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Outreach
Our desire at Rawlinson Road Baptist Church is that the "sun never sets on our ministry". We want to have a ministry that touches people's lives 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, literally all over the world. To accomplish this, we have established a Global Missions Ministry that is involved in local, domestic, and international missions. Local: RRBC has been involved in reaching out to our community through a variety of mission opportunities including wheel chair access construction projects; food, finances, and heat for families in need; assistance to the Women's Job Corps, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Ron King Ministries, and others. RRBC also participates with assisting the World Changers, NSA Girl's Softball Tournament, and FCA Power Camps when they are in Rock Hill. The church family at RRBC is also heavily involved in reaching out to our local school through various forms of assisting the teachers, coaches, and administrators throughout the school year. International: In April 2009, four members from Rawlinson Road Baptist Church traveled to Tegucigalpa, Honduras for week- long trip serving as short-term missionaries with the Extended Hands Ministry. They ministered in a detention center where boys and girls from ages 13 – 17 are housed, a government home for abused and abandoned children of all ages, they distributed food to children living in the streets, and they visited feeding centers for undernourished children in the mountainous country areas where they held VBS. They also visited a maternity ward at a hospital where they distributed gifts to mothers of newborns. For one team member, the most impacting moment of the trip was when they were standing in a multi-acre city trash dump handing out bags of water to people who make their living scavenging in the filth. She said, “ I saw people of all ages digging through the trash. They were extremely dirty and horribly hot. As we begin to hand out the water bags and people began to drink from them, I was overcome when I watched as an old man fumbled to get his water bag open and to his mouth to drink. He drank as if he were on the brink of death and he was grasping for life. I hope and pray that I will never get over that sight.” As the team drove from the dump, a team member stated, “I didn’t see God anywhere in that dump.” It wasn’t until a short time later that the realization that the team members were in fact God’s hands in that hot, filthy, smelly trash dump that day as they handed out the refreshing water of life. Jesus said in Matthew 25:35-36, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me." For the mission team, it can be said, they ministered to Jesus that week as stated in Matthew 25: 35-26. Interested in participating in a trip to Honduras scheduled for Spring 2010? Please contact us online@rrbc.org. For more information, http://www.mehonduras.org/ or http://www.hopegivers.org/ and http://www.persecution.com/ |
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