We
Are a Church With an Emphases on Missions
Meet
Virginia Mixer, Our Mission Coordinator
My
husband, John, and I have been members of
this church since 1972 when the Army
sent
us to Ft. Riley.
We planned to be in Manhattan for a year
or two, but decided
to
stay and make this our home.
College Heights
Baptist Church strives to serve both
the
members of the military and the university community
(students, faculty and internationals).
We
hope you will make this church your home
as well, whether you are planning on staying
in
Manhattan for a short time or making it
your home. Join us in
sharing his love with this
community,
this country and the world.
As
a child, I attended church with my family
and was baptized when I was 8 years old.
At
that point in my spiritual life
I knew much about Jesus' live and death
just like I knew
about
George Washington being the
first president of the United States. I
had a "head knowledge"
of
Him, but it wasn't until my teen
years that I started to realize I needed
a personal
relationship
with my Lord and needed to let Him live
in and through me. God is still teaching
me
more about Himself and His will every
day. Growing in my faith and
learning to follow
Him
instead of going my own way is a continual
process. I thank my Lord
and God
that
He is patient with me. I thank Him for the
abounding love and the grace He offers
me
and all who will call
upon His name.
How CHBC
is Answering God's Call
God's
call is to take His message into all the
world. We, at College Heights Baptist Church,
take that message
seriously.
Missions activity has been, and continues
to be, a special part of College Height's
ministry.
We
Pray--We maintain personal contact with
seven full-time missionary families in order
to pray for their specific
ministry
needs, their people groups, and their personal
and spiritual needs. We pray for specific
short-term
missionaries
and for God's workers in the ends of the
earth.
We
Give--We actively support international
missions through the annual Lottie Moon
Christmas offering, North
American
missions through the Annie Armstrong Easter
Offering, and the Kansas/Nebraska missions
through the
Viola
Webb offering. Our members are generous
givers and each year we receive recognition
from the Smokey Hill
Baptist
Association for being a "Top Giving
Church" in our association.
We
Go--Over the years we have sponsored
a number of missionaries from within our
church body who have
served
or are still serving in a variety of countries
including: India, Chile, Peru, Eastern and
Southern Africa, Central
and
South Asia and the Pacific Rim. Some of
our missionary families have been on the
field for more than 20 years,
some
have retired, and some are newer to the
field. One of our members is currently working
as a bi-vocational
missionary
with an Indian reservation in northeast
Nebraska.
Over
the years we have sent short-term mission
teams to Omaha, NB to run a vacation Bible
school on an Indian
reservation;
to St. Louis, MO for vacation Bible school
in the inner city, to Kansas City, MO to
work in soup
kitchens;
and to Chicago to work with inner-city youth.
In our own back yard, we have sent a team
to work with a
trailer
park ministry in Junction City, KS, hold
conversational English classes/Bible study
for international students at
our
church, and have a small team that witnesses
with our pastor on the street corner in
Aggieville (our local
college's
bar district).
If
you would like to join us in reaching our
neighborhood or the world with the Gospel
message, please feel to
contact
me, Virginia Mixer. Just choose "help
with missons", on the "Contact
Us" page, fill in your personal information,
and
I will be in touch with you.
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to go to the Contact Us page.
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