Growing up in the small town of Union, Mississippi, I began learning about missionaries as a preschool child in Sunbeams at First Baptist Church. We learned about the geography, customs, and needs of missionaries all over the world, including the USA.

 

We learned about missionaries like Mildred McWhorter, who developed a great missions ministry in downtown Houston from 1963-1992, and was a mega heroine in Girls Auxiliary. We often collected clothes, food, and supplies to send to the mission centers and some churches sent teams to her centers to help with Vacation Bible School, food distribution, and family emergencies. 

 

Another way our church supported missions in the United States was to encourage everyone in our church to give thirty pieces of silver to the Easter offering.

 
Yes, in the old days, dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars were made of silver. We had offering cards we could slide our coins in and we would start saving up our money after Christmas. We, young and old, would line up at the foot of the cross and lay our cards there to thank Jesus for His love and help to share His love with others.

 
During my husband Mark’s pastorate, we started Girls Auxiliary and Royal Ambassadors in every church we served so that children could learn about other people and their need to know Jesus as their Savior. These children are now adults and many are carrying the torch that we passed on to them. 

 
God has given us many opportunities to share His love through such things as construction, well digging, sharing clean water kits, teaching sewing, and working with men and boys in camps to know Jesus and to share Him with others.

 
I am so thankful for church members at Trinity Baptist who give their time to share God’s love with children and encourage them how to share this love with others they may or may not know. I am thankful for our disaster relief groups who go wherever they are needed to show God’s love. I am thankful for individuals who share their time and resources to help missionaries in many different ways.

 
We are never too young or old to get on board the Mission’s train and join the Lord in His work.

 

 

 

Mission trips can change the lives of the people you meet and unexpectedly, your life.

 
God has called Judy and I to serve the Kenyan people.

 
Our team usually works with two different ministries in Kenya. Principally, we work with International Treasure House Ministries (ITHM). Their focus is to rescue orphan and destitute kids (usually teenage mothers and their babies). They house, educate, equip, and spiritually train them so they will be able to break out of the cycle of poverty. They learn the good news of Jesus and we have witnessed many salvations and baptisms. Our role is to love the kids, training them on things like table etiquette, first aid, healthy relationships, online safety/cyber security, communication skills and goal setting, we also build and repair things. We teach classes for eighth graders at a local school. The classrooms usually have 80 extremely well-behaved kids in very cramped conditions. Not only do we share the gospel of Jesus Christ we also teach subjects like the Holy Spirit and the power of prayer. The kids know we have come a long distance and are very appreciative of that fact. They are free with their love and want to know about Jesus.

 
We also work with Heshima Children’s Center. Heshima in Swahili means dignity. Their mission is to provide dignity for children with disabilities or special needs. Most kids like this are shunned by society and so are their mothers. Heshima provides special education, therapy, medical services, housing, skills training for the moms in sewing or jewelry making. They also provide drinking water for the community from their deep well. Our role is to buy food staples for 12 to 15 impoverished families in the immediate area. We deliver the food and pray with the families for their needs.

 
Trinity helps support these mission trips in several ways. The Trinity Stitchers have made dresses for the girls at ITHM and Heshima. The Bridge Class members have donated love offerings for ITHM.

 
Once you become involved in Missions work you become passionate about it and feel very blessed by God.

 

 

 

Texans on Mission is headquartered in Dallas and mobilizes Christian volunteers to impact the world by sharing God’s love and training the next generation, We do this by sending out an unending stream of volunteers to deliver help, hope and healing in the name of Christ to hurting people in Texas, across the United States and around the world.

 
There are many facets of TXM, including disaster relief, water impact, builders, discipleship as well as Royal Ambassadors.

 
Most of our local involvement is with disaster relief to provide practical help during tragedies by serving hot, nutritious meals and providing access to shower and laundry services as well as our local chainsaw team that removes debris as well as fallen and damaged trees.

 
Other teams clean out and repair homes damaged by floods and fire. We have chaplains that work with the teams to pray with and encourage survivors, offering hope for better days after the storms.

 
Some of our local volunteers have traveled as far as Israel this past year to be trained in kosher cooking as well as being deployed over seven times following strong winds, tornados and hurricanes within Texas and Oklahoma.

 
Our chainsaw team is made up of volunteers from not only Trinity, but from Comfort, Pipe Creek, and Camp Wood. We work side-by-side with other teams following disasters to show the love of Christ.

