Missions

Missions is a core part of our DNA. Eastminster partners with more than 50 missionary families and organizations across the city, state and world.

We believe we all GO, to the ends of the street and the ends of the earth. We invite you to join with us in the Great Commission – through praying, sending, giving and going.

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Local & US Missions

Our Vision

To come alongside mission partners in our city, state and nation through encouragement, support and prayer to see lives transformed with the gospel of Jesus Christ
To encourage and equip Eastminster members to actively engage in outreach opportunities

Serve with Us

Join other Eastminster volunteers in ministry opportunities!

Local Missionary Care Teams

Local Missions organizes into 3 teams to care for our missionary partners. Each team champions their partners through prayer and regular communication. Teams tour ministry organizations, host visiting missionaries, and seek volunteer opportunities for the congregation to get involved. They meet monthly or every other month in someone’s home.

We invite you to join a local missionary care team! Contact local@eastminster.org to learn more.

Team ICT – The Wichita Outreach Team : Serves partners in ICT, like Union Rescue Mission, HopeNet and Embrace
Team Y&S – Youth & Student Team : Serves partners that impact students, like YoungLife, Westminster Woods & Youth Horizons
Team RNO – Regional & National Team : Serves partners that impact our region or nation, like Navigators, World Impact, and our denomination’s church planters and US missionaries

Washington School

At Eastminster we LOVE our city! We want to see the Lord bless and redeem Wichita, and we want to be an active part of seeing it thrive. One way we do this is by partnering with Washington Elementary School, which serves families in the 259 district. Our goal is to serve and bless the teachers, staff, kids and families at Washington and display the love of Jesus in tangible ways. Learn more on how to serve Washington School>>

International Student Ministry

Eastminster Church partners with ISI (International Students, Inc.) to reach out to the nations on our doorstep. We serve WSU international students, welcoming them into our homes and lives, and introducing them to the love of Jesus.

Volunteer with us in the following ways…

Table-n-Talk Ministry (TNT) – International students enjoy a homecooked meal and fellowship with us every Monday night in someone’s home. After dinner, we offer a cultural discussion and Bible study. You can serve as a cook, driver, discussion leader, bible discovery coach, or just come and hang out with students. You can also donate a pizza (or 3!) to help feed our hungry crowd.
Friendship Partner –ISI can match you with an international student. You connect several times a month to have English conversations, enjoy meals together, attend events and share all kinds of mutual interests. You can include your international friend in family activities and holidays, and international students often find a “home away from home” in these friendships. Click here to apply
Seasonal Activities – Join us to collect, donate, and give away furniture and household items to 400+ new students at The Great Giveaway every August, or host 2-3 students in your home for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Contact Wendy Ferguson, Asst. Director of Missions for more info: wferguson@eastminster.org

Seasonal Opportunities

Thanksgiving Boxes
Giving Tree
GO ICT

Serve our City

Check out these opportunities to serve our city from a few of our local partners!

HopeNet

HopeNet is a faith-based nonprofit organization transforming lives through coaching and counseling. For 30 years HopeNet has provided mental health services based on clients’ ability to pay – all made possible by donor support. Learn how to serve >>

Union Rescue Mission

The Union Rescue Mission operates a 24/7 emergency overnight shelter for homeless men, a six-month residential program for men recovering from a life of homelessness and addiction. Learn how to serve >>

Youth Horizons

Youth Horizons’ mission is to empower children and their families to become healthy, productive members of our community and to create a nationwide awareness for the needs of at-risk youth. Staff members match hundreds of at-risk kids with Christian adult mentors. Mentor/protégé matches are supported year-round and mentors are provided with training opportunities and many planned mentoring events. Learn how to serve >>

Hope Ranch for Women

Hope Ranch is dedicated to empowering women who have been exploited and abused to rise above their circumstances. Hope Ranch currently offers faith-based learning, mentoring and a residential home so that women can be free and healed from the physical, mental, and spiritual effects of exploitation. We want survivors to experience God’s love and grace in tangible ways, live in the fullness of who God created them to be, and fully integrate and thrive within their community. Learn how to serve >>

ISI

International Students, Inc. has been assisting international students and scholars adjust to life in the US and promoting cross-cultural friendships between students, scholars and American friends since 1953. Much of the reason behind the success of this ministry is the faithful service of 100’s of volunteers who give of their time in a wide range ways. Learn how to serve >>

