Missions
LOCAL PARTNERS

YOUTH FOR CHRIST (YFC)
Youth for Christ (YFC) reaches young students and people everywhere, working together with the local churches and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus Christ.
With 15 ministry sites throughout the greater Louisville area (including middle and high school campuses and community centers) we desire to reach students where they are and help them get to where they need to be. Every day in community centers, high schools, middle schools, coffee shops and local hangouts, YFC staff and volunteers meet with young people who need Jesus. Our focus is on multiplying fruitful and sustainable ministry sites by recruiting, training and empowering local churches to develop a holistic, relational approach to reaching today’s youth and their families.
To learn more, visit www.yfclouisville.com
HLBC Contact Person: Will Howlett by email w.howlett@yfclouisville.com
Ways you can help:
Be a Volunteer
Become a Ministry Site
Champion
Mentor a Student
Donate (yfclouisville.com)
Service Opportunities:
Mentoring; 1:1 and 1:3
Small Group and 1:1 and 1:3
Tutoring and GED Training
Life Skill development classes
Job Skills (applications and resumes, money management, etc.)
The Hunsinger Lane Community Garden was established in the Spring of 2017. The vision was to provide a garden area where members of HLBC could build relationships with the surrounding residents in our community. The goal has been to make disciples through growing vegetables and establishing fellowship.
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
• Serving on Garden Team
• Communications
• Helping to prepare and maintain the Garden
• Financial Support
HLBC Point of Contact:
John Blake (‘Tripp’)
Trippthewindowman@gmail.com
The Fuller Center for Housing, faith-driven and Christ-centered, promotes collaboration and innovative partnerships with individuals and organizations in an unrelenting quest to provide adequate shelter for all people in need worldwide.
The Fuller Center for Housing’s purpose is simple. The city of Louisville has over 7,400 vacant and abandoned properties with over 4,460 of these homes in the heart of West Louisville neighborhoods where we are located. The FCH’s project involves tearing down these properties, rebuilding lives and rehabbing these homes for deserving poor and low-income families to have a safe place to lay their heads at night that they can and will call ‘home’.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
• Help with Construction
• Schedule a Group Project
• Donate Time
• Donate ‘In Kind’ Items (tools and materials)
• Donate a Home
• Sponsor a Home
• Sponsor an Event
HLBC Point of Contact:
John Blake (‘Tripp’)
Trippthewindowman@gmail.com
The HLBC Food Pantry exists to serve those in our local community who are needing one of life’s basic necessities; food. On a weekly basis, every Wednesday evening, an average of 35 to 50 families are receiving a generous portion of meat, vegetables, bread, non-perishable foods, and etc. These persons are treated with respect, dignity and offered prayer. The aim of this ministry is to demonstrate the love of Christ in hopes of encouraging them to grow in their relationship with Christ.
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
• Transporting Food
• Sorting and bagging Food
• Greeting Recipients
• Praying with Recipients
• Delivering Food to Vehicles
HLBC Point of Contact:
Cheryl Singleton
CherylMSingleton@bellsouth.net
This ministry exists to protect the lives of unborn children and to present the gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed to those who are facing or have experienced a crisis pregnancy.
This Ministry Provides:
• Free Pregnancy Counseling
• Counseling for Women who have had Abortions
• Abortion and Pregnancy Alternatives
• Free Ultrasounds
• Life Skills Training
• Referrals for: Medical Care, Financial Assistance, Legal Assistance and Adoption Services
Volunteer Opportunities Include:
• Crisis Pregnancy Counseling
• Medical Professionals and Assistants
• GED Language
• Preparing Meals
• Donor Relations
• Grounds and Housekeeping
• Reception Volunteer
• Organizing Baby and Maternity Clothes
• Children’s Ministry
• Prayer Ministry
• Event Planning
• Church Liaison
Every year we participate in a baby bottle collection. We distribute empty baby bottles and fill them with loose change and return them as a special offering of extra financial support.
HLBC Point of Contact:
Mary Beth Blake
mareblake84@gmail.com
Hands of Hope exists to share the love of Jesus to the residents of the Budgetel Inn, while encouraging and challenging women to be the best they can be, and helping them understand that life is incredibly difficult especially in their life stage. But by the grace of God all things are possible, and we encourage them by offering a once a month outreach and which includes fellowship, a gospel message and invitation, and door prizes. We serve a Thanksgiving and Christmas meal every single year.
