Advice and Aid is a local organization assisting women in both Shawnee and Overland Park areas facing the unknown of pregnancy. Some primary services include options counseling, pregnancy tests, and OB sonograms all completely confidential and free of cost. You can get involved through connecting with Advice & Aid as a client advocate, donation organizer, receptionist, providing snacks during the support group, and much more!

Driven By Faith is a ministry that helps take older vehicles that are still functioning and gift them to men and women who are moving forward into a new life in Christ. Hope Faith ministries partners with Driven By Faith by providing a list of candidates who have accepted God's forgiveness and have made the necessary steps to being fully restored in Christ and in society. If you have a car that you don't need, or isn't worth trading in, or you just want to be rid of it; contact Driven By Faith and let someone be blessed by being able to drive that car in a new life of purpose.

Freedom Fire is an urban ministry in the heart of downtown Kansas City. The organization is dedicated to strengthening the young people of the inner city by equipping them to guide the community spiritually, economically, and socially. You can get involved by attending a Freedom Fire Friday Night Live which typically occurs the 4th Friday of every month (search the Outreach category on the online calendar). You can also get involved by becoming a tutor for one of the kids they work with. For more information on Freedom Fire and more ways to get involved, please visit their website.

Heartland Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. The organization organizes teams to build and renovate houses (over 200,000 houses worldwide since 1976). You can get involved by forming a team to build or providing supplies for the construction.

Hope Faith Ministries is a faith-based ministry that serves the needs of the homeless and less fortunate in Kansas City. Hope Faith serves as centralized location to provide various resources from emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual needs to aid the homeless and less fortunate get back on their feet. You can get involved by bringing your gently used clothing to one of our bins at the front or attending one of the Hope Faith Family Serve Day (second Saturday of every month – Sep 8th)

Kansas City Rescue Mission is a Christ-centered community in downtown Kansas City. They provide a wide range of services including food, safe shelter, clean facilities, case management, a recovery program, and job and life-skills training. You can get involved by serving a meal onsite, organizing donations, leading a Bible study, or attending the weekly “Game Nights” – every Saturday night from 5:30-7:00p.

Mission Southside’s purpose is to partner with churches, “helps” organizations, businesses, and individuals to bring help and hope to those in need throughout the Johnson County area by meeting physical and spiritual needs. They sponsor free garage sales, a back snack program, providing hot meals on Wednesday nights, and free pickup for furniture donations. An area Grace desires involvement is the Back Snack program which provides food for children who would otherwise have nothing to eat on the weekends.

PastorServe is a group of pastors, leaders, counselors, and teachers dedicated to helping those who have dedicated their lives to ministry. PastorServe helps equip pastors for the very real challenges they face in their ministry and in times of crisis through providing coaching & training, crisis care, and resources. While PastorServe does not offer events or opportunities to get involved very often, it is a relief knowing that a ministry such as this exists for any pastor at Grace or any other church in our area. We have active Grace attendees that are part of their ministry and we are honored to support their efforts.

ACORN, A Community Oriented Rehabilitation Network, is a Holland based NGO that was started 19 years ago. ACORN's vision is to bring lasting improvements in the quality of life for vulnerable and isolated communities in disadvantaged regions in the world. Previous ACORN projects in Northern Iraq have focused on services for children with disabilities, Physical Therapy Education, training for teachers of children with learning difficulties, publishing educational materials, providing an income generating project for widows, and developing an agricultural project.

Grace believes we can have the greatest impact by strategically and intentionally focusing on a “least reached” people group. Since 2009, we’ve focused our efforts on the Kurdish people in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq and here in the USA. Projects that Grace has been involved in have included church planting, village outreach, a hair salon/professional exchange, a bee-keeping farm, and soy bean plant, a widow housing project, and others. We believe that by investing into the lives of Kurds we can help the Kurdish people reach their own with the Gospel.

