2011 UBC Missions Recap

In 2011-UBC showed up like never before all across this city

Together …all ages, all abilities, all colors, all nationalities — you rolled up your sleeves, got out there and showed the love of Christ. With  hundreds of hours and thousands of tithed dollars you painted and landscaped two neighborhood houses and a public school in Coconut Grove, you built two houses in Liberty city and a missionary’s house in Nicaragua, you fixed 300 chairs, painted and decorated 10 rooms in a women’s recovery facility and decorated 12 more rooms in an orphanage, you built fences and picnic tables,  hosted inner city family fun days with hot dogs, bounce house, arts and crafts–you spread the dirt, laid the lumber, built and and planted four neighborhood raised gardens, repaired a huge roof, painted the exterior of three buildings, hosted bible study every Monday, all year without fail, at the South Florida Jail and gave every inmate who listened – a bible,  you donated tools, computers, hundreds of pounds of shoes clothing, and furniture, you bought three cars for families in desperate need, fed hundreds of people through our neighborhood food pantry, we collected 35,000 lbs of food for distribution all over this City, prepared over 100 meals for delivery for Thanksgiving in Miami and hundreds more under our roof, in Overtown we provided full stockings for dozens of children and hundreds of Christmas presents for the neighborhood, worked with a school for disabled children where our children played with theirs and wheelchairs and deafness did not set the limit on fun, we sent 30 kids to camp would have otherwise never been able to go, we landscaped and beautified a teen orphanage, at a Medicaid assisted living facility our youth burst into spontaneous carols and hugged the elderly while their parents pressure cleaned patios, planted landscape – a place where no church had ever done before, We supported after school literacy programs and hosted week long  camps in the poorest zip codes of Miami, we gave hope to UBC families who were hit very hard in these trying times, many of who recovered and continue to give back.

You supported seven 7 international full time UBC missionaries in Ecuador, Brazil, the Bahamas, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan. You built a church in Haiti that was an answer to a decade of prayer from the village. You sent three who have been set aside by Christ to seminary, 104 planned and executed worldwide missions, we trained pastors in Cuba, taught VBC in the Dominican, sent families to serve families and youth to serve youth in Nicaragua, in the favelas of Brazil we  handed out water filters, administered church, taught daily bible camp. You sent three teams to Bahamas to finish a missions house for dozens of teams to come. They built showers, installed electric, built 20 bunk beds and the raised beds on the farm to finish what will be the largest feeding program the island of Grand Bahama has ever seen.  You gave the Christ story to hundreds who listened for the first time in our city and beyond, you prayed with those who had no hope each week.

This takes time, this takes talent, this takes treasure.

It’s called BENEVOLENCE.
Its’ called doing unto others as you would want done unto you.
It’s called UBC