Missions & Outreach

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the messenger who brings good news, the good news of peace and salvation, the news that the God of Israel reigns!

missionaries in Haiti

The Verse Behind the Name

Isaiah 52:7 is the inspiration behind the name of our missions and outreach ministry, which we call Beautiful Feet. God has given us, as His people, the opportunity to be His hands and feet in making His name famous ​in our community, our nation, and our world. Our priority in every Beautiful Feet initiative is to build meaningful relationships and share the Gospel with those we serve!

Local Outreach

A major part of our mission as a church is to serve our local community. We have several ongoing initiatives that serve those in our area as well as some annual projects that we take on to reach even more people in our local context.

Ongoing Initiatives

On the second Wednesday of each month at 5:00pm to 6:30pm, we open up our Care Center to the community. We currently offer a clothing closet and food pantry that is restocked monthly for all those in need. Volunteers are also invited to sort clothes on Thursdays from 4:30pm – 6:30pm.

Serve

We are now offering free clothes to our guests who visit our campus during our Second Saturday Mobile Food Pantry. This is just another way to love our neighbors well.​

Serve

Man Up is an extension of Engaged. These are men who are willing to “man up” when the need arises throughout the year to serve our community. Projects may involve yard work, disaster relief, helping families in need, etc.

Serve

We have partnered with Golden Harvest Food Bank to provide food to those in need in Columbia County on a monthly basis. Golden Harvest drops off food items and we step in to distribute that food as we open up our campus to be a distribution center, as well as providing delivery of food boxes to people lacking transportation. This gives us an opportunity to serve our community through distributing food, building relationships, and ultimately sharing Christ’s love with others. Food distribution happens on the second Saturday of every month from 9am -10:30am.

Serve

We pick up clothes every other Thursday / Friday between 2pm-5pm and drop off at our storage unit. Clothes are used for our Clothing Closet at the Evans campus and at our Sherwood Care Center.

Serve

Provide weekend meals for high school students! This is a great group project for Community Groups or families. Contact [email protected] with any questions!

You can do this in one of two ways:
OPTION 1:

  • Commit to 1 week per school month
  • Shop for 20 high school students
  • Required non-perishable food items:  Individual sizes – 2 breakfast items, 2 lunch items (container must be microwavable), 2 fruit, 1 bag of chips, 1 bag of cookies in each bag (20 bags total)
  • Bag the food into 20 grocery bags and deliver to church during business hours (M-Thurs, 8:30am to 4pm)

OPTION 2:

  • Purchase any of the items from our Amazon wishlist. They will ship to the church, and we will take care of the rest! church. 

AMAZON LIST

  • Laundromats – pay for someone’s laundry or gift them detergent
  • Teacher & staff appreciation – take snacks to your local school
  • Firehouses & police stations – take snacks or a meal to your local station
  • Trash pick-up at local school
  • Pay for someone’s coffee or meal
  • Take a gift to a neighbor you don’t know
  • Cut your neighbor’s grass when they are not home
  • Provide water & snacks for your postal carrier or delivery person
  • Donate blood at Shepeard Community Blood  Center
  • Invite a new neighbor over for dinner
  • Offer to babysit so a couple or neighbors can have a date night
  • Contact one of these organizations that need volunteers regularly:
    Project Refresh 
    The Bridge CSRA
    Golden Harvest Food Bank 
    Sons of Consolation 
    Prepare for Babies
    Cancer Support Services

Annual Initiatives

We are so excited to support 3 local schools for the 2023-24 school year through Operation Back to School! Teachers have completed a Wish List for school supplies needed in their classrooms. We’re asking Journey to help fulfill their lists over the summer! If you’d like to help distribute the wish list before and after Sunday service, sign up below.
In-Person Supply List
Amazon Supply List

Every year around Christmas, we have the opportunity to brighten the holiday season for families who may need a little more help. Through Angel Tree, we are able to bless neighbors, families, and friends with Christmas gifts. We throw a big party where we distribute the gifts to the families we serve as we celebrate Christmas together.

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Night to Shine is an unforgettable prom night experience, centered on God’s love, for people ages 14 and older with special needs. We host Night to Shine at Journey in February in conjunction with the Tim Tebow Foundation.
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Each November, we encourage community groups, families, and individuals to serve in their communities! Get ideas

Thank you for your extravagant generosity and for loving your neighbors!

Missions Opportunities

Ongoing Mission Partnerships

Each year several adult and student trips are taken to serve other communities both domestically and internationally. Our goals on all mission trips are to develop partnerships that help foster real relationships and to share the Gospel with the people we are serving.

child sponsorship in haiti

We sponsor more than 100 children in the Haitian village of Trouforban with Disciples Village. A $40 monthly sponsorship provides a child with food and an education.

jacksons webBefore their one-year wedding anniversary Jackson and Hannah decided to pack up their lives and move to Kenya in May 2019. After many short-term trips, Jackson and Hannah could no longer ignore the commands of Jesus to go and make disciples. The need for biblically sound churches is great in Northern Kenya and that is why Jackson and Hannah have gone to work and live amongst an unreached people group. They are working in Northern Kenya and spend most of their time doing ministry out in the African bush. They focus primarily on teaching God’s Word using the chronological Bible teaching method. This method teaches the Bible in its entirety to build a foundation for the Gospel to take root. Currently Jackson and Hannah are leading a men’s and women’s fellowship each week where they are continuing to disciple, teach, and shepherd the flock that God has entrusted to them. Their goal is to see that God is glorified through the preaching of His Word and that people come to faith in Christ Jesus. They long to raise up indigenous leaders to go out and share the gospel and make disciples within the unreached tribes of Kenya. ​

boerdingTom & Patti are currently serving in Southern Europe by focusing on Business-as-Missions (BAM). They originally left their secular jobs when God got a hold of their hearts after being involved in several short-term mission trips. They were seeing missionaries who were trying to run businesses, but were struggling with projects/programs they themselves had experience in through their 20+ years in the business world. They chose to walk away from their prime income-generating years to instead invest in the Kingdom by partnering with missionary businesses to help them run more efficiently and be more effective in their mission. They also hope to show others who don’t see themselves as typical “missionaries” how their God-given talents and secular experiences can be used to reach the lost.

west virginia missions teamEach year, Journey sends a group to Fayetteville, West Virginia to serve the local community through Coda Mountain Academy. Our next trip will be September 20-25, 2024. For this trip, we will be doing construction. Looking for people with a construction skill set or background for building. We will be assisting Coda Mountain Academy in expanding their ministry to the community. They are running out of room and are in planning to build. This may also involve clearing land. Complete the trip application form here. To sponsor a team member, click here.

Dominican Republic Mission Trip – June 22-27, 2024. 
For this trip, we will be doing kids ministry and women’s ministry. Every day, we will be ministering to kids with Bible stories, games, crafts, etc. We are also looking for women who would like to teach other women spiritually, share their testimony, life lessons, etc. There may also be opportunity to do some college age ministry as well.  Complete the trip application here. To sponsor a team member, click here.

Contact Us

​If you’d like more info on the missions opportunities above or just have some questions, we’d love to hear from you!