Missions
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Below is an overview of the missions our church currently supports.
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Poor
The Lowell Transitional Living Center (LTLC) is the last stop for many folks who have 'fallen through the cracks' of society's safety net. Many suffer from mental illness, and are struggling with issues of addiction. Others are experiencing financial difficulty due to an insufficient educational background and poor job skills. Still others are veterans of our foreign wars, working folks who cannot find decent, safe housing due to the nationwide shortage of affordable housing, young adults who have nowhere to go and more recently, record numbers of senior citizens whose families have moved on or given up on them. The Lowell Transitional Living Center is a warm bed, a hot meal and protection from the cold. And even more important than the medical care, counseling, housing support, and case management services that we offer, is the intangible but critically important gift of hope the LTLC offers to our guests. Our church supports the Lowell Transitional Living Center with socks at Christmas. Billerica Food Pantry – These are difficult economic times for many people. Food Pantries are a way to fill the gap of needs for people who have lost their jobs or have reduced incomes. The church regularly collects food for the food pantry. Mark 10:21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
Living Waters Mission statement: “Living waters Ministry of Hope is a non-denominational faith based ministry. Our mission is to offer support to all people in the community, by helping to rebuild lives, fostering healthy relationships, teaching life skills and providing supportive and affordable housing.” They provide weekly bible studies, prayer and fellowship, clothing, referrals, functions & trips, food packs, outreach to the area shelter, a coffee house, and a recovery in Christ program. Hours of operation: Tues. 10-12 and 7-9:30pm, Thurs. & Fri. 7pm - 9:30pm, one Sat./month and Sun. 7pm - 10pm
2. The Prisoners
Scott and Hanne Larson are the executive directors of the ministry for troubled teens. Straight Ahead Ministries is faith-based, prayer centered, grassroots-oriented, and local church-based. Trained and equipped volunteers come alongside youth as Bible study leaders in juvenile jails, pen pals, mentors, tutors, and in a host of other roles where kids need positive adults from the community. Straight Ahead Academy is a residential re-entry program. Straight Ahead provides an annual conference on juvenile justice issues. They also provide detention center Bible discussion groups, aftercare home support and intercessory prayer partners.
Bob Marquis – New Beginnings After Prison
Ministry Bob Marquis provides a prison outreach ministry to help, encourage, support and build up inmates currently in prison as well as those released from the prison system. This ministry provides a quarterly newsletter, free Bibles, correspondence with prisoners, preparation for reintegration into the community by networking with pastors prior to release. The staff also provides counseling and mentoring for those released. Hebrews 13:13 Remember those in prison as though you were in prison with them. Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, Because the LORD has anointed me To preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.
3. Children The church is sponsoring two children at Pastor Olistin’s First Assemblies church. There are about 450 children at the Christian school associated with the church. We continue to support our sister church in Haiti through the missions and deacons offerings. Please visit our Haiti page to learn more about our work in Haiti.
Our church sponsors 1 boy Sabhavat Raju in India through Compassion International. Raju and his family are Christians who attend church and he attends Sunday School. In response to the Great Commission, Compassion International exists as an advocate for children, to release them from their spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty and enable them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults. Compassion International teams with local churches to implement their programs, working within the cultures of numerous people groups worldwide.
4. Strangers here Margaret Leavister provides a Christian mission to the international students at University of Massachusetts in Lowell. She has regular Bible studies and teaches English to the students’ wives. International Students, Inc. (ISI), established in 1953, is an organization of Christian volunteers who want to have friendships with international students at U.S. colleges and universities. ISI volunteers and staff provide various services to students. Some of these services include teaching them about American culture, helping them with problems needing a native speaker, finding an American Christian mentor in their academic discipline, and teaching them about our Creator God and the Bible.
Hebrews 13: 1-3 Keep on loving each other as brothers. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people has entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
5. Non-Christians abroad
Bryan and Mary Keef live in Orlando, FL. Wycliffe believes: 1) The Bible is God's message for people everywhere, 2) The message of the Bible is evangelistic and is the basis for church planting and growth, 3) The most effective means of communication is the mother tongue, 4) For a church to be truly indigenous, it must have the Bible in its mother tongue, 5) Bible translation is the task of the whole Church, and everyone can have a part. Wycliffe’ s mission is to assist the church in making disciples of all nations through Bible translation. Their vision is to see translation in progress among every language group that needs it by 2025.
How can you find out more about our missions?
Please pray for our missionaries and missions.
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