MPC designates at least 10% of its operating budget (excluding “Missions”) for Missions. Counting the budgeted amounts and other monies designated to missions during the year, the actual percentage normally exceeds 15%.
SUMMER MISSION TRIP Each summer, MPC sends a Team on a one-week mission trip to locations such as: Mexico, Phoenix AZ (Pima Indians), Bremerton WA (Lumi Indians), Fairmont WV, Adullam House, Ridge Haven NC, Biloxi MS, and Iowa City IA.
WINTER MISSION TRIP Each February, MPC sends a team to the Palmer Home for Children in Columbus, Mississippi, to complete general maintenance projects, as needed.
OTHER MISSION EFFORTS In 2005, as a result of Hurricane Katrina, MPC housed and cared for 18 evacuees for approximately three months. In 2006, we sent a team to Chalmette, LA to rebuild a house badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina; this house belonged to one of the 18 evacuees mentioned above. In 2007, two teams went to Chalmette and completed the rebuilding project. MPC is quick to respond to local disasters, as needed–for example, the tornados that struck Alabama in April 2011. As a church family, we support (either regularly or meeting specific needs) several local missions organizations, such as the West Elmore County Outreach Ministry Extension (WELCOME) in Millbrook, Friendship Mission and Church in Montgomery, Save-a-Life in Montgomery, and River Region Pregnancy Center in Prattville.
Sponsored Missionaries not pictured: Wallace Pouncy (Bolivia)
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- Joe and Becky Harrell
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- Marshall and Becca Kitron
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- Wayne and Amy Newsome
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- Mike and Eli Sabin
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- Jim and Caty Tate
WELCOME Food Pantry
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land. Deut. 15:11
WELCOME Food Pantry – Christian Outreach in Millbrook, AL
WELCOME Food Pantry is the largest mission ministry of Millbrook Presbyterian Church. It is a 501c3 nonprofit corporation owned and governed by MPC along with seven other local churches called Stakeholders. Together, we provide food to over 450 families each month. These are our neighbors living among us. They are often invisible, often overlooked yet loved by God and we ar.
We are governed by a Board made up of members assigned by each Stakeholder church. WELCOME is primarily supported by volunteers from the community and led by our Executive Director and Assistant Director It is funded through donations from local churches, charitable grants, civic organizations, local businesses, and individuals. We also receive donations from Elmore County and local municipalities, but we operate as a private ministry. In 2024 we provided approximately $2,000,000 worth of food to the food insecure of west Elmore County. If you or your church would like to participate in this vital ministry, please contact us and we will further explain this vital ministry.
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. Mat 25:35,36
