Missions

Mission links of the month:

2009

Mission of the Month
Red Bird Mission, a non-profit agency located in the Appalachian mountains of Southeastern Kentucky, empowers individuals and advocated justice by providing educational, health, and community outreach ministries to area low-income residents.

Here is the link to the Red Bird Mission
http://www.rbmission.org/

Global Ministries and the United Methodist Church. The General Board of Global Ministries is the global mission agency of The United Methodist Church, its annual conferences, missionary conferences, and local congregations.
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/about/

December

Sojourner House   http://www.burdmangroup.com/SH.asp
The mission of Sojourner House Domestic Violence Program is to provide a comprehensive program of crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy and shelter for victims of domestic violence in Mahoning County.

September:
Servants.  http://www.servants.org/
In the Year 2000 Trent Davis answered Christ's call to servant ministry and established Servants, Inc. Based on his mission experience in Guatemala and other events that followed shortly thereafter Trent came to the following conclusions:

- There is a desperate need for Christ in our country and the world.
- People in the world are dying every day from a lack of basic necessities.
- Most people, given the opportunity, are willing to serve.

We at Servants believe that Christ uniquely calls each person into service. We know people want to serve, but may be having a difficult time getting started. Servants was created to serve others and enable others to serve.

August
United Methodist Volunteers in Mission.  http://www.umvim.org/
United Methodist Volunteers In Mission (UMVIM), SEJ exists to promote, encourage and enable Christians to exemplify “Christian Love In Action”. Our aim is to achieve the Great Commission through providing short-term mission opportunities for everyday Christians to reach a new generation with God's love

UMVIM provides opportunities for service in places of need around the world by developing and nurturing relationships with domestic and international leaders. We continually evaluate our contacts with these leaders to provide comprehensive project information. We help connect volunteers with suitable projects for effective service. 

MAY
Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley - http://www.rescuemissionmv.org/mission.html
"The purpose of the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley is to serve and glorify God through Christ-centered outreach of love and compassion that responds to the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of disadvantaged men, women, and children without regard to race, color or creed."

April:
World Vision - http://www.worldvision.org/  World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

March
Habitat for Humanity. http://www.habitat.org/

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

February

Church World Service. http://www.churchworldservice.org/

Within the United States, Church World Service assists communities in responding to disasters, resettles refugees, promotes fair national and international policies, provides educational resources, and offers opportunities to join a people-to-people network of local and global caring through participation in CROP Hunger Walks , the Tools & Blankets Program, and the CWS Kits Program.

Founded in 1946, Church World Service is the relief, development, and refugee assistance ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations in the United States.

January

Urban Mission®, http://www.urbanmission.org/ Located in Steubenville, Ohio, Urban Mission provides food, shelter and other essential services to the low income population of the Steubenville, OH - Weirton, WV, metro area of 134,000 people. Beginning as "Mill Men's Hostel" in 1959, Urban Mission has grown to become the largest charity in the Upper Ohio River Valley. Local steel mills which once employed more than 32,000 workers have seen total employment decline to under 3,000. Forty percent of area school children now live below the poverty level

December

Youth With a Mission (YWAM).  http://www.ywam.org

Youth With A Mission is an international movement of Christians from many denominations dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced "WYE-wam"), our calling is to know God and to make Him known. Back when we began in 1960, our main focus was to get youth into short-term mission work and to give them opportunities to reach out in Jesus' name. Today, we still focus on youth, and we also involve people of almost every age (even many people who choose to spend their "retirement" in active service). Our many ministries fit into three main categories: evangelism, training and mercy ministry. We are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000.

October

Christian Church Foundation for the Handicapped.  http://www.ccfh.org/

September

SEND International is an interdenominational faith mission agency, with over 600 missionaries in more than 20 countries of Asia, Europe and North America.

For more than 50 years they've been...
Starting churches where there are none by
Evangilizing the unreached
Nurturing disciples, and
Developing leaders from among the national people.

http://www.send.org/index.htm

August
BUSES International, a non-profit, non-denominational ministry, is committed to seeing the Gospel of Jesus Christ spread to every nation of the world by showing God's unconditional love to those in need.   We build buses into medical clinics, dental clinics, eye clinics, emergency response vehicles, shower buses, food distribution and street ministry vehicles.  We give them to missionaries and ministries around the world to assist in their efforts to meet the needs of the poor and share the love of God. 
http://www.busesinternational.org/

Red Bird Mission, a non-profit agency located in the Appalachian mountains of Southeastern Kentucky, empowers individuals and advocated justice by providing educational, health, and community outreach ministries to area low-income residents.

Here is the link to the Red Bird Mission
http://www.rbmission.org/

United Methodist Committee on Relief
UMCOR is the humanitarian relief and development agency of the United Methodist Church, a worldwide denomination. For 65 years UMCOR has responded internationally to natural or human made disasters-those interruptions of such magnitude that they overwhelm a community's ability to recover on its own.
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/

Samaritan's Purse
Samaritan's Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ.   The organization was founded by Franklinn Graham.

The organization serves the Church worldwide to promote the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Operation Christmas Child is organized and run by Samaritan's Purse
Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to needy children around the world through gift-filled shoe boxes and the Good News of God's love. This program provides an opportunity for people of all ages to be involved in a simple, hands-on missions project that focuses on the true meaning of Christmas--Jesus Christ, God's greatest gift.

At Calvary United Methodist we have been providing shoe boxes for several years.  This has been a great way to get the whole family involved and provide joy and the Love of God to many around the world.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC.asp?MPGID=1