Missions Ministry

Purpose

Church on Mill has a long-standing tradition of being a missions-minded church. We believe that the focus of missions should be to help fulfill the Great Commission, not just in our community, but to the ends of the earth.

We do this by participating in missions, giving to missions on local, national, and international levels, and praying and supporting mission projects and missionaries.

Missions Events

Event Date	Event Description
Jul 28 12:30pm	Haiti Mission Trip Information Meeting Learn more about the opportunity to serve in Haiti. The mission trip is scheduled for January 3-13. Location: Auditorium West Wing
Jan 3	Haiti Mission Trip - Haiti A group from COM will be heading to Cap-Haitien, Haiti to serve with Living Hope Mission.

*Recurring event - only next date shown

Adopted Missions Groups

Adopted Missionaries

COM families working with unreached people groups: Pacific Rim and Central Asia
Missionary family working in the UK
Jan Lows - Mission Service Corps with NAMB (see www.lifeamongthenations.com).
Rob and Mo James - IMB Consultants, UK
Dennis and Sandy Wood - Missionaries at Large, USA

Additional Missions Work

Casa De Amor Baptist Center

Church on Mill supports Casa De Amor Baptist Center, a community ministry caring center funded by the Valley Rim Association of Southern Baptists. Casa De Amor is an inner city food, clothing and training ministry located in Mesa. Senior adult activities are held on Wednesday mornings followed by a meal at noon. Computer classes are offered on Monday and Tuesday.

Casa De Amor is currently in need of canned green beans, corn and fruit, bags of pinto beans, toothpaste and toilet paper, and grocery store brown paper bags. Please continue to bring your new or gently used household items, clothing, non-perishable food, and toiletries to our closet located outside the office. Please make sure the items are clean, useable and ready for distribution.

A Place to Call Home: ABCS Missionary Home

The ABCS Missionary Home (provided by Arizona Baptist Children’s Services) is located near Camelback Road and Loop 101 near the Peoria Sports Complex. Its purpose is to provide housing to IMB and NAMB missionaries coming to Arizona on stateside assignment or for medical treatment. The desire of the partnership is to provide this home at no cost to the missionary family.

COM is partnering with about 10 other churches and is committed to $100 per month in financial support. The home currently has several requests for use through December 2012.

Get Involved

Pray

Become a prayer partner for one of our adopted churches/people/missionaries. Contact Misael Cabrera, Prayer Ministry Team Leader, for more information.

Volunteer

Check out the Purpose & Events page for upcoming missions opportunities
Go to www.imb.org to learn more about International Missions work
Go to www.namb.net to learn more about North American Missions
Be a Mission Friends teacher on Wednesday nights to help teach preschoolers about missionaries and how they can tell others about Jesus. Contact Joni Ward or Andrea Heaton for information.
Volunteer at the Casa De Amor Baptist Center. It is an inner city food, clothing, and training ministry located in Mesa and funded by the Valley Rim Association of Southern Baptists
Attend International Wives & Friends Fellowship meetings and learn how your talents & skills can be utilized to minister to wives of International students. Meets Wednesdays at the ASU BSM from 9:30am-11:30am. Check out the International Wives & Friends Fellowship ministry page for schedule and details.

Support

Support missions financially via the unified missions offering or a designated missions offering of your choice. See the Missions Giving page for more information.
Donate clothing, toys, furniture, non-perishable food items to the Casa De Amor Baptist Center ministries. You may leave your items at our Casa De Amor Closet located inside the gated entrance area to the church office. Go to www.valleyrimassociation.org and select "Casa de Amor" for more information on this ministry.
Support the Missionary Home (provided by Arizona Baptist Children’s Services) by praying for the missionary family currently in residence, by giving to the “Missionary House” using your pink envelope, and by sponsoring the missionary house for one month with your Life Group or as a family.

Missions Giving

The Unified Missions Offering is collected year-round. This offering creates an opportunity for people to give consistently to missions throughout the whole year. Each year, the Unified Missions Offering is divided between:

International Missions (Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®)
North American Missions (Annie Armstrong Easter Offering®
Church On Mill’s Adopted People, Churches and Missionaries
Arizona Baptist Children’s Services
State Missions
Arizona Disaster Relief Fund
Local Hunger Relief

We also collect offerings during special emphasis times and encourage people to support missions as God leads them. The following list is just a few of the missions offerings we give to:

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (International Missions)
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® (North American Missions)
State Missions Offering
Mother’s Day Offering (Arizona Baptist Children’s Services)
Casa De Amor Baptist Center (Local Hunger Relief)
Christian Challenge (Baptist Student Ministries)

To give to missions, you can give online or simply place your offering in the pink envelopes provided on Sunday mornings and write which missions opportunity you would like to support in the “designated” line, or simply write “Unified Missions” for the money to go to all missions groups we support.

Please contact the church office if you have questions or would like additional information about the missions ministry.