Missions is not just about making long trips. It is about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the homeless and visiting the lonely in our community and around the world. It is about conveying to the world that the ultimate expression of love is found not in what we give them, but what God has given to all of us in His Son, Jesus Christ.
Our local ministry partners in Central Alabama that we monetarily support each month.
Alabama Childhood Food Solutions (ACFS)
https://alabamachildhoodfood.com
Provides food for children and families battling food insecurity whenever and wherever needed while pointing them to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
King’s Home
Provides Christ-centered homes and services to youth, women and kids seeking refuge, hope and help from domestic violence, neglect, abandonment, homelessness, and other difficult and impoverished conditions and circumstances. A place where compassion resides, where love dwells, and where hope lives through Jesus Christ.
Ministry Training Institute of Samford University
https://www.samford.edu/go/mti
Provides quality biblical, theological, and practical ministry courses that equip ministers and lay leaders for service to God for those who do not have the financial means to attend a 4-year school.
OneLife Ministries
https://onelifeministries.info
Assists women through the written Word of God to regain their life. Located in Trafford, AL, this ministry provides a faith-based, God-centered life recovery program for women.
Shelby Baptist Food Bank
Shelby Baptist Association’s Hunger Ministry provides food, baby food, diapers (baby and adult), household cleaning supplies, personal hygiene and feminine hygiene products to families in crisis.
LIFE Ministries
http://www.lifeministriesnow.com
Guides individuals and couples in a process of discovering God's heart through teaching, writing and spiritual direction in order to usher in freedom through Jesus Christ.
Elisha St. James, Pastor of Church United
New church plant in Oneonta, AL – focuses on impacting communities through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Each September, once we reach our monthly budget needs, all other monies collected are distributed to approved local organizations across Central Alabama.
Be the Change Health and Wellness
Assists those in poor underserved communities by addressing food insecurities and lack of basic health resources.
Christian Service Mission
Serves the greater Birmingham area for Christ and works alongside churches in order to build healthy communities that reflect oneness with Christ.
Grace Klein Community
https://gracekleincommunity.com/
Works to unite diverse individuals, businesses, ministries and churches to share resources, meeting physical and spiritual needs locally and globally.
Serving You Ministries
Provides food, clothing and helps paying bills to needy families.
Blanket Fort Hope
Supplies therapeutic housing, support services, foster-care training and ongoing advocacy to child survivors of human trafficking.
Presbyterian Home for Children
Provides a faith-based safe haven for children and their caregivers through programs which nurture, educate and equip individuals to become the fully functioning persons God created them to be.
Raleigh’s Place
Serves between 300-400 foster and adopted children and children in relative placement every year through foster homes, Camp 1:27, Katie’s Kloset and Workmanship Initiative.
Abiding Hearts Ministry
Cares for the homebound and elderly widows in our community.
Anchor Community Respite Ministry, Inc.
Provides fellowship and stimulation to people who are living with memory loss due to dementia or stroke. Anchor operates every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CT at Asbury UMC in Shelby County.
aTeam Ministries
https://www.ateamministries.org
Offers spiritual, financial, emotional support, and “Home Away from Home” lodging to children and families on their pediatric cancer journey.
Awaken
Provides Gospel-based and therapeutically sound recovery resources and community for people impacted by sexual brokenness, addiction and trauma.
Hearts in Hand, Inc.
Shares God's grace and shows God's love by serving the community. This includes low-income homeowners in Jefferson and Shelby County, primarily the elderly and disabled, who need assistance to stay safely in their homes.
Libby’s Friends
Seeks to ease the financial burden of people living with a disability.
Rainbow Omega
Seeks to glorify God by ensuring that adults with developmental disabilities have a safe home where their abilities and potentials are respected and nurtured in a Christian environment.
Samaritan’s Purse
https://www.samaritanspurse.org
Provides spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world and promotes the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This global organization meets needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God’s love and through His Son, Jesus Christ. * DOCC contributed a one-time monetary donation to help with Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.
Sav-A-Life, Inc. (dba Alabama Pregnancy Test Center)
Serves women, men and families facing an unplanned pregnancy situation.
The Foundry
https://foundryministries.com/
Restore hopes, rebuild lives and provides a haven where the addict and destitute experience the love of Christ, find freedom and discover purpose via Christ-centered ministries.
Thrive
Provides free or low-cost Biblically-based counseling, coaching and training in the areas of individual addiction and couples and family systems education and support.
Hope’s Door Inc.
Brings hope and purpose to women broken by the trauma of domestic violence, abuse, homelessness, addiction and trafficking.
OneLife Ministries
https://onelifeministries.info
Assists women through the written Word of God to regain their life. Located in Trafford, AL, this ministry provides a faith-based, God-centered life recovery program for women.
My Sister’s Place
Provides a Biblically-based 12-month residential life recovery program for women.
The Deeper House
https://www.thedeeperhouse.com
Serves at-risk women who are struggling to get back on their feet. Committed to providing excellent programs and services that allow women to recognize and begin to live in their God-given identity and reach their full potential as they fulfill God’s purposes for them.
The Well House
Offers restoration to women and children who have been victims of human trafficking.
Sav-A-Life Shelby
Develops a culture of life where abortion is unnecessary and undesirable in Shelby County while offering the hope of the gospel.
Brother Bryan Mission
Seeks to minister to the economically, emotionally and spiritually impoverished in the central Alabama area.
