REACH OUT
ACROSS THE STREET & ACROSS THE GLOBE
Connecting to God’s mission…
Connecting to God’s Mission, both near and far, is a primary desire at Live Oak. We will pursue, pray for and support what is God is doing, through His people, across the street and across the globe!
YOUR MISSION FIELD?
First and Foremost, you can connect with God’s mission outside these walls by realizing YOU are a missionary. WE believe you are, and hope to equip you to be a light at home, work, school, on your sports teams…really anywhere you find yourself. Where YOU find yourself on Monday morning is YOUR mission field!
As you develop relationships with people in your life it is important to be ready to share your faith. 1 Peter 3:15 tells us, “But in your hearts, revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.”
Here are some helps for you as you live in your Monday morning mission field!
LOCAL OUTREACH
Live Oak supports some local ministries, on an on-going basis, both financially and by serving in-person when possible:
We also wade into needs that we discover along the way, such as providing coats or backpacks to impoverished children at under-resourced schools, doing a diaper drive for an emergency intake center for foster care, and helping a church get a new roof.
There are opportunities for you to engage with local ministries and you can always pray for them. And know that when you give financially, you are supporting them too.
Check out these serving opportunities…
Kingdom Come
WEBSITE: https://www.kingdomcomelubbock.org/volunteer
At Kingdom Come, we’re all about helping kids grow in their relationship with Jesus. We are a faith-based organization focused on transforming families through the power of the Gospel. Our mission extends beyond just church services – it partners with local schools, supports families in crisis, and empowers kids to live boldly in their identity in Christ.
Serving Opportunities
- Saturday (last Sat. of every month): 9a-11a; all ages
Ways to Serve: Connect, explore all the exciting things happening at Kingdom Come, and take part in various projects. Each month, we’ll have unique activities, like uplifting our neighborhoods, sprucing up the Champion Church for Kids facilities, and putting together thoughtful gifts for our amazing teachers.
- Wednesdays: 10am-12pm; all ages
Ways to Serve: Preparing mailings, organizing supplies, packing snack bags, putting together gifts for our amazing teachers
- Thursdays: 6p-7:30p
Champions Church for Kids is a church just for kids. Every Thursday night from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., kids can experience God’s presence, dive into deep biblical truths, and have fun with other kids. Parents can drop their kids off or stay with them during the service.
Ways to Serve: Concessions Team, Safety Team, Welcome Team, Hospitality Team, Prayer Team, Small Group Coordinators, AV Team
Lubbock Impact
WEBSITE: https://lubbock-impact.vomo.org/org/lubbock-impact
Every week, Lubbock Impact serves as a bridge connecting people like you with opportunities to make a difference. Through various programs and resources, we strive to bring hope, empowerment, and healing to Lubbock.
If you are looking for an opportunity for yourself, family, business, organization, or church to join us on our mission and share the hope of Christ, please check out our volunteer hub below.
If you are looking to bring a group with over 10 individuals to serve, please contact Raelynn Beaty, Lubbock Impact Communications and Volunteer Manager, at [email protected]
Serving Opportunities
- Mondays:
Dining Hall Setup; 5:30p-7p; all ages
Decorate the tables in our dining hall in preparation for the Community Meal on Wednesday.
Meal Prep; 5:30p-7p; all ages
Help us prepare for the community meal. Each week, Lubbock Impact serves between 130 – 200 during our Community Meal. We need your help to prep the food to serve!
Lubbock Impact Pantry; 4:45p-6:30p; ages 13+
Volunteers will assist participants with shopping in the food and hygiene pantry. Please arrive 10 minutes early to receive an overview of the process.
- Tuesdays:
Senior Lunch; 11:45a-1:30p; ages 13+
help cook and serve food for our monthly Senior Lunch
Community Meal; 4:30p-7:15p or 5:30p-7p; ages 13+
Help us cook, plate and serve the community meal. Please arrive no later than 5:30pm, to ensure that you are able to be assigned a spot. We will not be able to assign a spot after 5:45pm.
Children’s Ministry; 6:15p-8:15p; ages 18+
Pour into our children the love of Jesus on Tuesday nights
- Wednesdays:
Clothing Closet; 9a-12p or 1p-3p; ages 13+
Volunteers will work in our Clothing Closets when we are open to the public, assisting our shoppers and sorting, hanging, and tagging clothing donations. Please note: our doors stay LOCKED when we are not open for our regular programming. When you arrive for a shift, please come to the double glass doors. If they doors are not open or are locked, please ring the doorbell, someone will open the door for you.
- Thursdays:
Lubbock Impact Pantry; 4:45p-6:30p; ages 13+
Volunteers will assist participants with shopping in the food and hygiene pantry. Please arrive 10 minutes early to receive an overview of the process.