 
Trinity Baptist Church and Hill Country Baptist Association has helped our organization not only financially, but also through prayer and manpower. We also perform some local work to assist churches and great needs. There is always room for more volunteers. If you would like more information on how to get involved, visit the TXM.org website.

 

 

 

Did you know that over the years many members of Trinity Baptist Church have obeyed Jesus’ call to “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I have commanded.” (Mt. 28: 18-20). In recent years TBC has sent-short term mission teams to the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Mexico and Thailand to name just a few. Those who have gone have discovered that mission work is a powerful experience in doing God’s will. This is regardless of whether they’ve gone on a short-term mission trip or become a career missionary.

 
Missions not only impacts others, but also creates personal transformations in those who go. Some examples of how many have been blessed by their participation in a short-term mission trip is best explained by their personal testimonies about how God has changed them because of their willingness to become a messenger of His good will. Some specific testimonials are included in the TBC 2023 Mission Trip Memories booklet located on the wall bookshelf just outside of the church offices.

 
The goals of your 2025 Trinity Missionary Ministry team are:

1) to help raise funds for scholarships as well as encourage and inform TBC members who wish to go on short term missions’ trips. Information about guidelines for receiving financial aid can be found at TBCK.ORG/missions,

2) to provide limited financial assistance to approved long term career missionaries.

 
We request your financial help. One way you can help is by doing the following: fill in the line on your weekly tithe envelope captioned My Offering to, by writing in the phrase “Short Term Missions” and place the $ amount you want to give on that line.

 
The Trinity Missions Ministry is here to help you get involved. How about joining one of TBC’s mission outreach efforts in 2025. If you can’t personally “go” then why not send others by being part of our fundraising efforts in 2025.

 

 

 

Some of you may know Dr. Geoffrey and Nicole Moses from their stay in the Minoah House as they mobilized in 2018 for their first move and again in the summer of 2023, or from his work as a physician at Peterson Hospital in years past. The Moses’ sending church is Kerrville Bible. They serve through Frontiers USA Ministry.

 
Geoffrey and Nicole, along with their four beautiful kids, have served in Sierra Leone since 2019, sharing their skills in a country with one of the highest disease burdens in the world. Geoffrey’s father is originally from Sierra Leone, a war-torn majority Muslim nation in West Africa and again, according to National Geographic, one of the most difficult places on earth. The country has one of the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates in the world. Geoffrey’s training is in family medicine and Nicole’s in occupational therapy.

 
Their work includes providing countless medical services, hosting medical teams, educating and training, building relationships and the witness of the great commission of the reconciliation between God and mankind through Jesus Christ. They homeschool their children.

 
TBCK is honored to help in the support of the Moses family. Hopefully they’ll be able to utilize one of our mission homes again in the future, as they still consider Kerrville as their home.

 

 

TBC supports five missionary families financially. Among these are Ben and Suzie Argil (pronounced Ar-heel) who serve in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Not only are they involved in church planting, but they serve as an area resource to pastors and their wives of other Christ-centered churches in the area.

 

Several of us have had the opportunity to visit their Brilla Life Center—as their modest three-story headquarters building is called—but also to see them in action visiting new believers in the tiny ranchos scattered about the hinterlands around San Miquel.

 

Whether giving guitar lessons, teaching English, heading youth soccer competitions, counseling young women tempted to have abortions, providing leadership training, or encouraging struggling pastors, they go about their work tirelessly and cheerfully.

 

Some of those who have come to faith through their work include former drug and alcohol addicts, at least one cartel member, and scores of ordinary folks whose religious practices fall short of a biblical understanding of grace from God through faith in Jesus.

 

What strikes me as unique about their ministry is their service of encouragement to a dozen or so pastors and their wives (pastor wives are critical as their husbands often work full time jobs in addition to their church responsibilities).

 

Pastor John is planning a second annual visit, accompanied by other pastors from our Hill Country Baptist Association (some who are themselves bi-vocational), to pray and fellowship with the Mexican pastors.

 

Over the last few years, three others–a couple from Kerrville and a single woman from South Carolina—have joined the Argils to work beside them in their ever-expanding ministry.

 

You will be blessed to be a part of the prayer ministry for the Argils. The best way to keep abreast of their specific prayer requests and praises is  going to www.benandsusie.org and sign up for updates and newsletters.