Local Mission Teams

If we are all called to be the New Missionary, the question becomes “where do we begin?” While we strive to be inwardly focused on the love of Christ and obedient to His commandments, we also provoke one another to be outwardly focused to the work of “going” and “teaching” (Matthew 28:18-19). Local Mission Teams were born from contemplation of 1 Corinthians 3: how are we building upon the foundation of Christ?

Local Mission Teams are a practical way for you and your family to serve the Kansas City community. These teams help add new laborers to organizations where KCBT members have faithfully served for many years. As you read about these organizations, prayerfully consider where God can best use your gifts and abilities to minister to the needs of our community. Click the sign-up now link to join a team or request more information.

City Union Mission

Focus: Ministering to people suffering from heartbrokenness, homelessness, helplessness and hopelessness. Guiding them toward spiritual, emotional and physical wellness.
Contact: Dale Moline

City Union Mission is an evangelical Christian ministry committed to sharing the Gospel and meeting the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of men, women, children who are poor or homeless.

For our Live Out Loud Project, we will construct a “Walkway to Wellness” – a 180 foot brick walkway between the Administrative Building and the Christian Life Center. We need men and women to prepare a foundation and install paver bricks;  we need people to help serve 120 men three  separate meals. In case of bad weather, the project will be delayed into late March and early April.

Community LINC

Focus: Provides transitional housing and life skills training for homeless families
Opportunities to Serve: Classes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:45 – 7:45pm
Contact: Joel Paul and Robert Ontman

Community LINC provides transitional housing for homeless families in the Kansas City area.  They do this through a Supportive Housing Program, which includes coaching, budgeting, life skills training, counseling, healthy lifestyles and children’s programs. The mission of Community LINC is to develop self-sufficient families and communities.

Jewish Vocational Service

Focus: Immigrants, refugees, and the disabled
Contact: TK Fu

Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) was established in 1949, dedicated to assisting a global, war weary Jewish community build new lives in America. JVS staff and volunteers focused on employment opportunities as a structural support to help its clients carry on life’s tasks. JVS also developed services to meet the vocational rehabilitation needs of returning WWII veterans, a significant number of whom were disabled.

Street Evangelism

Focus: Sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with those who have never heard, establishing relationships with those we have never met, and connecting all peoples in our community to KCBT.
Key Verse: Romans 10:17 – So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Contact: Donivan Best

Trailwoods PreK-8

Focus: Kansas City, Missouri School District
Contact: Luis Arres

Trailwoods PreK-8 is a Kansas City Missouri School District institution that serves a diverse population of five hundred students. It is located at 6201 East 17th Street,  Kansas City, Missouri, 64126.

Urban Scholastic Center

Focus: Urban/inner city students and their families
Contacts: Helston Singleton and Krista Oestrich

The Urban Scholastic Center is a Christian ministry located in the heart of urban Kansas City, Kansas, that is dedicated to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and making disciples who will become socially responsible Christian leaders. We accomplish this goal through active involvement in the schools, the community and by offering Christ-centered educational, social and health-related programs within The USC facility.

Veronica’s Voice

Focus: Victims of commercial sexual exploitation (prostitution)
Live Out Loud Project: Our project will take place after The Summit. Veronica’s Voice is in the process of securing a permanent property to house the women they assist. Once the property is secured, there will be a need for cleanup and assisting those moving into the residence.
Contact: Amanda Jolley

We are survivors combating commercial sexual exploitation by using our experiences to develop our healing programs. Veronica’s Voice (VV) has helped pioneer the movement of survivor-designed, implemented and driven services. VV is dedicated to the voiceless and missing and is built by sheer will.  That “will” is what kept us alive in the most desperate and life-threatening situations and is now present in our daily lives, fighting for our sisters and brothers.