Agape Women on Mission: Agape Women is a missions-minded women’s group that focuses on mission activities and prayer support for local missions as well as our missionaries around the world. Agape Women engage in several annual and many on-going mission projects including a children clothes closet, an Appalachian Children’s Christmas outreach, Operation Christmas Child, and more.

FBC has developed a partnership with one of our local elementary schools. Each week, we discreetly provide backpacks to 26 children who live in food insecure homes. These packs are filled with enough food to feed a child through the weekend.

FBC has two major Christmas mission projects. We work with Baptists on Mission to fill backpacks with items for underprivileged children in the coal fields of the Appalachians. We also work with Samaritan's Purse on Operation Christmas Child. Our goal for both of our Christmas mission projects is to share the love of Christ by sending much-needed items to children around the world who are affected by poverty, war, natural disasters, famine, and disease.

Join us as we partner with the Morrowtown Community Group and other members of our community in helping to create the Morrowtown Community Garden. This garden is in our neighborhood on an acre lot at the corner of S. Mebane Street and Clay Street, just a couple of blocks down from our church.

Our Community Closet resources many of our children and youth with basic necessities. We help provide school supplies, clothes, personal hygiene products.

Currently we are focused on collecting items our students will need when they return to school in August. There is a list of needed items below.

Community Closet Donation Needs:

 College Ruled Paper

 Highlighters

 Glue Sticks

 Pencil Holders for Binders

 Small Width Binders

 Pencil Tip Erasers

 Backpacks

FBC has developed a partnership with Elon University to serve international students. Our international students are a long way from home! We work to make them feel at home in Burlington. We connect with them, host events for them, and encourage them.

This name is short for Knitting Witnesses. This Sunday afternoon knitting group is for people of all ages and abilities. They knit baby caps and prayer shawls for people in our community. Don’t know how to knit? No problem. We will teach you!

Men On Missions exists to help those who can no longer help themselves. The MOM projects include changing light bulbs, transporting church members to medical appointments, yard work, painting, minor home improvements, moving furniture, cleaning gutters, repairing or painting, building handicapped ramps and porches for the disabled, minor plumbing, repairing door locks, trimming trees, loaning a variety of handicapped wheelchairs, walkers and beds to those in need, shoveling snow, installing handrails, and other requests.

FBC has missionaries in many parts of the world who are actively seeking to help those in need and to share the love of Christ. We fund, pray for, and work in various ways to support our members and others who are called to mission work. FBC also gives funding to support the mission programs and initiatives of the CBF and SBC.

CURRENT PROJECT (Summer 2024)

Our missionary friend, Carolyn is currently in the United States. While she is here we like to collect cards for her to take with her when she returns to her post. It is difficult to get mail to her on the mission field. As a way of offering encouragement and support, we write notes of encouragement, and send cards for her to open on her birthday and on different holidays. Cards will be collected until August 25, 2024. Please be sure to note on the outside envelope when the card should be opened.

In our Thrive Tutoring program we work with students from Grove Park Elementary school to help increase their reading skills. Each child receives a personal tutor who works with him or her each week. Our tutors work to build meaningful relations, to teach and encourage students and to share the love of Christ. Our hope is to help these children thrive in God’s abundant life!

Our WMU (Woman’s Missionary Union) has been a significant part of the missions and ministries of FBC for many years. WMU offers many mission opportunities to our membership throughout the year including our annual Annie Armstrong, Global Missions, and Lottie Moon Offerings. Our Agape Women On Mission host an annual school supply collection to support our teachers.

Each summer we collect school supplies to donate to our teachers. We appreciate the work our teachers do and want to help lessen the personal expense of resources for their classrooms and students. This year our collection will run through August 18. A list of needed items is below.

Teacher Supply List (Donations will be received through August 18, 2024):

Copy Paper – White, Pastels and Bright Colors

Cardstock – White & Colors

Hand Sanitizer

Tissues

Manilla File Folders

Bandages – Various Skin tone or fun patterns

Large Safety Pins

Pens

Sharpies

Pocket Folders

1” Binders

Pencils

Colored Pencils or Crayons

Wide Ruled Notebook Paper

Glue Sticks

Thin Expo Markers

Regular Expo Markers

Legal Size White Envelopes

Cap Erasers

Craft Supplies – White Glue, Tissue Paper, Etc.

Small Paper Plates

Sanitizing Wipes

Paper Towels

Individually Wrapped Candy

Pink Pearl Erasers

Ziplock Bags (All sizes)