FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

LOCAL OUTREACH SUPPORT

We support local outreach programs for our community 

• The Parish Cupboard in West Springfield

• The Springfield Rescue Mission

• Diaconate Fund to provide emergency assistance to those in our community that need it

MISSIONARIES & PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD

• ​Operation Christmas Child: a project of Samaritan's Purse. Through the power of this simple shoebox of gifts we help touch the needy children of the world, who need to know that they are precious to God.

• Joanna Hodges and the Good Samaritan Hospital- Limbe, Haiti

• We support the American Baptist Churches, USA One Great Hour of Sharing program that provides mission outreach to the poor and needy all over the world.

Our interest and support of missions and outreach to others goes back to the early history of our church when one of our own members, Eva Beatrice Knight (1902-1936) chose to become a missionary. She attended the Dudley Bible School (now known as the Providence Bible Institute) to receive training. On November 2, 1929, she sailed from Vancouver to Shanghai, China. Miss Knight spent much of her time in the Province of Anhwei and was then called to Shanghai to do clerical work. She contracted pneumonia while there and passed away.