Missions & Outreach

Missions + Outreach

We love coming together for worship and fellowship, but the love of Christ also compels us outward, to work together for the common good of our community. Together with other Morehead churches, local non-profits, and national organizations we seek to meet tangible needs and work for systemic solutions. To read about some of our regular partners and projects in this work, keep scrolling!

What is CBF?

On this page and in lots of other places, you’ll notice us talking about CBF or CBF Kentucky. CBF is an acronym that signifies our larger Baptist family, The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. In good Baptist fashion, we believe we can do more together than we can by ourselves, and so we partner with CBF on a state and national level to collaborate on everything from global missions projects to continuing education for ordained clergy.

Some Distinctive Projects:

  • Church members are deeply invested in the life of Morehead and Rowan County, and regularly encourage the church to join them in both their professional and volunteer work.

    In months with five Sundays (so, once a quarter) we all work together to collect tangible donations for partner organizations in Rowan County.

    Some of our regular partners include: Family Resource and Youth Service Centers, DOVES Women’s Shelter, Eagle Essentials, Blue Sky Recovery Facility, Frontier Housing, Christian Social Services, The People’s Clinic, and local meetings of both NA and AA.

  • The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) currently supports the work of field personnel and missionaries in 20 different countries around the world, some of them right here in Kentucky. You can read more about CBF’s philosophy of mission and the good work being done here.

    We regularly support and benefit from this global missions emphasis in a variety of ways. We work closely with Scarlette Jasper (based in McCreary County, Kentucky) on a number of projects (see below). We help raise funds annually to support the work of our field personnel through the Offering for Global Missions. And we love to host visiting field personnel whenever they pass through Eastern Kentucky!

  • Every June CBF Kentucky builds an entire brand-new house for a family in Southeast Kentucky through a project known as Extreme Build. We support Extreme Build by raising funds throughout the year and sending construction volunteers to work on the house each summer. (HYPERLINK)

  • Our church is located right around the corner from Morehead State University and we benefit greatly from the presence of students in our midst.

    Our choir is regularly bolstered by talented student vocalists from MSU.

    Each summer we extend hospitality to visiting high school students taking part in the Governor’s Scholars Program by inviting them to join us for worship and lunch.

    In August we sponsor a booth at MSU’s Eagle Fest to help new and returning students know that they are all welcome both in Morehead and at FBC.

    Also in August we collect school supplies for the Rowan County Family Resource and Youth Service Centers so that children in our community have the physical resources they need to succeed in school.

  • Working closely with Scarlette Jasper, a CBF field personnel focused on impacting persistent rural poverty in Southeastern Kentucky, we collect and donate resources to aid her Christmas shoebox gift program.

  • Christian Social Services ministers to our neighbors in many ways, but one of their most vital ongoing projects is their food pantry.

    In November we join churches and organizations in Rowan County to gather food for Thanksgiving baskets distributed by the food pantry.

    In December, we encourage our congregation to make monetary gifts to help fill that pantry with Christmas dinner goodies.

    And every time we share communion we take up a special benevolence offering to help support all the good work CSS does in Morehead.

  • Several times a year we partner with Frontier Housing to host groups of volunteers participating in the AmeriCorps NCCC program to build affordable housing here in Morehead. The volunteers live on the third floor of the church building and add some delightful energy during their stay.

What guides our outreach?

“One of the most persistent mistakes of Christian men has been to postpone social regeneration to a future era to be inaugurated by the return of Christ…It is true that any regeneration of society can come only through the act of God and the presence of Christ; but God is now acting and Christ is now here. To assert that means not less faith, but more. It is true that any effort at social regeneration is dogged by perpetual relapses and doomed forever to fall short of its aim. But the same is true of our personal efforts to live a Christ-like life…Whatever argument would demand the postponement of social regeneration to a future era will equally demand the postponement of personal holiness to a future life.”

— Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis