Missions & Outreach

Martins Creek places a strong emphasis on Missions and Outreach. Over 1/4 of our annual budget goes toward local and global ministries.

Some of the ministries we support and help facilitate are listed below.

Homes of Hope
A Transitional Housing Ministry

Martins Creek provides temporary housing to individuals/families who may be homeless or going through a financial crisis, so they can transition to a place of financial stability. While staying in this home, they will be connected with a Love INC mentor who will meet weekly with them, setting financial goals that will help get them back on their feet again.

For more information, or if you would like to give toward this amazing initiative to fight poverty, please contact Jay Conn at jay@mcmc.org

Fresh Start

Fresh Start is a Love INC ministry hosted at Martins Creek. Trained individuals from Love INC walk along side of individuals/families in the community weekly as they set goals, and take needed steps to get out of a financial crisis. Classes are offered every week that help tackle issues that burden families, as well as a Faith and Finance Course that will be offered seasonally for 12 weeks. Childcare is provided. For more information about participating or volunteering for this ministry, contact the Love INC office at 330.473.6017 and ask to talk with Vicki.

Mongolia

Through Mennonite Mission Network, a partnership of churches and individuals in eastern Ohio, including Martins Creek, has supported missionaries in Mongolia for the past 30 years.
More information can be found at hhttp://www.mennonitemission.net/OURWORK/LOCATIONS/Pages/Mongolia.aspx.

Flower of Hope Outreach

Flower of Hope Outreach is a non-profit organization which provides financial, relational, and spiritual support to the Flower of Hope School in the central plateau of Haiti. Started by a group of women at Martins Creek, the outreach has grown in size and scope and finds support from all over the United States. More information can be found at http://www.flowerofhopeoutreach.org/

South Sudan

Lynn and Sharon Kandel: Lynn works in logistical support, helping to provide accommodations, water, and electricity for mission co-workers serving in extremely challenging conditions of South Sudan. Sharon works with a project that seeks to increase access to a basic, effective Christian education for children in the targeted areas of Jonglei and Upper Nile States. For more information visit http://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/missionconnections/lynn-and-sharon-kandel/

Lighthouse Ministries

Lighthouse Ministries strives to walk alongside the youth in our Southeast Canton community by offering safe, high-quality, and holistic opportunities to assist them in understanding their God-given giftedness and potential for impacting the world around them.
For more information visit http://www.cantonlighthouse.org/

Love INC of Greater Holmes County

Love In the Name of Christ connects families in need to local church ministries, volunteers and community agencies. Martins Creek joins about 40 other local churches in being the hands and feet of Jesus to families here in Holmes County! For more information call the Love INC office @ 330.473.6017 or visit their website: loveincofghc@gmail.com

MMS Aviation

The Maust Family is currently stationed in North Carolina while Jason Maust is being trained to be a missionary pilot through MMS Aviation. For more information visit MaustsUnderHisWings.com

Luke and Tricia Turley

Luke and Tricia are involved with campus Ministry through CHICAGOXA, where they minister to the students of Loyola University in Chicago Illinois. For more information visit lturley@chicagoxa.org

Timothy's Gift

Timothy's Gift is an innovative prison ministry that brings professional Christian artists into the prison system. It was started by former Martins Creek member, Ron Miller, and ministers to prisons in Ohio, Florida and Arkansas. For more information visit timothysgift.com

YWAM France

Marc and Edith Hochstetler are directors of the YWAM base in Saint Paul Trois Chateaux, France, where they disciple young adults to become missionaries all around the world.

CAMO

Central American Medical Outreach provides medical care in the poorest of regions in Central America. For more information visit camo.org

Mennonite Disaster Service

MDS provides relief to areas in the United States devastated by natural disasters. For more information visit mds.mennonite.net

Toward the Goal Ministries

Toward the Goal Ministries provides mentoring, coaching and servant leadership training in Holmes and Tuscarawas County. They are also involved with ministries that bring awareness to human trafficking. For more information visit towardthegoal.net

Love Center

The Love Center Food Pantry provides free food for families in Holmes County. They are located just outside of Millersburg on SR 241. and are open Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. For more information visit lovecenterholmescounty.org