Doug & Camelia are missionaries sent by Grace Church and have been church planters in Brasov, Romania with Global Church – Biserica International, Brasov since November of 2011. Doug & Camelia have three daughters Olivia, Mira, and the newest daughter, Attalia Sue Howey who was born on June 30th of this year. Doug was previously on staff at Grace and felt led to return to Romania, the birthplace of his wife, in order to lead a church there. Currently, they are studying the language and learning the culture while working with Romanian pastors to develop their church in Brasov, one of the largest cities in Romania.

Good News In Action has been sharing the Gospel with people in the marketplaces of the world and planting churches in an effort to glorify God through the expansion of His kingdom.

Since 1985, Good News In Action has seen over 230,000 people make professions of faith in its evangelistic outreaches and helped start over 50 churches. It is currently helping support 16 national missionaries in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua and will be starting a new work in Costa Rica next year. Grace Church has been a partner with Good News in Action since 1999, providing prayer and financial support. In addition, Grace Church has participated in many short-term mission trips to Central America from 2000 to 2007.

Jim and Kathy have been working in El Salvador, Central America, the past 15 years planting a church and working together with the Salvadoran people to help improve their quality of life and education, and give people hope for a better future. They have been reaching out to the community through evangelism campaigns and concerts, family activities, carnivals teaching ESL, and doing various building projects and disaster relief.

A new missions opportunity opened up in the Middle East and Jim was approached to accept this new opportunity to move his family from El Salvador to the Middle East to start and operate an International Language Academy. Through prayer and seeking wisdom, the whole family received confirmation that going to the Middle East was exactly what God wanted them all to do and they are in the process of making that move now. Please be in prayer for them as they settle in their new position and that God will give them great access to their new country.

Mission of Hope is a Christ-centered organization that exists to bring life transformation to every man, woman, and child in Haiti. Mission of Hope focuses on advancing the church, Christ-centered education, and meeting needs by providing nutrition, healthcare, orphan care, and more. Grace Church first began partnership with Mission of Hope when Grace Student Ministries traveled to Haiti in the summer of 2012. For more information check out their webpage.

The Daniels are church-planting missionaries sent out from a local church in Jacksonville, Arkansas to Uganda, East Africa. They help start independent churches in Uganda. They currently have five churches, including two new baby ones. The Daniels train men and women for Christian ministry through a Bible Institute program. Most of their classes are in English, and they welcome mature, trained teachers who would like to come and help train people on either a short- term or long-term basis.

Samir and Amy are Avant Ministries missionaries using the internet as a medium for their witness and outreach. Their web site is the biggest apologetic web site regarding Is- lam and Christianity with over 10,000 visitors a day and communicate with several Muslims through email in closed countries like Saudi, Iraq, and Libya. Through the use of the internet, they reach any Arabic speaking Muslim anywhere in the world.

Sazan, a native Albanian, followed God’s call to start a church in Durres to reach young men and women. With the addition of 4 Albanian men and women along with 3 American men and women, the church has grown so much (doubled in the past 15 years) that they are in need of a bigger building. Their primary focus is on evangelism.

The Bakers are now in Valladolid, Spain and are working with Spaniards to learn the language. They have spent a great deal of time trying to reach the Spaniards and have been able to use an English conversation group to both hone their language skills and to begin reaching the locals. They are also currently building their team and have had some remarkable contacts with people. Please pray that they continue to gain competency in the language and to build those crucial relationships that will give them great opportunities in Spain.

Tass, a former PLO under Arafat, and his wife Karen have been taking the message of peace to Jews (the people he once fought against) and to the Muslims (the brethren he was once willing to die for). In 1996, they began Hope for Ishmael, a ministry dedicated to reconciliation between Arabs and Jews, along with Seeds of Hope, Inc. Because of its dedication to reaching out in love to Muslims, many Iraqis, Filipinos, Palestinians, Americans and Europeans have seen the Gospel in action and their lives have been radically changed.

The Sending Project is about resourcing the local and global sending of the Church by building awareness, community, and collaboration. The Sending Project regularly facilitates one-on-one or small group meetings among pastors and church mission leaders for the purpose of building community and sharing about their church’s mission ministry with each other. You can get involved by going to http://www.thesendingproject.org/get-involved.