Woodridge Christian Church is a medium sized congregation located on the far east side of Wichita. A few years ago, they identified themselves, through study, as a group with a common spiritual gift of “Being Helpers”. Based on this foundational knowledge they set out to implement and initiate a comprehensive mission program with a common goal to, “Reach out. Lift up. Teach Love”.
By design their mission program is set-up to connect and equip based on a model of the 3-legged stool. One leg is for local mission where WCC members reach out in the community with service programs working with The Ronald McDonald House to provide meals for long-stay hospital families.
Organizing and playing BINGO with the veterans at the Bob Dole Regional VA Medical Center, or most recently providing a fund-raiser for Sunlight Child Advocacy in support of abused or neglected children. The WCC youth reach out through service programs like Random Acts of Kindness, delivering Valentines and Christmas Poinsettias to local nursing homes and making sleeping mats for the homeless.
A second leg involves a regional or national scope where WCC volunteers give up to a week of their time in service projects where there is need. Whether it’s hurricane relief in New Orleans or Houston, service projects in Detroit or providing aid where needed in Colorado or Oklahoma, WCC members will travel to connect.
The third leg involves WCC’s commitment to La Flor, a small village in the mountains of Nicaragua. With help from Just Hope, a service organization headquartered in Tulsa, members have travelled to La Flor to help build homes and latrines.
From Wichita the congregation has provided the community with regular monetary support for a micro-bank program, health services and children’s education.
WCC’s mission program is a faithful execution of their three-part goal, and they are connecting and equipping around the world.