Northside On Missions

Mission Columbia is the Outreach Ministry for Northside Baptist Church. Our ministry is designed to reach out to the community and help families with food, clothes and hope for a better future. Our volunteers consist of mostly senior adults who interact with clients to project wisdom, share their views of life, hoping to interject some knowledge for families that are struggling in life. Our hope at Mission Columbia is that our presence in the community will change lives, make a difference and be a shining radiant light for those around us.

Children have a safe, secure, loving environment at Connie Maxwell. We are a home for some children who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected and some who have been placed by loving caregivers going through difficult situations. In addition to the main campus in Greenwood, Connie Maxwell Children’s Home provides residential care and family support through satellite locations in Chesterfield, Mauldin, Orangeburg and Florence. Each year more than 200 children of diverse needs and backgrounds call Connie Maxwell home. Some children stay as little as a few months, others for many years. Some arrive alone, others with siblings. Most are between the ages of six and eighteen. Children who remain through high school graduation receive financial support for college.

We believe that the gospel is needed all across the globe, and we seek to take it there. Join us as we seek the Lord’s leadership to EMBRACE an unengaged unreached people group (UUPG) somewhere in the Middle East. These are exciting days! Follow the EMBRACE link below and become more familiar with what it means to adopt a UUPG. Join us in praying for the Lord to unify our leadership in knowing which UUPG to EMBRACE. And then, join us as we are obedient to His call to bring this UUPG to the throne of grace.

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.

NEXT TRIP: June 13-20, 2026

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

NEXT TRIP: June 10-19, 2026

Interest Meeting: February 1 at 12:30pm in Room 132 of the Lexington Campus

South Asia has been a land of darkness for many years. The area of the Awadhi is now ranked 12th on the 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: 2027