Global Mission Trips

GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES

APPALACHIA MISSION*

Jim Harris

For the past 16 years, folks from Northside have gone into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky to share God’s love with a culture that desperately needs hope.  While there, this group puts together vacation Bible schools for both children and adults.  Adult VBS is held in adult centers and a nursing home. Children’s VBS is held in the morning at a Daycare and in the evenings at different churches. They conduct a food drive at local grocery stores to replenish the food pantry, “kit up” several boxes of the food and go into the hollers to share the love of Jesus along with the food.

This mission takes place the 2nd week of June each year.

2025 TRIP DATES: June 7-14, 2025
INTEREST MEETING: Sunday, April 6, 2025 immediately following the 3rd service in Room 135.

CHILE MISSION*

Pastor David Ford

Northside partners with a small church and Pastor Miguel Morales to help grow one of their mission church plants in Catemu, a rural community north of Santiago, Chile.  They conduct Backyard Bible Clubs, teach evangelism classes, minister to the men and women in the community, hand out tracts, visit countless homes and share the Gospel in a variety of ways.  Our team assist the church in reaching their community through various outreaches (i.e., Adult & children VBS programs, School programs, House visits and more.  Pray as the church in Catemu as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.

Annual 10-day trip

2025 TRIP DATES: June 8-17, 2025
INTEREST MEETING: Sunday, February 23, 2025 immediately following the 3rd service in Room 132

COSTA RICA STUDENT MISSION TRIP

Pastor Matthew Purvis

This is Northside Students first internation mission trip.  We are partnering with GC2 Ministries (https://www.gc2ministries.org/) by leading a VBS program and youth outreaches. GC2 aims to plant churches and make disciples.  The team comes in by helping a church plant reach their community in a way they otherwise could not do to lack of people and resources.  What a mission team accomplishes in one week can take a local church plant 3 months to accomplish.

2025 TRIP DATES: June 6-13, 2025
The team is full – 16 students and 4 leaders.

AWADHI PEOPLE – SOUTH ASIA

Donna Scarboro

South Asia has been a land of darkness for many years.  The area of the Awadhi is now on the top-10 watch list for Christian persecution.  As reported by Open Doors USA, in the most recent year at least 12,500 Christians and about 100 churches have been attacked – and this is only from documented incidents.  The good news is that God continues to work in a mighty way, making His name known to Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.  In our 19th year of ministering in South Asia, we are incredibly blessed to partner with our national pastor, a dedicated man of God who, with his family and staff work tirelessly to spread the gospel to the unreached people groups of South Asia.

This is an annual 10-day mission trip. We typically send a team in the beginning months of the calendar year.

NEXT TRIP: 2026

BRAZIL MISSION*

Josh Gregory

Northside partners with World Nations International to strengthen local partners and equip nationals in Brazil. We hope to multiply our efforts through leadership training to encourage nationals to reach their own people. Areas available to serve:  Biblical foundation training (teaching about spiritual discipline, Christian family, Pastoral counseling, God’s character, evangelism). Leadership skills and management (project management, fundraising, cultivating partnerships), Construction project, Kids ministry and Evangelism with local missionaries.

NEXT TRIP: 2026

INDONESIA MISSION

Matt Geary

Northside partners with World Nations International in Indonesia, where we assist with a Mission Training Center in Indonesia. We work with over 100 college students training them in theology, sustainable agriculture, business as mission, and community healthcare.  Our desire is to see these students work among the unreached people groups of Indonesia to multiply disciples and plant churches.

Annual 10-day trip, various times of the year

NEXT TRIP: 2026

Disaster Relief

George and Natalie Poepping

Disaster Relief (DR) is an excellent ministry for people who enjoy serving others.  Some DR work interacts directly with the victims, some is behind the scenes, some is physically demanding, and some is less tiring.  Most people can participate in some aspect of DR, which include mass cooking, chain saw, child care, laundry, shower, mud out, ash out, chaplaincy, rebuild and others. We have teams that have served in Chile, Texas, Maryland, Alabama, and Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, North Carolina and several times in South Carolina.

*Mission Trip that is friendly to all ages and especially family friendly. For more information on joining a team, please contact Diana Moore with the Office of Missions at 803-520-9544 or dmoore@northsidebaptist.org.