MISSIONS and MINISTRIES
Vision Statement: Memorial Baptist Church seeks to help connect people to Jesus Christ and to each other.
Mission Statement: Memorial Baptist Church Missions provides opportunities to the congregation where relationships are developed locally and globally that demonstrate the love of God and allow us to bring the gospel to everyone we encounter through our words and actions.
MBC supports the following Mission and Ministries throughout the year
• Charter House providing housing & meals for families/individuals facing homelessness/difficulty. (contact: Jeff Rehbach)
• Crop Walk - An MBC group walk in this fundraiser to end hunger in Addison County (contact: Jeff Rehbach)
• The Women's Center: Pregnancy Resource Center of Addison County (contact: Sandra James & Marie Lennon))
• Habitat for Humanity (contact: Jeff Rehbach)
• H.O.P.E. (Helping to Overcome Poverty’s Effects) A local organization giving help to low income families/individuals
• HOPE Changes Everything - Food program for children in Haiti (Debra Wilkinson)
• Food Shelf of Addison County - Monthly Special Offering
• Bone Builders - provide space (contact: Deborah Dickerson)
• Young Life - Outreach to Addison county High School (contact: Jane Kimble)
• Inter-varsity at Middlebury College (contact: Erick Gong)
• Prison Ministry - Money support of Andrew & Anne May’s work in prisons in South Africa (contact: Lou Nop)
• American Baptist Churches of VT/NH - Regional Office
• Miki and Steve Thrall, missionaries through the arts, France
• Ann and Bill Clemmer, ABC Missionaries with Heal Africa, Republic of Congo
• Audio/Video Ministry - Sunday morning live-stream services (contact: Dutton Smith)
• Sermon Podcast (contact: Dutton Smith)
• Mission Discretionary Fund - covering things like camp scholarships, mission trips, global and local needs (managed by deacons)
• Deacon Fund Offering- for emergency needs of our MBC community (managed and distributed by Deacons)
• VOICES - Arts E-Zine published 2x year (contact: Melinda Williams)
GIVING TO MISSIONS:
The trustees budget money with membership approval for specific ministries that the church body desires to support. Individuals who designate gifts in their offering to one of these ministries helps the church in meeting this
commitment. (Designated money exceeding the budgeted amount will also go to that ministry.)