Clothing Closet; 9a-12p; ages 13+
Volunteers will work in our Clothing Closets when we are open to the public, assisting our shoppers and sorting, hanging, and tagging clothing donations. Please note: our doors stay LOCKED when we are not open for our regular programming. When you arrive for a shift, please come to the double glass doors. If they doors are not open or are locked, please ring the doorbell, someone will open the door for you.
Dental Clinic Pre-Dental Volunteers; 4:30p-9p; ages 18+
Pre-Dental: we ask that volunteers choose only 3 times to serve per semester to give equal opportunity to learn. You will need to arrive by 4:30 pm for training, registration of patients, and clinic. Volunteer dentists arrive at 5:45 pm, and patients are seen from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Each week 6-8 patients are seen during clinic. Each volunteer will be assigned a position upon arrival, either in the preventative class, patient intake/x-ray, or dentist assistant/sterilization. Please dress in scrubs, close-toed shoes, and with your hair pulled back. If you have any questions, please get in touch with [email protected]. Should you need to cancel, please let us know at least 48 hours in advance so we can find another volunteer to replace you.
- Saturdays:
Serve Day at Lubbock Impact; 9a-11:30a; ages 13+
Help us tackle bigger projects that we can’t get done in a regular work week. Projects vary so come ready for anything from sorting clothes to stocking the food pantry and more!
Children's Home of Lubbock
WEBSITE: https://childshome.org/join-us-volunteer/
On any given day, an average of 90 boys and girls are in care at Children’s Home whether through our cottages, foster homes, or independent living housing. These children come to the Home through the Department of Family Protective Services because of suspected neglect or abuse. While the court and biological families work through each case, the children are cared for by our staff and begin Sanctuary, a trauma-informed treatment program.
Children’s Home of Lubbock is a faith-based agency, and we believe God has been with us every step of the way as we have faced personal and legislative trials. We are blessed with a modern, debt-free group care campus, and the Home continues to expand as the needs of our children and community change. Every child we serve leaves knowing that Jesus loves them and will never forsake them.
Serving Opportunities
- Plan a party or special play day for the children.
- Help with holiday celebrations on campus.
- Assist with homework help and tutoring after school.
- Help with workday projects including yard-work, work on the farm, cleaning or painting.
- Sponsor a collection drive or coordinate fundraising at your church.
- Assist with fundraisers and special events on campus.
- Assist with the summer program, particularly for younger children.
- Talk to us about your own ideas of ways to serve our children.
- Provide desserts for all of the cottages.
- Sponsor a cottage for birthday celebrations for a year.
- Sponsor kids for camps or other youth activities.
- Sponsor a cottage for Christmas.
- Sponsor a trip to your community or host a cottage vacation.
- Support our efforts to find Christian families to foster or adopt children in need.
Meals on Wheels
WEBSITE: https://lubbockmealsonwheels.org/volunteer/
Lubbock Meals on Wheels is a private, non-profit organization committed to helping people remain home, well fed, and independent as long as possible. We receive no government funding and are not a United Way funded agency.
Serving Opportunities
- Drivers; Monday – Friday 10:45a-12p
Volunteer drivers, both regular and substitute, are needed each weekday to deliver meals. You do not need to commit to a set schedule to volunteer for LMOW. Some drivers prefer to take the same route on the same day each week whereas others prefer to substitute when needed. For many of our clients, the LMOW volunteer may be the only person they see during the day. That daily human contact is just as important as the nutritious meal they are receiving. Each route takes approximately 1 hour to deliver. Most routes have 10 – 16 clients. A background check and one hour orientation is required for all delivery volunteers.
- Various administrative and kitchen duties, packing breakfast, washing coolers, packaging weekend meals, building and vehicle maintenance, and assisting with the Pet Program.
Food2Kids
WEBSITE: https://spfood2kids.org/volunteer/
At Food2Kids our mission is to put an end to weekend hunger in the South Plains. With the help of many volunteers and partnering organizations, we send nutritious shelf-stable bags of food home with children each Friday. So children are able to come to school ready to learn on Monday morning.
Serving Opportunities
- Wednesdays:
Facility Prep
- Thursdays; 5:45p-6:45p
Pack Weekend Snack Bags
National & Global Outreach
BRIAN AND AMY JONES, CHURCH PLANTERS, CALIFORNIA
San Diego county has over 3.3 million people, and over 90% of them are lost. That means there are almost 3 million people who need Jesus. That seems overwhelming, but Brian and Amy Jones felt led to be used by God to change that statistic one heart at a time. They moved to San Marcos, CA to plant a church in September 2020. Brian and Amy, and their team need big prayers:
-Please pray for christians in San Diego to engage their neighbors, friends, and family in order to build relationships and share Jesus both with their lives as well as in conversation.
-Be praying for the city of San Marcos
-Pray for the transitions of relocating for Brian and Amy and their children, and two other team members
-Pray for a core team of 15 who currently live in San Marcos and will be joining this endeavor with the Jones
-Please pray that God grows the faith of our team and that from the very beginning we would be praying big expectant prayers. Pray that the Lord would put within each of us a resilience when hardship and adversity starts to happen that we would trust the Lord and have an eternal optimism as we face opposition.
