- Missions

Baylake supports a wide variety of Mission Projects
locally and throughout the world

Our mission focus this year is the Sudan. Learn how you can make a difference.

Contact the church office at 757-464-2423 or visit www.SudanCan.com

(Click Here)

View Ellen Cummings's Photos from her trip to Sudan - March 2009

(This is a large "pdf" file an may take a little extra time to open.)

Learn more about THE LOST BOYS of SUDAN EDUCATION FUND - CLICK HERE

Interested in a trip to God's Country? Your Missions Ministry Team invites you to learn more about the Appalachia Service Project and how adults and youth can support this vital ministry in 2010-11. Please visit the ASP website at http://www.asphome.org/.

Baylake is continuing its Appalachia Service Project preparations for next summer! Baylake's support of this "Day-away" mission has enabled several teams, for each of the past four years, to provide warm, safe, and dry living conditions for our brothers and sisters in Appalachia. We hope to reach that goal again this year. Please give serious consideration to supporting a person at $225 or a team at $460. Make your checks payable to BUMC and indicate your ASP support in the memo line. Please contact Charles Baker with questions at 630-6441.

Click Here for Photos of Baylake UMC ASP Mission Trips

ASP Form available - Click here

Live Simply so Others May Simply Live - During and 2010, our mission focus is on making a difference locally, "a day away," and globally. The Mission Committee has designated several target organizations (St. Paul UMC's Life Essentials, ASP, Sudan Initiatives, Society of St. Andrew, AGAPE, and Heifer Project). We urge you to consider including any or all of these organizations as part of your gift-giving this year. Please designate your preference(s) in the memo line of your check. We're suggesting that families scale back and simplify their personal gift-giving and donate their financial support to these mission projects in an amount equal to what you will spend on gifts and other celebrations. We are blessed with so many frivolous material "things," and there is such great need for the most basic necessities of life, locally and around the world. As you prepare for gift-giving, please share some of your abundance with those less fortunate. Our mission emphasis theme for 2010 is Live Simply so Others May Simply Live.

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Baylake participates in several ongoing missions outreach projects throughout the year, including the Virginia Beach Winter Shelter Program. Homeless men and women are provided shelter for the night, ten days at a time, in various local churches during the cold winter months.

Baylake youth regularly prepare and serve meals at the Judeo / Christian Outreach Center.

Our congregation stocks and maintains a Food Closet year round for needy families, and we prepare and distribute Christmas and Thanksgiving baskets of food and gifts during the holidays.

On Sweater Sunday, our congregation collects sweaters and other cold-weather clothing for distribution to the needy during the winter.

The church is also very involved in prison ministry at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center.

Community Service

Other specific Missions projects include:

Wesley Community Service Center
Urban Discovery Ministries
Seton House
Samaritan Fund
Heart Havens Inc.
All God's Children
Society of St. Andrew
Volunteers in Missions
U.M.C.O.R.
Missionary Support
Heifer Project

Global Missions

The primary mission of The United Methodist Church,
as stated in our Book of Discipline, is

"To make disciples of Jesus Christ."

This is also the goal of the General Board of Global Ministries. Baylake UMC supports the programs of the GBGM as it works to "Strengthen, develop and renew Christian congregations and communities."

GBGM’s Vision is vital congregations in every place: congregations that worship, witness, nurture disciples, and serve God's people.

Baylake supports GBGM’s Mission Initiatives, contributing funds toward:

Emerging churches in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America

Congregation partnerships (In Mission Together)

Other special initiatives in congregational development