Lakeside Christian is a missions minded church! We are currently supporting 4 local missions here in the San Diego area, and 5 international ones. Mission contact people are needed for 3 of our international missions, and our Short Term missions coordinator is seeking an assistant! You are always welcome to attend our monthly meetings or contact any of us for information.
Being a missions contact is a great blessing, and you need only a small amount of time each month. There is no commitment of money or travel required- just a heart for our missionaries and the places where they work to spread the Good News and help others.
The Short Term assistant will help our coordinator, Brian Brackrog, to plan, organize and advertise short term trips for our congregation- both for local outreaches and to help our existing missions. This is a fun and exciting job for an energetic couple or member!
Our Local Missions
Featherstone Christian Camp- though mostly destroyed by the Cedar Fire, the camp is nearly rebuilt and better than ever! Year round camps and retreats are held here. It is located in Lakeside, on Featherstone Canyon Road, just past the Barona Hotel & Casino.
LCC Contact: Everett Hunter
Lakeside Christian Helps Center- exists to help the poor and homeless of our community by giving them food, clothing and other items necessary for their well-being. They hand out sleeping bags every year, as well as holding Back-to-School and Christmas giveaways. Help Center clients are never charged for what they receive.
LCC Contact: Shelley Thompson
College Area Pregnancy Services- meets the needs of women in our community facing unintended pregnancies through clinical support, counseling and prevention education. Located at the corner of El Cajon Blvd. and Montezuma in the Music Trader Shopping Center. Walk-ins are welcome, or appointments can be made online. (See “links”.)
LCC Contact: Tracy Garvin
Short Term Missions- seeks to reach out with special service to our community and our existing missions. While trips to international missions are planned about once a year (such as helping at Kulphar and El Faro,) many Short Term missions take place right here in our community, like our Bible giveaway at Lindo Lake Park. Watch for the next event.
LCC Contact: Brian Brackrog Assistant(s) needed
International Missions:
El Faro- is a prison ministry and interim living facility in Mexico. Our missionary, Stacy Fredericks, holds Bible studies in two women’s prison facilities and runs an interim house where those just getting out of prison can live for a time and adjust to being in society. Here they can learn life skills, and how to make better choices for their lives.
LCC Contact: Available
Kulpahar Kids Home -Kulpahar is an orphan’s home,school and hospital located in Kulpahar, India. the very first orphans raised here are now helping to run the facility. They serve not only the Christian people of the area, but also those of other local religion. Hindu families have found that their children do better at the Kulpahar school than at other schools in the area. The hospital is also used by all in the region.
LCC Contact: Available
Ministerios Puente- means ‘Bridge Ministeries’, and is an orphan’s home for abused and neglected children in Culiacan, Mexico. Run by Virgil and Beth Riess, this mission attempts to be a ‘bridge’ for these children between their old, abused life and a productive, Christian adulthood.
LCC Contact: Available
Ninos de Baja- located in Ejido el Povenir, Mexico, Ninos de Baja is a children’s home,
daycare center and Sunday school. they also provide Kindergarden help for area children. (Kindergarden is not free in Mexico.) They also do many community outreaches. It is run by Don and Carol Hinton, and they love to have visitors- they will even meet you at the border!
daycare center and Sunday school. they also provide Kindergarden help for area children. (Kindergarden is not free in Mexico.) They also do many community outreaches. It is run by Don and Carol Hinton, and they love to have visitors- they will even meet you at the border!LCC Contact: Available
Pioneer Bible Translators- has a goal of translating the Bible into every known language, even those who do not have an alphabet. Our missionaries, Dave and Alice Parrish, are responsible for recruiting survey and translation teams to go into an area, learn the language, make an alphabet for it, teach native speakers to read it, and translate the Bible. They are currently overseeing work in New Guinea, Vanuatu and Central Asia.
LCC Contact: Kathy Hess
Christian Mission Press - Christian Mission Press translates Sunday school and VBS materials into Spanish and sends them into various South American countries, as well as Spain and Angola. Gordon Clifford is in charge of the mission.
LCC Contact: Kathy Roseberry
Links to some missions:
College Area Pregnancy Services:
Featherstone Christian Camp:
El Faro:
Ninos de Baja:
Pioneer Bible Translators: