Missions

God provides our resources – enough to meet our daily needs and share with others. Scripture serves as the foundation to Mount Auburn Church’s mission to “Make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly.”

The Missions Team affirms Jesus’ call upon the church to serve as Jesus’ ambassadors, locally and globally bearing witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the purpose of making disciples of all nations. (Matt. 28:19-20) We define missions as support for ministries and missionaries that align with Jesus’ call to serve as His witnesses in Jerusalem (Johnson County) and in all Judea (statewide) and Samaria (nationally) and to the ends of the earth (internationally), particularly those that require funding and oversight.

Web Banner 2024 Missions Week
SUNDAY, APRIL 21

BEFORE & AFTER SERVICES – Mission Booths in Trinity Hall

Explore a variety of missions that Mount Auburn supports!


9am – Duane Brown of OMS speaking during Howard Life Group

At 9am, join the Howard Life Group in the Community Room (enter Door 6 or through Trinity Hall) as Duane Brown,

VP of Church Partners at One Mission Society, speaks to his role and partnerships developed with Mount Auburn.


10am – Duane Brown of OMS speaking during Eveland Life Group

At 10am, join the Eveland Life Group in the Community Room (enter Door 6 or through Trinity Hall) as Duane

Brown, VP of Church Partners at One Mission Society, speaks to his role and partnerships developed with Mount

Auburn.


12pm to 1pm – 2024 Christmas Outreach Planning

Join us for a light lunch and discussion of upcoming outreach opportunities this Christmas Season.

We’d love to hear your input!


5pm to 7pm – Evening for Youth Service Project

We have space for 4 adults to join our Youth at the Waters’ household for a service project.

If you’d like to come along, please email Jeremy at: jeremyv@mountauburn.church

11am – Tour & Lunch at the Lord’s Locker

We have 8 spaces available for this learning opportunity! The Lord’s Locker will be giving us an operations tour

accompanied by a lunch at their facility. Reserve your spot by signing up in person in Trinity Hall (beginning April 7)

or by emailing Jeremy at: jeremyv@mountauburn.church

 

Learn more about the Lord’s Locker! Visit their Facebook page by clicking HERE.

9 am to 3 pm – Day Seminar at One Mission Society Headquarters

We only have 5 spaces available for this learning opportunity! Here you’ll learn about OMS roles and

responsibilities, how to enhance the church’s sending culture and leave fully equipped with action plans.

If you have a heart for service in the name of the Lord, this opportunity is for YOU!

To sign up, please visit us in Trinity Hall and sign your name on the sign-up sheet. Breakfast and lunch provided!

To learn more about this opportunity, click the HERE.

To register outside of the Mount Auburn group, click the HERE.

OMS Headquarters is located at 941 Fry Rd., Greenwood, IN 46142

To learn more about OMS, visit their website by clicking HERE.


10am to 12pm & 1pm to 3pm – Walk Around and Service Opportunity at the Boaz Headquarters

Did you get an A in penmanship? Join us at Boaz Headquarters (located at 622 N Madison Ave #3, Greenwood, IN 46142)

where we will get to see the Boaz operations and participate in a service opportunity of addressing and sealing

envelopes! We only have spots for 10 adults each shift! To sign up, head to Trinity Hall and write your name on

the board (beginning April 7)!

To learn more about Boaz, visit their website by clicking HERE.

5:45pm to 7:45pm – Missions Meal Mingle

Join us for an evening of fellowship consisting of three short presentations during our meal followed by a general

meet-and-greet in Trinity Hall. Let us know you’re coming by visiting Trinity Hall (beginning April 7) and sign your

name on the board. This is a great opportunity to explore the tip of the iceberg of Missions at Mount Auburn!

10am to 12pm – Walk Around and Service Opportunity at the Boaz Headquarters

Did you get an A in penmanship? Join us at Boaz Headquarters (located at 622 N Madison Ave #3, Greenwood, IN 46142)

where we will get to see the Boaz operations and participate in a service opportunity of addressing and sealing

envelopes! We only have spots for 10 adults! To sign up, head to Trinity Hall and write your name on

the board (beginning April 7)!

To learn more about Boaz, visit their website by clicking HERE.


11am – Tour at Interchurch Food Pantry

No limit for attendance here! Join us as we explore the underpinnings of the Interchurch Food Pantry of Johnson

County. Let us know you’ll be coming by visiting Trinity Hall (beginning April 7) and signing your name on the

sign-up board.


11am to 3pm – Service Project at the Interchurch Food Pantry

Let’s come together and assist one of the long-standing community pantries and partners with Mount Auburn.

Capacity is limited to 6 people. Be sure to visit Trinity Hall (beginning April 7) and sign your name on the

sign-up board!

Nothing here yet! Check back soon to see opportunities for this day!

All Day – Serve Day

Time to dust off your work gloves! This day will be packed with hands-on service opportunities for those in our

congregation and community. For more information about the jobs we have lined up, visit Trinity Hall beginning

April 7 and check out the sign-up board!

BEFORE & AFTER SERVICES – Mission Booths in Trinity Hall

Explore a variety of missions that Mount Auburn supports!


3pm to 7pm – Youth “Go and Tell!” with Child Evangelism Fellowship

CEF’s “Go and Tell!” program teaches young people how to share their faith with other children. To read powerful

testimonies of success from this program, please click HERE!

To join our youth and to see what CEF is all about, please visit Trinity Hall beginning April 7 and save your spot by

signing the sign-up board. We only have room to bring 6 adults so, act fast!

To learn more about CEF, visit their website by clicking HERE!


4pm – SAWs Celebration in Carmel

Join Servants at Work (SAWs) as they mark a monumental milestone of 4000 ramps built! They will be meeting at

Plum Creek Golf Club (12401 Lynnwood Blvd, Carmel, IN 46033) in Carmel! To view the official Save-the-date,

please click HERE!

To visit the SAWs website, click HERE.

Missions Team

Mission Partners

The Boaz Project

In 1999, Greenwood resident, April Jurgensen, founded The Boaz Project after living in Russia for two years and growing a heart for orphans. The Boaz Project is devoted to serving the 99% of orphaned children who cannot be adopted. Through structured training, humanitarian aid, and successful in-home models, they are uniquely positioned to help children feel safe and secure, overcome trauma, know the Gospel message, and receive an education that will allow them to thrive and break the cycle of poverty and prostitution. April and her husband Jim say, “It is all God’s doing! We are just blessed to get front row seats!”

Chi Alpha

Mount Auburn supports Alexis Rasmussen with Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship at Indiana University. Alexis is a Center Grove High School graduate and attended Mount Auburn in her youth. Chi Alpha is a campus ministry that is dedicated to reconciling college students to Christ to transform the university, the marketplace, and the world. Jesus' method of reaching the world was small-group discipleship, so their method is the same: engaging college students through spirit-filled communities of prayer, worship, fellowship, discipleship, and mission so they become disciple-makers and life-long followers of Jesus!

Christ Youth Bible Club

Christ Youth Bible Club (“CYBC”) is on a mission to connect the heart of a child to the heart of God through the truth of His word and the love and compassion of Jesus followers. This is done by helping plant school-based Bible Clubs in collaboration with local believers and churches. We currently have 17 clubs in 12 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and 1 high school. Looking at our most recent numbers, we have over 670 students regularly attending CYBC and over 120 adult volunteers participating. God is doing amazing things in our Bible Clubs and we are so grateful to our Partner Churches such as Mount Auburn.

Faith Community Fellowship

Reverend Manubhai and Roshan Mecwan serve as church planters in Central Indiana, throughout the United States and in India. Rev. Mecwan’s passion for the Gospel is infectious, and through his ministry, thousands have been led into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Mount Auburn has partnered with Rev. Mecwan since 2010. Mount Auburn financially supports Rev. Mecwan’s global ministry, and several from the congregation have accompanied him to India.

Gideon's International

Gideons International is a body of believers dedicated to making the Word of God available to everyone and, together with the local church, reaching souls for Christ. Today, Gideons International has taken more than 2 billion Bibles in more than 95 languages to 200 countries, territories, and possessions across the globe. Gideons International exists as an advocate for the lost, to bring them the saving knowledge of the Word through not only placing and distributing Bibles, but also through personal witness and by fellowshipping together for service. Mount Auburn financially supports Gideons International and several congregational members who serve with Gideons International.

Habitat for Humanity

Since 2006, Johnson County Habitat for Humanity has provided affordable housing for 23 families. Mount Auburn Church has helped build at least 16 of these houses. This has consisted of providing financial support, work teams and meals for the workers. The best part of these builds is attending the dedication and seeing the smiles on everyone's faces when they get the keys to their house. The excitement and emotion when they realize they now have a place to call home, is a real blessing!

Interchuch Food Pantry

Centrally located on the north side of Franklin, the Interchurch Food Pantry of Johnson County provides people throughout Johnson County with food at no cost to them. At this time, clients may visit the Pantry weekly. A drive-through delivery process is efficient and provides for safe food delivery loading. Produce is made available for clients to self-select what appeals to them. The Pantry has a menu shopping checklist so that the food received is what clients choose for themselves. The Pantry is 100% volunteer staffed. Several Mount Auburn members regularly volunteer at The Pantry.

The Jesus Film Project

The Jesus Film Project, a ministry of CRU, brings the story of Jesus to screens around the world. With the help of the Bible translation community, they translate "JESUS" and other films into new languages - sometimes before the Bible is printed in those languages! Mount Auburn supports Tony and Diana Speziale who have traveled the world, taking the Jesus Film to Papua New Guinea, Haiti, the Middle East and Thailand, where they also trained local pastors how to use the film to evangelize. There are 3 dozen island nations with 300 unreached people groups in the South Pacific. Which is why the Speziales recently moved to New Zealand to establish a new call.

Kairos Prison Ministry

Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. (Kairos) is a lay‐led, interdenominational Christian ministry in which men and women volunteers bring Christ's love and forgiveness to prisoners and their families. The Kairos programs take the participants on a journey that demonstrates the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ. The programs involve a structured model that includes the weekend experience, followed by participants gathering regularly for accountability, support and prayer. Several members from Mount Auburn serve with Kairos bringing the Gospel to many Indiana prisons.