Turning Point Foundation
Provides men with substance use disorder an opportunity to discover a new life in recovery through a Christ centered emphasis.
Bigtime Ministries
https://www.bigtimeministries.com
Disciples students through Bible studies, retreats, mission trips, and intentional relationships.
Birmingham Metro Baptist Association’s Discovery Clubs
Brings the Gospel to public schools through after school programs in the Birmingham metro area.
Birmingham Theological Seminary
Provides an affordable, nationally-accredited, quality reformed theological education through a variety of accessible learning options.
First Priority of Alabama
https://firstpriority.com and prioritykids.com
Conducts campus ministry in public schools by equipping students to take the Gospel to their peers.
The Gideons International/Bible Distribution, Evangelism
Strives to make the Word of God available to everyone and, together with the local church, reaching souls for Christ.
Hargis Christian Camp
Provides a beautiful, tranquil setting for Christian summer camps and weekend retreats – for churches and Christian organizations.
https://hargischristiancamp.org
Oak Tree Ministries
Serves adults and students in the Marks Village Public Housing Community and delivers Bible Club bags on a monthly basis.
Renovate Ministries
Encourages and counsels pastors and their wives.
Young Life
Outreaches to middle school, high school, and college students – building bridges of authentic friendship, and introducing them to Jesus Christ.
For more information regarding the Give United process, please visit: https://docc.org/giveunited.
Rick & Deb Kesecker – Rick & Deb are the Founders of Two Feathers Ministries which serves members of First Nations tribes in Choctaw, Mississippi and Yakama, Washington.
McKinley Indian Mission – supports the McKinley Indian Mission Church of Christ which ministers to members of the First Nations tribes in Yakama, Washington.
Agape Christian Mission (ACM) – A mission founded and overseen by Natesan & Pricilla Rajan in Tamil Nadu, India. ACM provides an orphanage, a Bible college for training in evangelism, a leper care ministry, a Living Water Project that provides water wells, and training in church planting.
Hannah Blazer -Missionary serving in the United Kingdom with Campus Outreach International.
Will & Olivia Beers – Missionaries serving in Tirana, Albania with World Reach, Inc.
Mike Bowles – Mike serves as Advancement Director for Back2Back Ministries, an international ministry that partners with nationals to provide holistic care to orphaned children.
Ministry sites include: Cancun, Mexico, Linares, Mexico, Mazatlan, Mexico, Monterrey, Mexico, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Santiago, Dominican Republic, Jos, Nigeria and Hyderabad, India.
Back2Back Ministries – A Voice for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children
Hector & Angelina Estrada– Missionaries serving in Siguatepeque, Honduras with World Reach, Inc.
Simón & Laura Flórez – Missionaries serving in Armenia, Colombia with World Reach, Inc.
Noel & Reina Gomez – Missionaries serving in Paso Hondo, Honduras and Balibrea, Honduras with World Reach, Inc.
Stephen Hellier – Missionary serving in Chiang Mai, Thailand with Campus Outreach International.
David Johnson – David is the CEO of Doulos Partners, a ministry that works with strategic partners, striving to plant healthy, sustainable, reproducing churches in every village around the globe.
Joni and Friends – Ministry serving people with disabilities, founded by Joni Eareckson Tada. Seeking to glorify God, communicating the Gospel, and mobilizing the global church to evangelize, disciple, and serve people living with disability.
Don & Lynne King – The Kings serve as the Directors of The Lodebar Initiative, a ministry of Global Outreach International, which provides food, clothing, medicine and schooling for Syrian children refugees in Azraq, Jordan and rural tent villages.
J & M K - Missionaries serving in Northeast Africa with Reaching & Teaching International Ministries.*
Maddie Lebeter - Missionary serving in Chiang Mai, Thailand with Campus Outreach International.
Cristi & Rebeca Lucaci – Cristi is the Headmaster of Wurmbrand Academy, a Christian School in Iasi, Romania. DOCC also contributes to Wurmbrand Teachers Support as part of our partnership with the Wurmbrand Christian Foundation.
Doni & Albina Mehmeti – Missionaries serving in Prishtina, Kosovo with Mission to the World.
P & L M - Missionaries serving in the Middle East with Global Outreach International.*
Show and Share God's Love | Global Outreach International - Global Outreach International
Kristian Perdomo - Missionary serving in San Pedro Sula, Honduras with World Reach.
R & T R - Missionaries in the Middle East with Daybreak Development Ministries.*
Sozo Children – Provides a children’s home for orphans in Uganda. This ministry seeks to rescue children from extreme poverty, abuse and abandonment and provides care, development and discipleship.
T & T S - Missionaries serving in Turkey with East-West Ministry.*
Ian Thomson – Ian is the Founder & President of Bringing Good News a multinational mission organization with ministry locations in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sudan, South Sudan, & Mozambique.
International Ministry of Jesus – Anne-Marie Touliatos is the Director of International Ministry of Jesus, which has ministry locations in Ecuador and Tanzania.
Jeff Waites – Jeff is the Founder of Global Village Renewal with ministry locations in Southeast India.
Bobby Wilson – Bobby serves as the CEO of World Reach, Inc., a global, evangelical missions organization with 120 missionaries in 14 countries. Seeking to fulfill The Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
YUGO Ministries – Serving the impoverished people of Ensenada Mexico by sharing the Gospel and constructing houses.
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