Missions

The support and encouragement of missions is fundamental to the purpose of Calvary Baptist Church and our role in spreading the Gospel by carrying out the Great Commission. The church uses 21% of all received tithes and offerings for the direct support of missions or mission sponsoring organizations.

Calvary Baptist Church provides prayer and financial support to the following organizations:

Baptist Children's Home and Family Services - The Baptist Children's Home and Family Services is a private child caring agency operated in affiliation with the Illinois Baptist State Association. They exist to care for children who have been abused, abandoned, neglected or are otherwise in crisis. BCHFS cares for approximately 560 children and families in Illinois and its contiguous states each year.

Services are provided at four locations throughout Illinois: a residential campus located in Carmi, Illinois that provides housing, counseling and schooling for children; a facility in Mount Vernon, Illinois that provides maternity, adoption, and foster care programs; and locations in Chicago and Fairview Heights, Illinois that provide Christian counseling and related family services.

For further information contact Doug Devore, Executive Director at (618) 382-4164 or bchfs@bchfs.com.

Fox Valley Baptist Association - The Fox Valley Baptist Association is an association of 33 Baptist churches and missions located in or near the Fox Valley of northeastern Illinois. The association provides mutual support and fellowship to member churches through a variety of programs and conferences. The FVBA is also instrumental in providing leadership and financial support for church plants and mission status churches throughout the Fox Valley area.

For further information contact the FVBA office at (847) 697-4111.

Illinois Baptist State Association Cooperative Program - Since its inception in 1925, the Illinois Baptist State Association Cooperative Program has provided financial support to local, national, and international ministries and missions. This program is a cooperative program between state associations and the Southern Baptist Convention. A designated amount of offerings from local churches are forwarded to the IBSA, which votes yearly on the percentage of these gifts to keep at the state level and the percentage to forward to the SBC. In 2001, for example, that percentage was 58.25% in Illinois and 41.75% to the SBC. At the state level gifts are used to support the various programs of the state association. Some of the gifts return to local associations and churches through programs sponsored by the state association. At the Southern Baptist Convention level, gifts are used to fund over 5000 missionaries in 154 countries as well as six seminaries, an ethics and religious liberty commission and ongoing operations of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Indo-China Mission-Bethel - Founded by the Bethel Baptist Church of Saint Charles, Illinois, the Indo-China mission serves the people of Cambodia. Missionaries Glenn and Saveun Colley operate the mission from a base church outside of Phnom Penh. The base church has in turn planted 7 other churches. The work of the mission includes a Bible school which trains ministerial candidates and workers for village churches, a medical ministry which provides transportation and financial assistance to those needing hospital care or midwife services, treatment and dispensing of medications for common illnesses and a wound care center.

Glenn and Saveun give God the credit for the success of their work and welcome every opportunity to show the love of Jesus Christ in action through the mission.

For further information contact Bethel Baptist Church at (630) 584-1862.

Mexican Indian Training Center - Founded in 1956 the Mexican Indian Training Center is a non-denominational evangelical Christian ministry, headquartered in Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico, a city of approximately 200,000 people located one hour due west of Vera Cruz on the eastern coast of Mexico. It serves the spiritual, educational, and medical needs of indigenous Mexican people. With the support of individuals and American churches as well as the guidance of both a Mexican and American Board of Directors, the work of all the ministries is offered for the praise of God and the spreading of the good news of the Gospel.

M.I.T.C. consists of three interrelated ministries; a post secondary Bible school located in Cordoba, a missionary support network which oversees the work of former students and mission churches in the mountainous regions of southern Mexico, and general medical and surgical missions.

For further information contact Bill Magee, Executive Director, (318) 686-9380.

Riverwoods Christian Center - Sharing the Gospel with the economically disadvantaged people of the Fox River Valley is the stated mission of Riverwoods Christian Center. Headquartered on a campus adjacent to the Fox River in rural St. Charles, Illinois, Riverwoods accomplishes its mission through community advocacy programs, discipleship clubs, and resident summer camp. Riverwoods serves communities from Carpentersville to Aurora.

For further information contact Riverwoods Christian Center (630) 584-2222 or Info@RiverwoodsChristianCenter.org.

Wycliffe Bible Translators - Although still in its infancy, Calvary Baptist Church is blessed to provide prayer and financial support to the mission ministry of Calvary members Art and Denice Aviles. Feeling the call of God to the mission field, Art and Denice and their children, Micah and Josiah, will soon be traveling to the country of Chad, Africa. Once in Chad they will be settled with an indigenous tribe and will face many challenges, including learning the language of the tribe, formulating a lexicon of the tribal language, and eventually writing a Bible translation in the tribal language. All this while teaching the people about the one true Living God and ministering to their needs.

Please keep the Aviles family in your prayers.

For further information contact Wycliffe Bible Translators at (800) 992-5433 or info_usa@wycliffe.org.