Buckner Shoe Drive

We will be collecting new shoes for Buckner International through the end of February.  Please take some time to check out who Buckner International is and what they do.  Their website is http://www.buckner.org/.  We believe in the ministry they do and look forward to supporting them through this shoe drive.

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

StreetReach

Street Reach is an outreach ministry with the simple goal of entering into genuine, loving relationships with the community surrounding UBC. With a heart for impacting those around us with the love of Christ, it is our desire to passionately serve families in the immediate area. To accomplish this, we feel it is necessary to meet those individuals where they are: their own homes.

Each Street Reach team is assigned a street in the surrounding neighborhood. Twice a month, the group goes around to each house on the block and slowly builds relationships with the residents through casual conversations, simple acts of service, and prayer. Over time, those relationships flourish, as each group becomes a part of the community’s fabric of life.

Through these consistent encounters, the love of God and the good news of Christ are shared through incarnational ministry: we become the love of Jesus to the community. This attitude is expressed by Paul to the church in Thessalonica, to which he writes, “So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God, but also our very lives, because you have become very dear to us.” – 1 Thessalonians 2:8

• For more information on StreetReach, contact Chris Bruce at chris@ubcabilene.com or Zeke Dorr at zeke@ubcabilene.com

Love and Care

UBC has many connections with a local ministry called Love & Care Ministries. Each month, thousands of people are fed through Love and Care Ministries. Four days a week meals are taken to the streets by either the staff or a team of volunteers.

Both staff and volunteers prepare family food boxes, homeless food kits and sack lunches for the hungry throughout the week.

“For I was hungry and You gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and You gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and You took Me in.” Matthew 25:35

• If you are interested in volunteering with this ministry contact Terry Davis at terry@ubcabilene.com.