The Missions Ministry at UCC exists to help implement the command of Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20 to... "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." As Jesus also said to His disciples in Matthew 9:36-38..."The harvest is plentiful and the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field.

With these Scriptures as our mandate, the Missions Ministry pursues opportunities each year to spread the gospel at home and abroad, to support educational endeavors and benevolent activities, and to meet special needs of our supported missions and others too. Close to 60 percent of our 2007 budget was earmarked for overseas work -- the balance was in support of local, state and national work.

Pictures and contact information for supported missions are located on the bulletin board along the hallway by the sanctuary.

Local and State Missions

• Habitat For Humanity -- This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
• Footprint Radio Broadcasting Ministry -- KRMI 105.5 FM
• Perspectives On The World Christian Movement*
• Manhattan Young Life -- Luke Feather*
• Central Kansas Youth For Christ -- Cassidy Dellemonache, Director
• Manhattan Christian College
• Kansas Christian Evangelizing Association
• International Student Friendship program -- e-mail for information to get involved
• KHCA Angel 95
• King Solomon Christian Service Camp -- This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

United States Missions

• American Indian Christian Mission -- Barbara Tate
• Christian Challenge Campus Ministry at University of Nebraska, Lincoln -- Jeremy and Amber Pape
• Cookson Hills Christian Ministries , Kansas, OK
• Journey Christian Church , New Orleans, LA
• National Bible Bowl *
• National Missionary Convention

Worldwide Missions

• Bump's Mission to Mexico
• Brazil Missions Team -- new church plant in Brazil
• European Evangelistic Society -- Scott and Cherie Caulley at the Institute For The Study of Christian Origins, Tubingen, Germany
• Tractors For Our Daily Bread*

• Jesus Film Project
• Summer Interns going to such areas as Guatemala, Kenya, Tanzania, Austria, and Los Angeles, CA.*

• Other work is supported in sensitive areas

The Missions Ministry receives each year a fixed percentage of the general budget to fund the various missions supported. In CY 2007 the percentage received was 16 percent, amounting to a total of $91,744.00. Included in the missions budget are "mission activity" funds which provide supplemental dollars to our regularly supported missionaries if they encounter a special need as well as one-time gifts for such ministries as the Chaplaincy Endorsement Commission and the Safety Net of the National Church Growth Research Center.

Prayer for missions is encouraged with monthly prayer bookmark reminders distributed in adult Sunday School classes as well as prayer guides for such ministries as the National Missionary Convention. The International Day of Prayer For the Persecuted Church is observed on the second Sunday in November.

An annual church-wide garage sale is held in the spring each year in support of the summer mission trip to work with the Bumps in Juarez, Mexico. If logistics for the trip do not materialize, as in 2006, the funds raised are sent to the Bumps for use in their various construction projects.

To get involved, e-mail the Missions Ministry.

UCC Missions Forms

• Short Term Missions Application
• Missions Trip Form - short form
• Long Term Missions Application
• "Perspectives" Scholarship Application