The Unified Missions Offering is a special offering held each year over and beyond the mission's budget to fund other mission endeavors. This year's projects include:
Kenyan Leaders' Exchange, Youth Mission Trip to Hungary, Special Offerings, and Youth at Risk Center.
Click here to learn about each program.
Download a newsletter with complete UMO information.
Our church membership is involved in these projects throughout the year:
Birmingham
Baptist Association Projects
Seasonal projects to assist the homeless and others in need in the Birmingham area.
Caring Fund
Financial assistance to individuals who experience temporary financial set-backs.
Construction Mission Team
This group
takes an annual trip to assist in the construction of churches. Past projects
include building churches in Missouri, Connecticut, and Louisiana.
Firehouse Shelter
The Fourth-Sixth Grade RAs provide and serve a meal for homeless men at the Birmingham
Firehouse Shelter on the second Wednesday night of each month.
Grief
Support
Through our affiliation with the Amelia Center, Birmingham Grief
Seminar and New Beginnings, our church provides support for individuals and families
who have lost loved ones or significant relationships.
International Friends
An effort to introduce people from other countries, who are living here temporarily, to a Christian influence by helping them learn English in order to be able to live and function in America. We also provide Bible study for those who will attend. We have teachers, child care workers, and women who bring refreshments each week to support this ministry. It meets each week from 9:30 until 10:30 on Tuesday morning, followed by a fellowship time and a Bible study.
Meals
on Wheels
Team that go out to deliver hot meals to Birmingham residents. Medical Apartment Ministry
The Birmingham Baptist Association provides apartments in the Town House apartments near UAB for families who have critically ill members at UAB hospitals. The Shalom Sunday School class sponsors an apartment. Volunteers go weekly to take homemade goodies, flowers and cards, and to help with cleaning.
Messianic Banquet
A holiday banquet including gifts of food and clothing for residents of Bethany Home, Bread & Roses, Hannah Home, and Angel Tree Families.
Mission Trips
Projects include local, US, trips abroad.
M-Power
MPower Ministries is a faith-based, urban ministry in Birmingham. Its ministries include a medical clinic, adult literacy programs, and after-school tutoring.
We Care Shut-in Ministry
Monthly
visitation to senior adults, member and non-members, who are not able to attend church.
Funding
These Missions Endeavors are funded by:
- VHBC General Operating Budget
- VHBC Unified
Missions Offering
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EDUCATION
These groups meet during the school year:
Mission
Friends
for Age 3 - Kindergarten
Girls-in-Action
for Girls Grades 1-6
Royal
Ambassadors
for Boys Grades 1-6
Acteens
for Girls Grades 7-12 |