Westminster Woods

Westminster Woods Camp is a Christian camp dedicated to the glory of God by helping campers of all ages build and strengthen their relationship with Christ, and with each other, through time set aside for Christian education, prayer, worship and play. “The Woods” is the setting for retreats and camps hosted by Eastminster and other area organizations. Learn how to serve >>

Embrace

Embrace is a no-cost Christ-centered pregnancy center. Embrace needs committed Christian women and men who will share the unconditional love of Christ and speak His truth to the clients who enter our door. Learn how to serve >>

World Impact

Church leaders with no formal theological training want to reach their cities with the Gospel by creating healthy churches that help individuals, families, and neighborhoods. World Impact has helped pastors and workers from around the world receive training that transforms their ministry and their communities. Your generosity helps urban ministry leaders get trained, discipled, and lead their own ministries.

Learn how to serve >>

Young Life

Young Life is a Christian ministry that reaches out to middle school, high school, and college students in all 50 of the United States and in more than 100 countries around the world. Young Life’s mission is to reach students where they’re at and introduce them to a life with Christ. Learn how to serve >>

Global Outreach

Our Vision

To facilitate disciple making movements and the planting of Gospel-centered churches, focusing primarily on unreached and unengaged peoples

Why?

• More than 25% of the world’s people groups are considered “unreached” with the gospel. This makes up more than 40% of the world’s population.
• Only 2% of all money given globally toward missions go toward the unreached.
• Only one in 10 international missionaries go to serve the unreached and unengaged

Regions

Eastminster world missions is organized into regions, focused on unreached areas of the globe.

The Balkans (Albania, North Macedonia, Romania)
East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania)
Legacy (Ministering globally, or outside the defined regions)
MENA – Middle East & North Africa – (Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Spain, and other sensitive nations)

Serve with Us

Join with other Eastminster volunteers in ministry opportunities!

World Missionary Care Teams

World Missions organizes into 4 teams to care for our missionary partners. Each team champions their partners through prayer and regular communication. Teams host visiting missionaries, help coordinate mission trips, and look for opportunities to involve the congregation in global outreach. They meet monthly or every other month in someone’s home.

We invite you to join a world missionary care team! Contact world@eastminster.org to learn more.

Team Balkans – Albania, North Macedonia, Romania
Legacy (Ministering globally, or outside the defined regions)
Team East Africa – Kenya, Tanzania
Team MENA – Middle East & N. Africa

Short-Term Mission Trips

We all GO, to the ends of the street and the ends of the earth. Each year, Eastminster offers a variety of trips for various age groups. We invite you to join with us, as we share the good news here, there and everywhere.

Upcoming Trips include:

Spain, Oct 14-22, 2023
Oman, March 2-9, 2024
Mexico, June 14 – 21, 2024

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Missions Events

october

14octAll Day22Spain Mission Trip

15octAll Day29Coats for Kids

28oct8:30 am12:00 pmGO Eastminster

november

05nov12:30 pmLet's Taco-Bout Missions: Spain Mission Trip Review

16novAll DayThanksgiving Food Boxes

19novAll DayThe Giving Tree

Event Details

Date TBA

We’re partnering with Youth Horizons to provide gifts for at-risk kids who need not only the joy of receiving a Christmas present, but also to know they are valued, loved and prayed for. Stop by The Giving Tree in the lobby and choose the name of a child to bless with Christmas gifts. Then, shop for the gifts on their list (between $40-50), wrap them, and return them to church along with a personal note. Return the wrapped gifts to the church (date TBA). We also have the opportunity to bless the parents of these children through a $10 gift card per family. We can’t wait to see how God uses these simple acts of giving to impact the hearts of kids here in Wichita!

The Giving Tree
1. Step 1 – Choose the name of a child (or parent) from The Giving Tree at church. Each child has shared a few ideas of things they would like to receive.
2. Spend no more than $50 and no less than $40 on gifts for each child. (We recommend that you buy at least two gifts for each child.)
3. Wrap the gifts (they can be wrapped separately or in the same packaging).
4. Put the first name and last initial on each gift as provided by the profile.
5. Write a note to the child and attach it to a gift or place it inside; this step is essential and a great way to let the child know they are loved by Jesus and being prayed for.
6. Return the gifts to the church date TBA

Please shop for gifts that match the interests listed on the profile of the child you are sponsoring. Remember that some of the older kids like gift certificates and gift cards. All kids love candy!