A team representing the DeKalb and Marshall Baptist Associations recently ministered to more than 400 members of the Agusan River Valley Association of Southern Baptist Convention churches near Butuan City, Philippines, during the Association’s fourth annual Camp Meeting.
The team members served as Bible study leaders, preachers, Vacation Bible School teachers and youth camp leaders/speakers. A doctor also went who conducted free medical clinics.
This was the fifth team sent to the Philippines by the DeKalb Baptist Association in three years.
Heritage Baptist Church, Dothan, sent 22 volunteers from the area to New York City May 28–June 5 to minister to victims of Sept. 11.
Friendship Baptist Association traveled to Columbia, S.C., June 1–8 to help construct an addition to White Rock Baptist Church.
Members of Skyland Boulevard Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, traveled to Tupelo, Miss., June 19–22 to work with the “Touched by an Angel” ministry providing summer camps for children with special needs.
A missions team from Victory Baptist Church, Guntersville, will perform maintenance and ministry tasks in Guatemala July 20–28.
A missions team from First Baptist Church, Greenville, will travel to Sequatchie, Tenn., July 22–26
Youth from Southside Baptist Church in Butler Baptist Association will participate in a World Changers project July 26–Aug. 3.
Limestone Baptist Association is planning a missions trip to Stevenson July 28–Aug. 2 where volunteers will conduct Vacation Bible School and help with construction of Covenant Baptist Church.
Workers from Sixth Street Baptist Church and First Baptist Church, Alexander City, are working on the building of Willow Baptist Church in Alaska.
East Cullman Baptist Association sent workers to Hillcrest Baptist Camp in Cave-in Rock, Illinois June 3–7.
A missions team from Canaan Baptist Church, Bessemer, went on a missions trip to the Choctaw Indian Reservation in Mississippi June 25–27.
The youth of First Baptist Church, Opelika, went on a missions trip to Dallas, Texas, June 1–8.
Missions work is being done in Alaska, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Dominican Republic, China, Honduras, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama by members of First Baptist Church, Sylacauga.
The Autauga Association sent 10 men and women on a missions trip to Venezuela the first week in July.
A team representing Butler Baptist Association joined the Bethlehem and Pine Barren associations for a missions trip to Hampshire, Tenn., June 22–28.
Missions teams from First Baptist Church, Birmingham, traveled to Venezuela June 14–22 and Michigan June 22–29.
A missions team from Hillview Baptist Church, Birmingham, will volunteer to help build a church for the 20th consecutive year. This year they will be working in Elko, S.C.
Eighty youth of the Chilton Baptist Association traveled to Massachusetts June 19–July 3 to minister in the towns of Wilmington and Lawrence.
Immanuel Baptist Church, Hokes Bluff, sent a medical missions team to Mexico June 7.
Mission teams represented Pickens Baptist Association in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Mississippi throughout June.
Other teams from the association will travel to Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire and South Dakota in July.
Birmingham Baptist Association sent volunteers to Romania June 6–17.
South Roebuck Baptist Church, Birmingham, sent a missions team to Matamoros, Mexico, July 11–15.
Students volunteering as part of Baptist Campus Ministry will serve in Vermont, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Venezuela, Honduras and Indiana throughout this summer.
Sage Avenue Baptist, Mobile, sent 18 members to Kansas City, Kan., June 3–11 to conduct Vacation Bible School at First Baptist, Bethel.
Medical missions teams from Shades Mountain Baptist Church, Vestavia Hills, were sent to Brazil June 14–25, Venezuela June 21–29 and Peru June 21–30. A group of Mountain Top Builders traveled to Laurel, Md., June 14–22.
A program called University Mission sponsored by the school of religion at the University of Mobile is sending 10 missions groups around the world this summer. Students and local church members will minister through prayer and praise walks, literature distribution, street evangelism, sports ministry and children’s ministry. Mission sites for this summer are Belgium, Germany, France, Wales, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Thailand, England and Scotland.
A missions team representing Cherokee Baptist Association will travel to North Dakota July 11–15.
Lenora Hamrick of the Bigbee Baptist Association will travel with 125 others to volunteer and teach English as a second language in Chengdu Province in Southern China July 7–Aug. 10. Ramona Larkin will minister with children in Russia July 19–29.
A missions trip to Mexico July 19–Aug. 1 is being sponsored by Butler Association.
Connie Parr of Elkdale Baptist Church was a short-term missionary in Mexico during the month of June, and Michelle McMaster, also from Elkdale, is a short-term missionary in Wales this summer.
Bullock Centennial Baptist Association sent a missions team to Wyoming this summer to minister in a population that is 95 percent Mormon. The team built two Baptist churches.
First Baptist Church, Huntsville, members have performed missions work in West Africa through the month of June and will continue throughout July. Another missions group traveled to Toronto June 17–29. The church also sent 40 youth to North Carolina on a choir/missions trip.
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