 30 July 15, 2014 Team Leader: John Brattlof, 512-751-2343, john@pearlhaven.org Houston Location: Houston, Texas Target Participants: Women, 18 and over
Scope: This mission trip partners alongside Houston s First Baptist Church in a city wide outreach to teach children about Jesus through Vacation Bible School. First Baptist Georgetown s women focus on teaching the parents of the children attending Long Point Baptist Church s VBS. Long Point is one of the mission churches that Houston First Baptist serves with during this week-long event. We have the opportunity to serve in various capacities during this week. These activities include; passing out flyers advertising the VBS, prayer walking, serving water and visiting with people in the benevolence line, helping in the clothes closet and food pantry, encouraging the staff, preparing gift baskets for the adult VBS attendees, taking keepsake pictures of families and speaking God s healing Word to attendees at night. This will be our eighth year to serve the people in the Houston area. We look forward each year to reconnect with the people God has brought into our lives. Ask God if He wants you to join us this summer. Cost: Approximately $200 Date of Interest Meeting: TBD Dates of Trip: July Team Leader (at FBCgT): Kerry Alton, 512-517- 1872, kerryalton@yahoo.com Salmon Frenzy Location: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Target Participants: Adults, Families with Children 11 and older, Youth 16 and older (limited to 8) Scope: Alaska Dipnetting is a yearly cultural activity. Located in a safe, family-friendly environment as families gather at the mouth of the great Kenai River to dip-net salmon out of the waters to stock their food supplies for the upcoming winter. Mission teams host beach kids club; give away water bottles and/or hotdogs; do beach cleanup as they prayer walk; supervise bouncy toys; host a beach chapel; and do traffic control. This is a BEACH REACH where Alaskans gather and are accessible. Come along and help us breakdown their stereotypes of Christians!! Cost: $1,100/person (approximate and dependent on airfare) Date of Interest Meeting: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, at 7 pm, E2.102 Dates of Trip: July 22 30, 2014
Team Leader (at FBCgT): Rae Oakes, 512-869- 2586, roakes@fbcgt.org Pickering, Canada Location: Pickering, Canada Target Participants: Family & Adults, Team Size 12 15 Scope: 2013 has been an exciting year for Fellowship Pickering, a new church plant in Pickering, Canada. Their Grand Opening was October 20, 2013. Throughout the summer in their preview services they had an average of nearly 90 in attendance. Several individuals came to Christ and made decisions for The Lord. Come be a part of this exciting ministry. School starts on September 2, 2014. Therefore, we would like to do a back to school event in a lower income neighborhood, prayer walk and survey neighborhoods. Date of Interest Meeting: March 23, 2014, 4pm Cost: Approximately $1,000 $1,200 Dates of Trip: August 29- September 5, 2014 Team Leader: Charlsie Wilkins, 512-869-2586, cwilkins@fbcgt.org Vermont Location: Vermont Target Participants: Median adults, especially those with the gift of encouragement Scope: The purpose of the mission trip is to provide encouragement for Vermont missionary pastors and wives serving as missionaries/church planters in Vermont through a variety of activities. Mission team members are asked to make a one-year commitment to befriend, encourage, support, contact and pray for the pastors, wives and their ministry in Vermont. Ministries on the trip will include some or all of the activities below: - Host multiple encouragement banquets for as many pastors/wives as can attend - Host a pastor and family for dinner - Possible prayer meeting at church - Participate in church services on Sunday in designated churches. Ministry opportunities include preaching, teaching, testimonies, music or just worshipping with the congregations
- Minister to nursing homes, daycare centers and the Soup Kitchens providing food and spiritual nourishment - Prayer walk in neighborhoods, communities and churches where work is planned or newly planted - Be flexible and open to God s day-to-day ministry opportunities Cost: $800-$900 Date of Interest Meeting: June 22, 2014, at 6 pm (tentative) Dates of Trip: September 26 October 3, 2014 Team Leader (at FBCgT): Jerry Mullins, 512-869- 9487, jerry.mullins8@verizon.net Atlanta, GA Location: Atlanta, Ga. Target Participants: Adults, 17 and older, Team 5-10 SCOPE: The team will partner with FBCgT s adopted church planter missionary, Matt Dye and M28 Church. Ministries are still being finalized but will probably include prayer walking, surveys, backyard Bible clubs, and a community outreach event. Cost: $1,100 Date of Interest Meeting: April 27, 2014, E2.102 Dates of Trip: October 10-18, 2014 Team Leader: Charlotte Watson, 512-869-2586, cwatson@fbcgt.org YOUTH MINISTRY MISSION TRIPS IN 2014 For information about mission trips planned for FBCgT Youth in 2014, contact, Brett Levy, Youth Minister, blevy@fbcgt.org. January 2014