Local
Areas for involvement:
- Isaiah Project (click the Isaiah Project link on the left)
- Baptist Campus Ministry at Northern Kentucky University
- Moore Activity Center is in need of volunteers. If interested, contact Amy Wilhelmus at 859-431-1314 or macmissions@aol.com.
33% of the Highland Hills missions budget is dedicated to support local missions such as:
- Isaiah Project
- Moore Activity Center
- Northern Kentucky Baptist Association
- Turfway Ministry
- Weekday Religious Education
National
Areas for involvement:
- Weekend trips are scheduled occasionally to Inez, Kentucky to minister at Haven of Rest. Haven of Rest is located three miles from a federal prison and ministers to families who come to visit their father/husband/son in the prison. Activities include painting, cleaning, gardening, general construction, and interacting with the guests. For information on the next trip, contact Jane Onspaugh at 859-781-8384.
- Numerous opportunities are available for individual trips through the Southern Baptist National Mission Board at NAMB.net.
20% of the Highland Hills budget is allocated to support national missions such as:
- Church-sponsored and individual trips
- Southern Baptist Corporative Program
- Kentucky Baptist Home for Children
Global
Areas for Involvement:
- The youth group takes a trip nearly every year. Contact Ben Wilson for more information.
- Individual opportunities are also available through the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. Go to imb.org for a list of opportunities.
- Pray for and correspond with Kristy Northcutt. Kristy attended Highland Hills for the several years before going to Tailand to teach English as a second language. She is ministering specifically to the girls in the red-light district of Bangkok. Find out more about Kristy and her work on her web site kristyscapers.blogspot.com.
- Pray for Charity Powell as she prepares for going on The World Race in January 2010. Charity was one of our Ministers to Youth prior to being called to The World Race. Click here to keep up-to-date with Charity's preparations.
- Pray for Gamie and Millie Beltran, missionaries in the Philippines who we support. Read updates from them here.
- Highland Hills supports blood:water mission in their 1,000 Wells Project--building 1,000 clean-water wells in Africa. It takes just $1 to provide clean water to an African for a full year. $3,000 builds a well for an entire village. blood:water has built 340 wells in 11 countries, providing clean water to over 276,000 people, since 2004.
Links
Interfaith Hospitality Network | http://www.nkyihn.org
New Hope Center | http://www.newhopecenter.com