Missions
Make an Impact |
Missions is being intentional with how you live, what you communicate and Who you obey while letting others watch. It involves going, praying, and sending so everyone has a part to play in the story God is telling and all are invited to use their lives to demonstrate God’s plan for the world. On mission we are reminded of the bigness of what God is doing and that we are never alone.
Our missions include local, national and international opportunities to share the Gospel.
Local |
When Jesus commanded His disciples to share the Gospel, He instructed that it be local, regional, and to the world (Acts 1:8). Grand Parkway does not want to trip over its neighbors while getting to the world so our first missional focus is local.
ESL - English as a Second Language
On Tuesdays 6pm - 8:30 pm, August - May, we teach basic English through Level 6 to a delightful and courageous group of adults.Classes begin on August 20th in the Warehouse at GPBC and registration is ongoing through the year. Volunteers are needed in the following roles: Teacher, Assistant Teacher, Conversation Partner, Hospitality.
On Sundays at 10:30am, ESL instructors and students read and study the Bible together to strengthen English and friendship.
Fellowship Church Network
Jim Morisey is a missionary through Fellowship Church Network connecting with unreached people groups right here in the Richmond/Sugar Land area as well as overseas in Pakistan. He utilizes prayer, trainings, mentoring, and various outreaches to find people who have been given a desire to know the Lord, discipling them once they come to faith or helping interested people to move in the direction of faith in Jesus.
Fort Bend ISD Schools
We are engaged in blessing the schools right across the street from our church. These schools are filled with students whose families live in the neighborhoods surrounding our church. Volunteers are needed for various events at the schools throughout the year. We also like to show up as school volunteers doing office work, library help, and tutoring among other things.
Global Gates - Afghan Refugees
Thousands of Afghan refugees live in Houston seeking a safe place, employment opportunities, and freedom. God has brought the nation of Afghanistan here. We welcome Afghan refugee women into their community by establishing a sense of belonging and by partnering with them to restore honor, affirm dignity, and transform their lives and those of their family. We also seek to meet practical needs. We help through hospitality, assisting with acclimation to our area, English tutoring, and delivering practical items like groceries and clothing.
Here To There Movement
Here to There Movement coaches, leads, launches and networks teams of missionaries working with unreached people groups in local U.S. cities ("Here") in order to help facilitate the multiplication of disciples among every unreached people group worldwide ("There").
Nery’s Promise
Nery’s Promise introduces our communities' children and families to God. Through their faith-based programs they train and equip children and young adults who live in generational poverty to succeed, placing God at the center of their lives.
The first Tuesday of every month, we volunteer to serve at their weekly Bible study. 50-70 children show up to read the Bible and learn about the love of Jesus. You do not need special skills for this opportunity. Show up, love on children and help lead a simple Bible study. If you have teens or older elementary kids, this is a great opportunity for your family to serve together and to model the call to take the Gospel to our neighbors.
The Sanctuary
The Sanctuary is a unique foster care agency that provides trauma-informed care and comprehensive support to foster families. Their mission is to create healing homes for children from difficult backgrounds, helping to break the cycle of instability that so often affects foster children.
The Sanctuary offers a range of services to support both children and their foster families, including therapy, 24/7 crisis intervention, respite care, and community-based resources. Their commitment is to ensure children have the opportunity for permanent, safe, and loving homes, whether through reunification with family or adoption.
ESL - English as a Second Language
On Tuesdays 6pm - 8pm, September - May, we teach basic English thru level 5. There are ESL Assistants who help navigae the students through a formal teaching cirriculum and informal conversational learning.
On Sundays at 10:30am, ESL instructors and students read and study the Bible together.
FB ISD Schools
We are engaged with Mission West Elementary, Oyster Creek Elementary, and Austin High School.
Global Gates - Afghan Refugees
We want to see Afghans’ hearts and lives changed by the Gospel and them thriving here in America. If you have a heart to serve, contact us.
Nery’s Promise
Nery’s Promise introduces our communities' children and families to God. Through their faith-based programs they train and equip children and young adults to succeed, placing God at the center of their lives.
