Missions

 

Highland has been committed to missions since its beginning as a mission church over 55 years ago. 

Besides those listed and described below, some of the local mission projects include the South Plains Food Bank, Buckner’s Children Home, Christmas and Thanksgiving food baskets, and WorldChangers.

Our special mission project for  2006 was be to take a group to Picayune, MS to help repair houses damaged by hurricane Katrina.    For more information.

 

Lubbock Baptist Association
  Mission Lubbock
  Plains Baptist Assembly
Exodus Prison Ministry
Emmanuel Church
Mission Church in Eagle, Idaho
Korean Mission Church
Baby Closet
Angel Tree
GA’s/ RA’s
Mission Friends

Lubbock Area Baptist Association
http://www.lubbockbaptist.com

Highland supports the Lubbock Area Baptist Association with monthly financial support and by providing for their office space in the Highland Shopping Center.

The LABA is an Association of autonomous Southern Baptist Churches (approximately 90 churches and missions) located in several counties of the South Plains of Texas who have chosen to band together and cooperate with each other to accomplish certain tasks which can better be accomplished by a family of churches rather than each church seeking to do certain tasks individually.

These tasks include:

Helping individual churches to fulfill their mission
Promoting fellowship between the pastors, staff, members and the churches
Starting and continuing new churches and missions as a means to reach this part of the world for salvation and Christian discipleship.
Encouraging agreement on doctrinal and practical issues. Facilitating communications between churches and conventions.
Encouraging commitment to missions by churches and individuals
Extending the work of the churches through cooperative activities in which churches work together to meet common needs
Providing a channel for mission service to both churches and their members.

Whether the issue is "being on mission" or "doing missions," the LBA exists to help her churches to be and to do in order to be true to the Great Commission. When a church has a need, help is usually available "when requested".

The Lubbock Baptist Association adopted the following mission statement in 1996: We will be an inclusive family of Southern Baptist Churches on mission seeking to fulfill the Great Commission through encouraging existing congregations, starting new congregations and striving to provide meaningful educational and fellowship opportunities for all cooperating congregations.

The LABA’s office is located at 4207 34^th Street in Lubbock, Texas. Their office telephone number is (806) 791-4442. The FAX number is (806) 791-1115.

The ministerial staff of the Association consists of the Director of Missions, Larry Jones, and the Ed Sena serves as the Church Starts/Church Services Director.

Plains Baptist Assembly

Not only does Highland use Plains Baptist Assembly for retreats and camps, it supports it through church budget offerings. We also send work groups to the camp several times during the year to help upgrade facilities.

PBA is a retreat center of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and is located in Rio Blanco Canyon near Floydada.  

The purpose of PBA is to "magnify the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; to win the lost to a saving faith in Christ and to develop the lives of Christians."

Having celebrated its 55^th Anniversary, it is estimated that over 300,000 people have attended the assembly during the years. More significantly, over 11,000 have made professions of faith and nearly 2,000 have felt God calling them to some form of ministerial vocation.

 

    Exodus Prison Ministry  
     http://www.exodusprisonministry.org

OUT OF BONDAGE…INTO NEW LIFE…BY WAY OF THE CROSS

Highland supports Exodus Prison Ministry by providing their office facilities, and by encouraging our people to become involved in this important ministry .

In the early 80’s, several concerned citizens of Lubbock began visiting the local jail to witness and to provide Christian literature to the inmates. They believed the answer to the crime problem was a change in the heart of the offender.

ARTICLE FROM THE BAPTIST STANDARD (2-10-99)

Requests from prisoners for Christian literature and Bible study materials increased. Consequently, EXODUS PRISON MINISTRY was established as a non-profit organization in August of 1983.

The goal of Exodus is two-fold:

We introduce offenders to Christ through good evangelistic Christian literature. We believe CRIMINALS CAN BE CHANGED THROUGH CHRIST – first in the heart – and then in lifestyle.

We disciple them to Christian maturity utilizing the EXODUS Bible Correspondence School. This is the main focus of our ministry. We currently have over 30 quality, scripturally reliable study books. Prisoners are encouraged to learn to live "in" Christ and allow Christ to live "in" them. We also have a lending library.

EXODUS has been privileged to send Bible studies to offenders in all 50 states. Many have trusted Christ as Savior and have become faithful witnesses both behind bars and eventually back in society.

This faith ministry continues to exist because of help from the Lord through caring committed Christians. Each week, Volunteers send out packets, respond to letters, grade lessons, do filing, process mail, and much more. Prayer Warriors meet every week to pray for the needs of this ministry and for the prisoners who send their specific requests to us. Faithful Partners send in donations to this established, non-profit organization. Since there are no salaries to pay, all monies are prayerfully and carefully used to provide quality Bible study materials, office supplies, postage, office equipment, promotional materials, etc.

Exodus Prison Ministry
PO Box 6363
Lubbock, TX 79493-6363
806-791-3673

 

Emmanuel Baptist Church

In the Spring of 2006, Highland began supporting Emmanuel Church, an Hispanic church which meets on Tuesday night in our facilities.  They grew from 20 to over 75 members in the first six months, and are continuing to reach new families.  We look forward to our relationship with them in future events, like VBS, etc.

 

Mission Church in Eagle, Idaho

 

Highland supports Eagle Hills Baptist Church in Eagle, Idaho, with monthly financial aid, prayers, and with their quarterly newsletter.  We have sent several work groups up there to help with VBS and to survey the community.

Southern Baptists have been working in Idaho for about 50 years. Eagle is a suburb of Boise, the capital of Idaho and a town of 145,000. In Boise, there are only seven churches, with a total attendance on Sunday of less than 500. That equals out to a church for every 20,713 persons!

Before he passed away in 2005, we worked closely with Rev. Royce Shoemate, the  pastor of Eagle Hills. Royce said, "Sometimes the task seems overwhelming and often discouraging. With 30 new churches desperately needed right now in our association, we sometimes wonder why there are so few laborers in such a gigantic harvest field. Jesus said in Mt 9:37-38 '...The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore to send out workers into his harvest field.'

"We need 'sent ones' here for the harvest. Unless they are 'sent', they will not come. Unless we 'ask' them they will not be sent. Please join us in prayer that God will send many laborers into this great harvest field."

Eagle Hills Baptist Church
PO Box 851 Eagle
Idaho 83616

Lubbock Korean Baptist Church
   Highland  supported a Korean  church that is met in our annex on for 5 years until they became an independent church is 2004.  Originally led by Dr. Joon Park, a pediatric cardiologist at University Medical Center,  the group consisted of about 70 graduate students and their families.   Their current pastor is Song Kang.
    Our Korean group became a mission church with BGCT support in 2000.      On Labor Day of 2000, our Korean Church began a Bible study group in Canyon with the cooperation of Calvary Baptist Church there. That groups continues to meet on Sunday evenings.

Baby Closet
  Another  ministry involves teenage mothers who need help with supplies for their infants.    Most of these young mothers find their lifestyles have rapidly changed, and have little support.  We have begun to address their needs by supplying as diapers, clothing, car seats, cribs, humidifiers, etc. 
    This ministry is expanding into new opportunities, such as mentoring, Bible study, nursing care, etc.    
    Recently, our church members adopted these children for our Angel Tree project and provided over 300 presents for the babies. 

Angel Tree



Each year during the Christmas season, the Women’s Ministry sponsors an Angel Tree project. Children are asked to fill out requests for what they want for Christmas, and these requests are written on Angels. Church members pick up the angels and purchase the presents.

Each year, a different area ministry is supported.  This past year, we adopted Buckners Children's Home.