The Lord's Locker

God blesses those in need through the Lord's Locker, a charity in Trafalgar, IN, with food, clothing, and household items, with the goal to not create a dependency on the facility but rather on JESUS CHRIST. Frequent guests are offered prayer and a biblical devotion to teach them about Jesus. Each week, approximately 95% are rewarded extra food points for completing a simple Bible homework assignment. The Lord’s Locker considers it a JOY to be the middlemen in what GOD does in the hearts of people. Mount Auburn Church supports The Lord’s Locker through financial support, food collections and service projects.

One Mission Society (OMS)

OMS is an evangelical, interdenominational faith mission (with roots in the Wesleyan Holiness tradition) that partners with more than 400 organizations and church denominations around the world for one purpose … to help fulfill the Great Commission by seeing the Gospel of Jesus Christ spread throughout the world with the greatest number of disciples made, and seeing God glorified in all that we say and do. OMS firmly believe the the power of the Gospel, in the hands of disciple-makers, will transform all nations. Mount Auburn supports many missionaries with OMS!

N.O.M.A.D.S.

Nomads on a Mission of Active and Divine Service was started in the late 1980s and has grown over the years. Gene and Carolyn Freeman were active Mount Auburn members who joined the NOMADS prior to their retirement. They continue this important work today. Gene and Carolyn commented, “God has been amazing putting the right people on the team.” NOMADS travel by RV to work on projects in the United States. Regular 3-week projects are mission outreach to churches, children’s homes, retirement communities and camps. NOMADS Disaster Rebuild ministry projects are in communities impacted by floods, tornadoes, fires, and hurricanes.

Trinity UMC

Trinity United Methodist Church is located in Jinja, Uganda. Trinity Hall bears its name as a reminder of our collaboration in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Trinity UMC’s current church building was constructed as a result of Mount Auburn Church tithing 10 percent of the money raised to build the O’Dell Family Life Center. Ever since, Mount Auburn has helped to support Trinity by partially underwriting the salary of their pastor Julius Mugabi. In 2023, we are sending extra support to help Trinity begin a sustainable farming project involving black soldier fliesmand farm animals.

Appeal for the Unreached

There are communities around the world that have little or no access to the Gospel. After 12 years of marriage, Greenwood residents, Steve and Rebecca, were called to bring the Gospel to one of these communities in North Africa. The dominant religion is Islam and Christian evangelism is illegal. Most of those in North Africa do not know about the redemptive work that Christ has done and have had no chance to receive this gift. Our team's goal is to be a witness and shine the light of Jesus in the community. What a privilege we have that we can live, work, and do life in this land. Thank you for your partnership. We greatly appreciate your prayers!

Salvation Army Bell Ringing

Each Christmas season, Mount Auburn Church encourages volunteers to participate in The Salvation Army’s “Red Kettle” campaign. The money raised provides meals for the hungry, nights of shelter, life skills counseling, Christmas gifts for kids, and much more. In 2022, we had 16 ringers at the Meridian Parke Kroger and raised over $850 for The Salvation Army.

United Way Christmas Angels

Every December, Mount Auburn Church partners with United Way of Johnson County to provide Christmas presents to families in need. In 2022, Mount Auburn Church helped 17 families, including 52 children. Volunteers are needed to 1) purchase and wrap presents; 2) deliver presents to families; and 3) offer prayer to families.

World Vision

World Vision is the largest non-governmental provider of clean water in the world. Last year World Vision reached over 4.6 million new people with clean water. World Vision aspires to be like Jesus, so they serve all people, regardless of their religion, ethnicity or gender. Mount Auburn's "Team World Vision", a team of several persons from and related to Mount Auburn and coordinated by Gretchen Beaman, was formed in 2017 to run/walk as a World Vision team to raise awareness and funding for clean water, improved sanitation, and hygiene to those in need around the globe. In 2022, our team raised over $11,000 bringing clean water to 220 people.

Opportunities for Missions

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Music & Worship

God has, since the beginning of creation, invited His people to participate in covenant relationship with Him (Genesis 17:7). When we come together at God’s

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Seniors

Our Senior Moment’s Ministry is for older adults who want to connect with men and women their age through special events, serving opportunities, and more.

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Men

Our Men’s Ministry meets weekly to dive deep into Scripture and come alongside each other in life. We also have occasional events and opportunities to serve our community.

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Women

Are you looking for a way to connect to other women? Do you want to know women who share your beliefs, your interests, and your love of the Lord? Do you want to have a little fun? Consider the Mount Auburn Women’s Ministry.

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Children

Our children’s ministry takes place on Sunday mornings and occasional events. Nursery and children’s church (infant to 5th grade) is available at our 9 am service and children’s church only (potty-trained children to 5th grade) is available at our 10:30 am service.

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Students

Our Student Ministry consists of Middle and High School students! We go on mission trips, attend fun conferences, serve our communities, hang out, and ask the hard questions of this generation together, looking to Christ!

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