Help by:
- Cook meals
- Read to kids
- Spend time with the children
To see how you can help, click here
Pregnancy Resource Medical Center of Rosenberg
Pregnancy Resource Medical Center (PMRC) of Rosenberg is dedicated to all women who are faced with an unplanned pregnancy.
The goal of PRMC is to offer information, emotional support, spiritual encouragement and practical help that will empower a woman to choose life for their child and sexual integrity for themselves.
- Become a prayer partner that will pray for these women, the decisions they are making and for their baby
- Help with handyman projects, volunteer at the clinic, become a client advocate or teach a class
- Collect donations and help with the yearly “Baby Bottle Boomerang” fundraiser
NATIONAL |
When Jesus commanded His disciples to share the Gospel, He instructed that it be local, regional, and to the world (Acts 1:8). Grand Parkway wants the nation to know Jesus so we partner with churches that are engaging their communities.
NETS For the Life of The Church - VT
NETS is the New England Training and Sending Center for Church Planting and Revitalization. NETS specializes in training and sending leaders to plant and revitalize the church in gospel-parched regions of our nation and world.
Park Slope Community Church - Brooklyn, NY
Park Slope Community Church is focused on reaching the community of Brooklyn, New York. We partner with the church-plant team whose calling is to live missionally in the city and spread the Gospel to this community.
Park Slope seeks to proclaim the Gospel and show mercy to those in need—making disciples and loving their neighbors.
Global |
When Jesus commanded His disciples to share the Gospel, He instructed that it be local, regional, and to the world (Acts 1:8). Global can be an overwhelming target but Grand Parkway partners with those focused on their own part of the world.
Costa Rica
For over a decade, we supported a work to reach the Guyami people of Costa Rica. We continue to support that work through annual indigenous pastor equipping and construction trips.
Cuba
Our hope is to assist indigenous Churches in Cuba to plant Great Commission Churches in underserved regions by providing training, support, encouragement, and accountability.
France
We partner with Stephen and Sabrina Marshall and their ministry of church planting in Lyon, France. The Marshalls’ ministry has already planted 4 churches in the Lyon area and has a goal of seeing 100 new churches in Lyon (1 church per 10,000 people).
They desire to see these church plants come out of their current churches and to see the people of Lyon become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
Romania
Since 2011, Grand Parkway has partnered with Ovidiu and Adina Petric, who run a local outreach center to bring the Good News of Jesus to the villages in Romania.
We work beside Romanian believers; helping to grow the Church in the face of false gospels, the lingering impacts of Communism, and poverty.
Sri Lanka
We have partnered with Derek Schuessler and his work with For All Mankind Movement (FAMM), an organization that reaches the unreached and equips the locals to be missionaries to their own people.
Derek, a Grand Parkway member, provides theological training to implement a Biblical education program among FAMM’s network of church plants in the Middle East and South Asia.
Costa Rica
For over a decade, we supported a work to reach the Guyami people of Costa Rica. We continue to support that work through annual indigenous pastor equipping and construction trips.
France
We partner with Stephen and Sabrina Marshall and their ministry of church planting in Lyon, France. The Marshalls’ ministry has already planted 4 churches in the Lyon area and has a goal of seeing 100 new churches in Lyon (1 church per 10,000 people).
They desire to see these church plants come out of their current churches and to see the people of Lyon become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
Romania
Since 2011, Grand Parkway has partnered with Ovidiu and Adina Petric, who run a local outreach center to bring the Good News of Jesus to the villages in Romania.
We work beside Romanian believers; helping to grow the Church in the face of false gospels, the lingering impacts of Communism, and poverty.
South Asia
We have partnered with Derek Schuessler and his work with For All Mankind Movement (FAMM), an organization that reaches the unreached and equips the locals to be missionaries to their own people.
Derek, a Grand Parkway member, provides theological training to implement a Biblical education program among FAMM’s network of church plants in the Middle East and South Asia.
LOOKING FOR MORE?
For more information, please contact our Outreach Directors, Kurt and Jenn Freeman.