How can you serve:
• Donate Personal Care Items
• Lead Worship for monthly
• Provide a Meal
• Serve or help make box meals (due to covid)
• Lead a devotion at the once a month
• Lead a Bible Study
HLBC Point of Contact:
Kimberly Robinson
handsofhope4women@gmail.com
International Missionaries
Seed Ministry Serving in Ghana, Africa
Seed Ministry was formed by Bob and Bonnie Parker many years ago for the purpose of reaching the next generation with Gospel message. God called the Parkers to sell all of their earthly possessions and answer His call of going to Tamale, Ghana West Africa in 2000. God is working through them to develop, maintain, and grow “back yard bible clubs” where children gather and hear the Gospel and grow in biblical under-standing. Currently there are over 300 bible clubs that meet every week with over 10,000 children attending weekly.
Bob and Bonnie have established biblical leadership training to continue equipping strong adult leaders, teachers, and pastors to carry on the work. In 2013, the Church Leaders Training Academy was established (CLTA).
Volunteer opportunities include prayer, giving, and going. Every other year, a team goes to partner with Bob and Bonnie to keep sharing the gospel with the children and adults of Tamale, Ghana.
Next Trip: A short term trip is planned for the Summer of 2021. A team will begin forming in January of 2021. There will be opportunities for leading in children’s ministry, women’s ministry, engaging in one-on-one evangelism, as well as discipling church leaders.
HLBC Contact Person: Sherri Selby at kipsherri@bellsouth.net
Church Planter and Sender Serving in Indonesia
MAPS (Mandat Agung Pelita Semesta) is a newly founded organization with the vision of every tribe, tongue and nation worshipping God in, and through, local churches that obey all Christ commands. Established on April 18, 2019, in Medan, Indonesia, MAPS is a registered foundation focused on sending field workers to the 53 Unreached People Groups (UPG’s) of Sumatra.
Volunteer opportunities include: prayer, adopting an Unreached People Group, supporting one of the field workers (salary and expenses for one year is $8,700), going on a trip to provide training and encouragement to Martin and the field workers.
Contact the MAPS team directly: yayasanmaps@gmail.com
HLBC Contact Person: Sherri Selby at kipsherri@bellsouth.net
Church Planters Serving in Gillette, Wyoming
After many years of fruitful ministry with HLBC, in 2018, Quinton, Cindi and their boys left Louisville for Gillette, Wyoming. The Bridges answered God’s call upon their lives and began serving as church planters to help revitalize a congregation.
HLBC is providing prayer support and a trip is being planned for next year (2021) to help support their efforts.
HLBC Contact Person: Will Howlett, w.howlett@yfclouisville.com
Teachers and Leaders Serving in Asia
R & A are serving as Christ’s ambassadors through HLBC by working as an administrator, principal, coach, ESL (English as a Second Language), and as a friend at a local school. The Jeffers are building relationships with co-workers, students and parents for the purpose of sharing the good news of the gospel. Currently, the Jeffers are back in the U.S. waiting for clearance to go back. Although COVID-19 has made traveling back a difficult preposition, they are eager to go back to the mission field to serve the Lord.
Ways to serve: prayer, email them with encouraging news, send a Care-Package, Video Message to encourage them
Please contact Sherri Selby at kipsherri@bellsouth.net for information on communicating with them.
Our Mission Partners
For the past 8 years, HLBC has provided space, prayer and financial support to the work of New Jerusalem Baptist Church. It continues to be a great blessing to partner with Pastor Ernesto and his family in reaching the lost and making disciples.
Leader: Pastor Ernesto Font
HLBC Point of Contact: Hector Medina
Hunsinger Lane is one of approximately 150 Southern Baptist Churches in the greater Louisville area that voluntarily cooperates together to form the Louisville Regional Baptist Association. We contribute financially on a monthly basis to the Association which supports the ministries of church planting, church revitalization, mercy ministries, and other various ministries to the poor and hurting of our city.
North American Mission Board is the ministry arm of the 45,000 Southern Baptist Churches throughout the U.S. and is responsible for providing strategic leadership, training, oversight and support for national church planting efforts. HLBC provides monthly financial giving in supporting this effort.
International Mission Board (IMB) is the ministry arm of all ~45,000 Southern Baptist Churches throughout the U.S. and is responsible for providing strategic leadership, training, oversight and support for advancing the gospel to the various people groups of the world. The IMB currently supports the largest mission force on the planet; approximately 3,714 missionary families are engaged in evangelism, disciple-making and church planting with over 847 different people groups around the globe. HLBC financially supports these efforts on a monthly basis, as well as partner-ing directly with several missionaries, especially in Southeast Asia.