GRINGS FAMILY in the Democratic republic of Congo
– Daniel and Cristine Grings arrived in Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) in August of 1983 and ministered in the village of Longa until December 1995. Due to political unrest, the Grings relocated several times as ministers within the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, their heart for ministry persevered and the Grings found a new home in Kinshasa, the capital of DRC, in 2000.
– Since 2002, Daniel has served as pastor of the local church in Nsango na Bomoi and Christine plays an active role in women’s Bible study and teaching Sunday school. The church of Nsango na Bomoi had a role in planting five other churches, which are also spreading God’s word. The Grings and their seven children pray that the Lord will give them faithful Congolese leaders in Congo and more missionaries to evangelize and disciple souls for Christ within the Democratic Republic of Congo.
– Home Church: Berean Bible Church, 8630 S 60 E, Sandy, UT 84070, 1-801-255-6035
– Mission Board:Independent Faith Mission, P.O. Box 7791, Greensboro, NC 274071-336-255-1255
Global Leadership Network
The Global Leadership Network is a community committed to learning from each other and using our influence to accomplish God’s purposes on earth. No matter where your influence is, when you commit to grow your leadership, everyone around you wins—businesses work for good, communities are transformed and churches thrive! Both global and diverse, our network includes partners in 1,500+ cities and 135+ countries. We are committed to deliver fresh, actionable and inspiring leadership content both at The Global Leadership Summit, and year-round through events and digital platforms.
Our Vision
We envision a movement of Christians and churches maximizing their full leadership potential to impact the world.
Our Mission
To inspire and equip world-class leadership that ignites transformation.
Oleg & Marina REUTKI
NEW HOPE URASIA
New Hope Eurasia, has it’s roots in 40 years of ministry in Eastern European countries, and started with the efforts of the former team of Eastern European Bible Mission, smuggling Bibles into former USSR, and supporting persecuted churches in the work of outreach. They are proud of thier heritage of being missional & transformational. Thier values are networking, integrity, care, quality work, meaningful relationship. They believe in the Gospel proclamation and in the empowerment of Churches to accomplish the Great Commission.
They are at work in Eastern Europe: Republic of Moldova, Eastern Romania, Southern Bulgaria, Western Ukraine, Western Turkey, Central Azerbaijan and Central Asia: Southern Kazakhstan, Northern Kyrgyzstan, Eastern Uzbekistan, Northern Tadjikistan.
Bo & Lauren
SE Asia
Bo and Lauren are workers sent to South Asia by a sending organization here in the States. They have a passion for the next generation, education, & partnering with the local believing body.
They are currently learning the local language, building relationships, learning culture, & helping their team in various ways. Bo teaches science at a school and Lauren helps with a craft club. They both are helping organize and lead a youth Bible study on the weekends.
Before going to South Asia, Bo and Lauren were apart of the missions team here at Live Oak & attended a community group. They are excited to share with you all what the Lord is doing across the world!
Gideons international
The Gideons International is the result of a meeting between two men who wished to band commercial travelers together for evangelism. What began in 1908 as an Association of Christian businessmen placing Bibles in hotel rooms has evolved into an expanding mission to provide Scriptures to all people in nearly every facet of life. Today, they have taken more than 2 billion Scriptures in more than 95 languages to 200 countries, territories, and possessions across the globe. They exist as an advocate for the lost, to bring them the saving knowledge of the Word through not only placing and distributing Scriptures, but also through personal witnessing and by associating together for service. As a united force for the Gospel, they remain rooted in tradition, but operate under the firm belief that anyone can be a valuable asset to this invaluable cause. They provide many opportunities to partner with them through either prayer or financial support.
Global missions resources
At Live Oak, we believe that a life that is meaningfully connected to Christ and community is a life that thrives. We want to see families and individuals connecting to and pursuing God, God’s word, God’s people, and God’s MISSION.
We can see God’s heart for his people in Revelation 7:9…
“… I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every NATION, from ALL tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb…”
We can see God’s call for his people in Matthew 28:18-19…
“And Jesus came and said to them, ‘all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go therefore and make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
In today’s day and age, there are several ways to participate in God’s global mission. Here are a few resources to get you started in learning and participating:
BOOKS/ARTICLES
1. Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper (10 copies available for free at Live Oak)
2. Is the Great Commissions for Every Individual Christian?
3. How Do I Know God’s Calling for my Life?
4. What About Those Who Have Never Heard?
5. Worth a Thousand Years of Waiting: The Staggering Rise of the Church in Iran
6. May I Help You Discern Your Calling?
PRAYER
1. “Unreached of the Day” App
This iPhone app is designed to make praying for people groups simple! Each day, a people group is feautred and prayed over. It offers many resources such as a description of the people group, prayer guidance, scripture focus, and map, as well as tangible ways to get involved if one so chooses. Here is a preview:
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