Missions Ministry

Mission & Outreach

The mission of Burnt Store Presbyterian Church's Missions Ministry is to respond to His call by reaching out to all people. The Missions Ministry is dedicated to reaching out and helping others locally, nationally and around the world. Assistance is given with “hands on” activities as well as financially to some 30 organizations. Feeding the homeless, --- providing food and clothing to migrant farm workers, --- working with boys in a group foster home, ---delivering food so school kids have something to eat over the weekends, -- ringing the bell and manning a station for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Christmas activity, --- participating in national and international mission efforts --- and building with the Habitat for Humanity -- these are a few of the many opportunities for church members to help some of God’s children who are in need. The following is a list of the local, domestic, and world organizations supported by our church..

The coalition operates a 52 bed general population shelter with a focus on keeping families in distress together. Meals are provided 365 days a year and a food pantry is available for needy families.

Young Life is dedicated to sharing the truth of God’s love with adolescents in middle school, high school, and college.

Teaching farmers around the world how to be more effective in producing enough to meet the needs of their families and communities. 

Remote Area Medical - RAM® is a non-profit org that operates pop-up clinics delivering free, high-quality dental, vision and medical care. Our support is focused on their domestic clinics within the USA.

Twelve local churches, in association with Habitat for Humanity, build one home each year for a qualifying family. We also supply Bibles to new Habitat owners in the area at their dedication.

The Mission of Back Pack Kidz is to feed hungry children one back pack at a time. Many children in Charlotte County do not have a stable source of food except the free or reduced breakfast and lunch provided by the schools. Approximately 24% of children in Charlotte County live below the poverty level. Back Pack Kidz helps bridge this gap in food by providing a backpack filled with nutritious food to over 1500 children for use over the weekends.

This all-volunteer organization devotes 100% of all monies raised to purchase food for children.

Since 2010, Back Pack Kidz has been filling back packs with nutritious, kid-friendly food for Charlotte County’s neediest children. —“Children who eat well, concentrate better and learn faster.”

BSPC, through the Missions Ministry, participates in this activity by contributing both funding $4,000.00 in January 2023, from Missions Ministry Budget Items, and “hands on” assistance. Approximately 120 packages of food are delivered, each week, by BSPC members to two Charlotte County elementary schools. In 2022 the Pack Pack Kidz organization delivered 1500 packages weekly.

During Covid19, food continued to be delivered in plastic bags because children could not bring their back packs back to school. The important thing is that food continued to be delivered.

Food given to children is purchased from U S Foods. Elementary school children receive 16 items of food in a bag. All food is single portion food and does not require refrigeration or cooking.

This faith based mobile outreach program connects with the homeless by bringing them food and providing a connection to local and government services and assistance.

The mission addresses the plight of migrant farm workers in Immokalee. Our church provides meals and food supplies, as well as volunteers who go to Immokalee to package food for distribution to migrant workers' families. A sign up sheet is available in the narthex.

Our church staffs the kettles at one location for 8 hours a day. Some 120 church members serve 2 hour shifts during the holiday season.

This is a group foster home. Boys, between the ages of 12-17 are given the tools they need to become productive and successful in their lives. Click here to for more information about the work of Crossroads Hope Academy to provide stability in the lives of young boys who have been lost in the foster system

An emergency program of the PC(USA) focused on long term recovery for disaster impacted communities. Our church sends teams of workers as needed.

MAF recruits and trains missionary pilots and their families, who provide long term support to missionary families living in remote areas worldwide spreading the word of God. MAF is also first responder to disaster relief, followed by long term support, as in Haiti, Indonesia, and Nepal.

Pastor Leon Dorleans shares the gospel with the people of Haiti through evangelism, education and medical care. We send mission teams to this ministry and individual members sponsor individual children’s education from 3 years old through college.

The only Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in Haiti, whose graduates are transforming health care in Haiti.

Frontier Fellowship works on connecting followers of Jesus to engage the world’s least-reached peoples and places, with the Good News of His Kingdom. BSPC is involved with their work in developing Christian communities in the Mid-East and around the world, most recently in assisting a Christian Seminary in Ukraine.

Supports the efforts of the people of rural Haiti by providing training programs for clean water, agriculture, fish ponds and banking.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Charlotte County) - FCA focuses on serving local communities around the globe by engaging, equipping and empowering coaches and athletes to unite, inspire and change the world through the gospel.

CRU works to help the body of Christ to do evangelism and discipleship in a variety of ways, working with students on campus at colleges across the USA and winning people to faith in Jesus Christ, building them in their faith and sending them on to win and build others. JG and Jenny Porwoll had been our CRU representatives in Russia for about 20 years and are now stateside doing the same work.

ARCHway Institute provides a free service of advocating for thousands of individuals and families impacted by substance abuse disorders. They provide guidance to treatment and recovery resources that are available in our community and nationwide. Click here for more information.

John and Nancy Hook welcome and befriend legal refugees who have been waiting for years to come to the USA by showing and sharing Christ's love through teaching English, gardening, helping them get established, youth summer programs, and more.



Burnt Store Presbyterian Church

11330 Burnt Store Road - Punta Gorda - Florida - 33955
Phone: (941) 639-0001
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Office Hours: Mon - Thurs 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Fri 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday Worship Services: 8:30 AM -Traditional / 10:30 AM - Contemporary

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