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Our
Missions
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College
Heights Baptist Church
"CHBC"
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College
Heights Baptist Church
is a Church
With an Emphases on Missions
Meet
Virginia Mixer, Our Mission Coordinator
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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.
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How CHBC
is Answering God's Call
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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, Centraland 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 a tour 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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Click
on the Cross to go to the Contact
Us page.
Contact Us
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Please
Join Us in Life Choice Ministries
2012 Walk for Life
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Love,
Sweat And Cheers!
By Virginia Mixer
August 2011
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Junction
City Mission Team
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For
the past 4 years, volunteers from
College Heights Baptist Church have
been
traveling to their neighboring city,
Junction City, to minister to kids
in a low-income
trailer park during the warm summer
months of June and July.
The ministry started after Pastor
Tim Gotchey visited a family in
the trailer park and
saw an obvious need. Recently one
grandparent thanked us for spending
time with the
kids because"there isn't much
for the kids in the park to do other
than to hang out on
summer evenings and get into trouble.'"
The CHBC volunteers meet at the
church, pray for God leading, and
load the cars
with game supplies, a big water
cooler, a boom box, and lots of
hot dogs. As our cars
pull into the small parking lot,
a small group of kids are waiting
and cheering for our
arrival. They eagerly help us unload
our car trunks and carry the supplies
to a
net-less-tennis court. As we set
up the tables and games, the word
quickly spreads
throughout the park that we have
arrived. The kids, ages 5-17, start
streaming in and
the games begin. The games include
broom hockey,dodge ball, and various
versions
of tag,for those kids who like competitive
games plus Frisbee,Yackle,Doors
& Windows, and even chalk art
and hopscotch for the few who prefer
less
competition.
After
about an hour of playing (That's
where the "sweat" part
of the title of this article
comes from) with frequent water
breaks, we take a cookie break.
We spread a large
tarpon the tennis court for the
kids to sit on and serve Oreo cookies
with more water
as we share a Bible lesson about
God's love and lead action songs.
During this worship
time with the kids,another group
of volunteers starts the charcoal
fire for cooking hot
dogs and brats. After a few more
games to give the cooking crew time
to prepare the
hot dogs,the kids eagerly line up
for the hot dog, ketchup and mustard
dispensing
volunteers. Although we generally
see very few parents or caregivers,
one grandmother
and handicapped nephew have been
joining us regularly for hot dogs.
A few of the kids remembered us
from last year, but most are new
to the ministry.
Each night before we leave the park,
we leave the kids with youth-directed
Bible
tracks and memory verse handouts
to take home. On the last night
we will give each
family an evangelistic video that
we hope they will share with their
whole family.
Our
12-volunteer pool is an interesting
mix with 5 over age 50, 3 college
students, and
4 international students from China.
A young, visiting scholar from China,
who had
never eaten, much less cooked a
hot dog before, has become our chief
hot dog cook.
Just last week,one of the volunteers
said, "I'll really miss coming
out here when July is
over."Most of these kids are
not only hungry for hot dogs, but
are hungry for attention
and for someone to care enough to
spend time with them even if it
is only one night a
week for two months in the summer.
We are glad we can be there for
them on these
warm summer evenings and pray when
we are gone, the seeds we have planted
will
continue grow.
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