Mission Trips
2011 Mission Trip ScheduleLocal
Hope House Weekdays - Bryan Lewis (bryan@hopehousebg.com)
- Volunteering at Hope House
- Teaching ESL to the Burmese of our community
National
Dates: March 5-12, 2011
Destination: Fargo, North Dakota
Who: College Students
Mission: Seek to engage the community, develop friendships, share the Gospel, and invite new friends to a Sojourn Bible study. This trip involves a strong element of servant evangelism.
Cost: $250.00
Fact: The area population of Fargo is 200,000 with only 3 Southern Baptist churches (The largest has 60 members). Warren County has a population of 109,000 people and has 49 SBC churches.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Matt Haste mhaste@lhbg.org
Dates: July 5-9, 2011
Destination: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Who: Adults, Families (children 1st grade & up)
Mission: Provide BYBC, youth camp and upgrade facilities for children and youth at Tenn. Baptist Homes for Children. Light construction, painting, landscape, and cleaning at facility and in the community. Light cooking crew needed.
Cost: $600.00 per 2 people in same room
$100.00 for each additional person in the same room
Fact: There are over 400,000 children currently in foster or orphan care in the United States.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Cindy Starr cstarr@lhbg.org
Nora Hubbard nhubbard@lhbg.org
Dates: July 2-9, 2011
Destination: Superior, Colorado
Who: High School Students and Leaders
Mission: Provide a Back Yard Bible Club for Cool River Church. The team will make efforts to reach out to the families in the area in order to share the love of Jesus.
Cost: $500.00
Fact: Superior, Colorado has 13,000 people and only one church.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Jeff Armstrong jarmstrong@lhbg.org
Dates: October 1-8, 2011
Destination: Fargo, North Dakota
Who: Adults & Families
Mission: Seek to engage the community, develop friendships, share the Gospel, and invite new friends to a Sojourn Bible study. Servant evangelism in Fargo.
Cost: $500 Members; $750 Non-Members
Fact: The area population of Fargo is 200,000 with only 3 Southern Baptist churches (The largest has 60 members). Warren County has a population of 109,000 people and has 49 SBC churches.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Carlos Lopez carloslopez13@yahoo.com
International
Dates: March 26–April 2, 2011
Destination: Costa Rica
Who: Adults, Families
Mission: Provide a construction team to continue working on Project Abrahams facilities. This organization reaches out to children and youth trapped in poverty and seeks to help them break out of the destructive cycles found in their community and realize the love they have from Christ.
Cost: $1250.00 Members, $1500.00 Non-Members
Fact: Four out of every ten people living in poverty in Costa Rica are children twelve years old or younger.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Steve Pattison Steve_Pattison@lord.com
Dates: April 1-9, 2011
Destination: Tokyo, Japan
Who: Women
Mission: Engage Japanese women and their families for Christ. The team will develop relationships through the use of creative ministries and share the Gospel with those involved in the groups. We will partner with IMB missionaries in Tokyo.
Cost: $1500.00 Members; $2000.00 Non-Members
Fact: The Japanese are the largest unevangelized people group in the world. Only one out of every 200 Japanese is a believer. This means less than 1% of Japan’s 127 million people know Jesus as Savior and Lord.
Contact: Missions Department 207-843-9462
Mary Beth Carlisle marybeth_c@bellsouth.net
Dates: May 19-28, 2011
Destination: Niamey, Niger, West Africa
Who: Adults
Mission: Go into a village with no church and seek to grow the kingdom of God. The team will have evangelistic conversations with all they will meet. The desire is to make believers and help them establish a church.
Cost: $2000.00 Members; $2500.00 Non-Members
Fact: Out of 3.5 million Songhai, there are less than 300 believers.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Will Burnham wburnham@lhbg.org
Dates: June 17-25, 2011
Destination: Issoire, France
Who: Adults, Families
Mission: To engage the French in the Massif Central region during a Bluegrass Music Festival. This engagement will be by distribution of Gospel tracts, survey work, conversations, and maybe even a band from our church.
Cost: $1500.00 Members; $2000.00 Non-Members
Fact: Most in France follow the tradition of laicite. This means that the culture tolerates any religion as long as it remains hidden behind the veil of an individual’s private life.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Jeff Carlisle jcarlisle@lhbg.org
Dates: August 11-20, 2011
Destination: Niamey, Niger, West Africa
Who: Adults
Mission: Go into a village with no church and seek to grow the kingdom of God. The team will have evangelistic conversations with all they will meet. The desire is to make believers and help them establish a church.
Cost: $2000.00 Members; $2500.00 Non-Members
Fact: Out of 3.5 million Songhai, there are less than 300 believers.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Jeff Carlisle jcarlisle@lhbg.org
Dates: September 30-October 9, 2011
Destination: South Asia
Who: Adults
Mission: While hiking through the foothills of the Himalayas, the team will share the Good News of Jesus to all who will listen. This team needs to be physically fit and able to hike 5 miles a day in high altitudes.
Cost: $2000.00 Members; $2000.00 Non-Members
Fact: In South Asia, there is one missionary for every 6 million people.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Shaun Gipson shaun_gipson@yahoo.com
Dates: November 4-12, 2011
Destination: Central Asia
Who: Adults
Mission: Due to security, we will travel as tourists to a country that is closed to the Gospel. While there, the team will look for ways to share our faith and obtain valuable information about the country for our International Missions Board (IMB).
Cost: $2000.00 Members; $2500.00 Non-Members
Fact: There are no protestant churches or missionaries for this country with a population close to 6 million.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Jeff Carlisle jcarlisle@lhbg.org
Dates: June 1-10, 2011
Destination: East Asia
Who: College Students
Mission: Due to security, we will travel as tourists to a country that is closed to the Gospel. While there, the team will provide English Corners and share our faith on a university campus.
Cost: $1500.00 Members; $2000.00 Non-Members
Fact: The Communist Party teaches that there is no god. University students are often open to the Gospel as they reach adulthood and search for meaning in their life.
Contact: Missions Department 270-843-9462
Ryan Boyd rboyd@lhbg.org
For more information about Missions at Living Hope Baptist Church, contact:
Jeff Carlisle, Missions Pastor ............................................................. jcarlisle@lhbg.org
Stuart Borders, Local Missions Pastor ...............................................sborders@lhbg.org
Nora Hubbard, Missions Logistics Director ........................................nhubbard@lhbg.org
Or call the church at 270.843.9462