Foothills Baptist Church

ANGEL TREE CHRISTMAS-PRISON FELLOWSHIP

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This ministry reaches out to the children of prisoners. Prisoners request, through their prison chaplain, that Christmas presents be given to their children on their behalf. After the children’s caregivers are contacted and gift requests given, the FBC congregation purchases the gifts, wraps them, and then delivers the gifts either at a Christmas party or personally to the individual homes. Volunteers from the FBC congregation are ambassadors of Christ to the children, the caregivers, and the inmate. They represent the inmate to their children, letting them know they are loved.

Contact person: Sharon Pace | foothillsbaptist.org

RIO VISTA CENTER – THE BRIDGE

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Rio Vista Center, 14th St. & Southern Ave., Phoenix, is an outreach to the homeless and working poor. Food and clothing are available at no charge each week, Tuesday – Thursday from 9:00 – 11:00 AM. FBC has an annual Food Drive in the early spring to help restock the Center’s food room. A green cart is placed in front of the FBC sanctuary each Sunday for those who want to contribute weekly. An FBC Clothing Drive in the late spring helps fill the racks in the clothing room.

The Center provides the facility for The Bridge, a church that meets there every Sunday, 8:00 AM and 10:45 AM. A meal, “The Sunday Brunch” is provided at no charge for all those who attend a church service.

Contact person: Sharon Pace | foothillsbaptist.org

CHRISTIAN CHALLENGE

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Christian Challenge is a Southern Baptist ministry to college students located on the campus of Arizona State University. Christian Challenge exists for the purpose of providing weekday ministry to Christian students such as; “Overflow” a weekly worship experience, and “Lifegroups,” a small group discipleship experience meeting in campus housing. Christian Challenge also has an evangelistic focus through training students in personal evangelism, evangelistic outreach events, and mission trips both in the USA and internationally. Christian Challenge is focused on guiding students to meaningful involvement in a local church as well as developing students in leadership.

The adopted purpose statement of Christian Challenge ASU is: “to live… as a community of believers joyfully pursuing Jesus and allowing him to overflow in our lives so that we may develop disciple makers to reach ASU and the ends of the earth.”

Foothills contributes financially to Christian Challenge monthly and desires to support the ministry to students at ASU through Christian Challenge in a hands on manner as needs are made known.

UGANDA

New Hope Nursery and Primary School and Orphanage are located on 10 acres of hillside about 10 miles outside the city of Kampala, Uganda. It began in 2002 with 100 students and a handful of teachers. It was opened to the public in April 2004, and today there are more than 400 students and 26 staff members. Half of the students live at the school.

Ugandan Pastor Christopher Lubega and his wife Agnes, in response to a great need, founded New Hope. Many of their church members were dying because of war, AIDS, malaria, and other illnesses. As a result, they were leaving the responsibility of their orphaned children to the church in their wills.

Current classes serve ages 3 through 7th grade. There are 30-50 students per classroom. The children are instructed in all the basic subjects, and they also receive a strong Christian foundation. Many have come to receive Jesus Christ as personal Lord and Savior. Members of Foothills Baptist sponsor over 100 children with $25 monthly donations. A team from Foothills has visited New Hope each June since 2003 to minister to the students.

ANNIE ARMSTRONG EASTER OFFERING

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The NAMB exists to proclaim the gospel in the United States, Canada and the U.S. Territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands). The Board was formed in 1997, combining the Home Mission Board, Radio and Television Commission and the Brotherhood Commission. There are more than 5,000 missionaries through NAMB and involved in: Church Planting, Evangelism, Mission Service Corps and as Chaplains. The mission efforts are also supported by over 250,000 volunteers each year.

The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering goes directly to fund two major areas: evangelism and church planting. Southern Baptists are starting more than 1,700 churches every year.

The FBC Missions Ministry promotes the offering. This is usually done over a period of weeks in which the congregation is educated about various NAMB mission projects and activities. This is important, in order to teach church members what God is doing in this ministry, how they might get involved and to let them know that 100% of money taken up in the offering goes to the field.

LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERING

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The FBC Missions Ministry promotes the offering. This is usually done over a period of weeks in which the congregation is educated about various NAMB mission projects and activities. This is important, in order to teach church members what God is doing in this ministry, how they might get involved and to let them know that 100% of money taken up in the offering goes to the field.

The IMB has 5,074 missionaries under appointment (as of 01/10/06) who were engaged with 1,194 groups in 2004. There were 30,377 volunteers reinforcing the missionaries in 2004. In 2004, IMB workers and their Baptist partners overseas reported a record 607,132 baptisms and 99,495 overseas churches. Church membership overseas in 2004 was a record 7.4 million.

The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering has been much more than the solicitation and collection of money. It is extremely valuable in that 100% of the funds donated go directly to the missions in the international field. At FBC, the preceding weeks are filled with presentations, literature and sometimes guest speakers. This has been a great opportunity for the Missions Ministry to educate and inspire the congregation about what the SBC’s IMB is and has been doing around the world.

STATE MISSION BOARD

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It’s hard for old-line Arizona Southern Baptists not to get a little misty and wistful about Willis J. Ray. He is to them something akin to what George Washington is to Americans at large… the father of his state convention, as it were.

He helped organize everything in the beginning, was an early resident of the executive director’s chair, gave dozens of newborn churches his pennies and prayers and the necessary nudges (gentle and otherwise). He wrestled Grand Canyon College into existence, and bestowed the initial administrative blessings on what became the Arizona Baptist Children’s Services. More than any of that, though, he set a tone. Simple, straightforward, steady, he preached the gospel of evangelism. The business of Baptists was churches, he believed, and the business of churches was souls. He gave his life to those priorities, and he seared them into the heart of Arizona Southern Baptists.

Every year in September, Arizona Southern Baptist churches, including Foothills Baptist Church, give to the Willis J. Ray State Mission Offering. The offering provides additional support beyond the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention budget for missions and ministries aimed at sharing the gospel with those who don’t know Christ and is used for church plants, disaster relief, and evangelism.