Brief History
Heartland Missions not only touches the lives of people in remote corners of the world, it touches the lives of those who serve and builds leaders for the Kingdom of Christ -- leaders such as Ted and Kim Treadway (pictured) who led a group into the Peten Jungle in the Spring of 2003. Our trips provide new opportunities and experiences. In June 2003, our first street ministry effort returned reporting how God supernaturally provided the contacts and translators needed to communicate with the people.
Whom do we serve?
Our missions teams give time, labor, and themselves helping others. For them it brings home the reality of Christ's expectations for all believers -- Going "into all the world" and making disciples. Since the first trip in 1995, over 50 people have served on short-term mission trips.
For some of us, our eyes were opened for the first time to the world outside of the United States. We saw, first hand, what it is like to live in a country that struggles to survive on meager resources. We offered hope and assistance to many struggling to survive, day-to-day, as they questioned their abilities to meet their families' needs. We began to appreciate the blessings of an abundance of food, water, shelter, and clothing within our reach. These are the kinds of things we always assume will be there every time we have need of them.
Our goal is to assist fulltime missionaries by providing short-term missionaries to meet specific needs. In doing this, we equip people from all walks of life to serve on short-term missions trips and organize temporary workforces for missionaries on the field. We train, develop, and spread a vision for missions into the lives of those called to serve in short-term missions.
What are their needs, and how do we address these challenges?
Short-term missions trips provided the catalyst for the choice to enter fulltime missions service for nearly 70% of today's fulltime missionaries. These short-term experiences prepared them for the challenges of being a missionary. Our goal is to assist prospective short-term missionaries prepare for service through an extensive learning process before they ever leave the country. We assist them in raising financial support to meet their expenses.
While our team works together to help fund its portion of the financial obligations of a short-term mission trip, it takes several hundreds dollars to send someone on a short-term trip. Partners are needed to share the expenses of building new buildings, feeding the poor, and purchasing teaching materials for the countries we serve. Prayerfully consider partnering with a team member financially, to help shoulder the burden.
Since 1995, Heartland Missions has:
-Taken 4 short-term trips to Guatemala.
-Two trips to Italy.
-Helped send over 80 people on short-term trips.
-Built 2 churches, and a feeding clinic .
-Handed out salvation tracts and witnessed to two communities in Italy.
-Outfitted an orphanage with bunk beds and mattresses.
-Supplied over 3500 lbs of clothes to needy children.
-Helped paint and stucco two churches.
-Worked with disaster clean-up in a local community.
-Raised over $75,000 in support that went directly into missions.
-Helped provide food and clothing for local mission organizations.
-Raised thousands of dollars for World Famine Relief (30 Hour Famine).
All of our efforts have been governed by Heartland Community Church, and have been audited by PJ Patterson Accounting firm. Every dollar raised, has gone directly into helping those for whom we serve. Our Goals For The Future: -Reaching out to a hurting world through the people we train for ministry. When you choose to support . . . Here's what you receive: Insight into what God is accomplishing through our short-term missionaries around the world. Follow-up reviews with real people who have been helped current status of growth and challenges for our missionaries first hand exciting perspectives from our missionaries results of mission and relief activities. Special reports directly from the mission field! The satisfaction of helping feed and cloth mothers and children in third world countries by helping send short-term missionaries into the field. How you can get involved: In her
-Meeting the demand of sending short-term teams on the field.
-Supporting long-term missionaries with additional finances.
-Working on homes and building new buildings for the feeding program in the Peten Jungle of Guatemala.
-Raising mission awareness to our local community and church.
-Maintaining a reputation above reproach in the area of finances.
At the age of fifty-three, billionaire John D. Rockefeller was miserable from lack of sleep, was unloved, needed bodyguards, and had a rare disease. He lost too much weight and all his hair. Physicians gave him a year to live. As he began to think about eternal issues, he his focus on money changed. He established the Rockefeller Foundation and began giving his money away to help hospitals and health research, schools, and churches. He no longer worried about maintaining his wealth. His health improved, and he lived to be ninety-eight.
You can be involved in a variety of ways:
"What missions is doing is merely a drop in the ocean. While our effort may only be a drop, the ocean would be less if it weren’t there. What we do is something small, but we do it with big hearts . At death, we will not be judged by the amount of work we did, but by the amount of love we put into it. We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds... Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.”
It takes all of us to reach out to a hurting world. Do you want to be great in the kingdom of God? Think about the needs of others more than your own needs.” Guatemala, India, Italy and Europe are waiting for people like you and me to “pick up our broom.
What will you do?