Reaching the United States

In Acts 1:8 Jesus commands us to go to Judea and Samaria, and for our church, that is the United States.  Most Christians do not realize that the US is the third largest mission field on the planet.  In the recent past most of the world's missionaries came from the US, but that is no longer the case.  South Korea has now surpassed the US number in total missionaries, and most of their missionaries are sent to the Untied States.  Listed below are some opportunities through Grand Avenue Baptist Church that you can be a part of reaching the United States for Jesus Christ.  If you have any questions, please contact our Mission Pastor, Scott Ward at scott@grandfamily.net.  And be sure to check out the City for updates, new mission trips, and sign ups.

Download and fill out our new Mission Application.  (This application is required for all of our mission trips).

Fort Worth, Texas - Chris & Cheryl Read are volunteers working with Bhutanese refugees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  We are just getting this partnership started and will be taking a vision trip there soon.  Please check back here for updates.

Anchorage, Alaska - Alaska is considered the least-reached state in the entire US.  Brent & Carrie Williams (follow Brent on Twitter) answered God's call to go there from Van Buren, Arkansas, and have since planted True North Church which has two campuses running.  True North is the first successful SBC church plant in Anchorage in over 15 years.  Will & Eryn Cole have just recently moved there from South Carolina to help the William's in their work.  We are excited to be able to partner with this exciting and growing church plant.

We will be taking a team of college students there over Spring Break, and we will take another trip made up of anyone who wants to go on July 14-21, 2012.  During this trip we will host many block parties in order to reach out and build relationships with the people of Anchorage and prayerfully connect them to Jesus and True North Church.  Click here for more information about the July trip.

Riverton, Wyoming - Sitting in the Northwest corner of Wyoming, next to Yellowstone, is the barren Wind River Indian Reservation home to the least-reached tribe in all of the United States - the Northern Arapaho Tribe.  They are a people group that has unsuccessfully mixed Catholicism with their native religion to create a confusing mixture of ideas that gives no hope.  Drug and alcohol abuse is rampant.  The suicide rate is extremely high.  We have partnered with Dale & Charlotte Bascue in Riverton, Wyoming, to reach this lost tribe for Christ.

We will be taking a trip on July 20-28 in order to finish us some building projects and host a Backyard Bible Club in the small village of Beaver Creek.  This is a family-friendly mission trip, and anyone is invited to join us.  There will be limited room on the charter bus, so be sure and sign-up early!  Click here for more information about this trip.