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“Jesus said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.’” – Mark 16:15


LOCAL MISSIONS

Locally we have been actively involved in starting several new congregations here in Utah (Shadow Mountain Church in West Jordan and SMCC Daybreak campus in Herriman). We recently brought Desert Springs Church in St. George into the SMCC family, and now call it The Springs. And we are involved with organizations such as Holding Out H.E.L.P, the Salt Lake Rescue Mission and the Utah Dream Center.

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS

One of our missional goals is to support organizations whose main purpose is to train local pastors to be sent out into their own community to plant churches and see lives changed for Christ.

Internationally, we are involved with International Christian Ministries (ICM). ICM’s primary international mission goal is to train pastors in order to equip them to support their local communities. We also support Hungry For Life. See Short Term Missions below for more information on how SMCC is working with HFL in that area. In Marafa, Kenya, SMCC, in partnership with World Vision, has helped fund a micro-loan program to combat the cycle of poverty and suffering there, and several hundred children in the Marafa area are also being sponsored by SMCC attenders.

SHORT TERM MISSION TRIPS

With improvements in the cost and ease of travel, the increase in cultural diversity in many parts of the world, and the availability of information, short term mission trips have become increasingly popular in recent years.  SMCC believes that these trips can be valuable experiences for the trip takers, the long-term missionaries in the field, and the local people being ministered to.  SMCC attenders have served  on trips to  countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, India, Haiti and Mexico.  With the proliferation of short term opportunities, there is also a need to ensure that these trips are high quality and effective at furthering the kingdom of God. Hungry For Life is coordinating several upcoming short term mission trips to both Haiti and Guatemala .

Men’s Guatemala Mission Trip
SMCC men will be traveling to Membrillal, Guatemala November 12-20, 2011. The team will be involved in construction and evangelistic activities.

SMCC Haiti Trip
SMCC participants will be going to Terrier-Rouge in Haiti from April 13 through 22, 2012. Anyone interested in learning about this mission trip is invited to contact Shawna Tollestrup at sktollestrup@yahoo.com

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Links to Organizations

Below are links to some of the organizations that SMCC supports and/or agrees with.

We want to encourage the SMCC congregation to learn about these various ministries in order to pray for and praise God for the victories and changed lives they have seen.