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Independent Christian ChurchMountain Mission SchoolMountain Mission School is a Christ-centered residential school in Grundy, Virginia, serving children through home life,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Mountain Mission School
Mountain Mission School — Organization Profile Mountain Mission School is a privately funded Christ-centered charity that serves as a home, church, and school for children with significant needs. Founded in 1921 in Grundy, Virginia, the school grew from the vision…
Mountain Mission School — Organization Profile Mountain Mission School is a privately funded Christ-centered charity that serves as a home, church, and school for children with significant needs. Founded in 1921 in Grundy, Virginia, the school grew from the vision of Sam Hurley, who wanted to provide a safe place for children facing hardship. Its long-running work combines residential care, Christian formation, and classroom education in one campus community. The school is based in Grundy, Virginia, in Appalachian Southwest Virginia, and it serves children and students from the United States and multiple countries around the world. Mountain Mission School describes its work in terms of “rescuing kids, raising leaders, and reaching nations.” Its student community includes children who have experienced…
Mountain Mission School — Organization Profile
Mountain Mission School is a privately funded Christ-centered charity that serves as a home, church, and school for children with significant needs. Founded in 1921 in Grundy, Virginia, the school grew from the vision of Sam Hurley, who wanted to provide a safe place for children facing hardship. Its long-running work combines residential care, Christian formation, and classroom education in one campus community.
The school is based in Grundy, Virginia, in Appalachian Southwest Virginia, and it serves children and students from the United States and multiple countries around the world. Mountain Mission School describes its work in terms of “rescuing kids, raising leaders, and reaching nations.” Its student community includes children who have experienced poverty, homelessness, family instability, or other difficult circumstances, along with some local students who attend the school.
Mountain Mission School operates with a broad, whole-child approach. Its campus is designed to provide a nurturing home environment, quality education, and spiritual guidance. The school’s educational program serves students from kindergarten through high school, while its residential life program has also been described as serving children “from diapers to diplomas.” This structure allows students to receive daily care, academic instruction, meals, housing, mentoring, and Christian community in one setting.
Academically, Mountain Mission School’s K–12 education program has held joint accreditation through the Association of Christian Schools International and Cognia. The school’s model is not limited to classroom learning; it also includes athletics, music, student activities, and campus life. Its stated focus is on meeting emotional, physical, and spiritual needs while helping students grow in character, responsibility, and leadership.
Mountain Mission School’s work depends heavily on charitable support rather than a conventional tuition-based model. Individuals, churches, alumni, and partner organizations can engage by giving, praying for students and staff, sharing the school’s work with others, volunteering where appropriate, or helping provide practical support for student needs. Prospective families and referring adults can also contact the school directly to learn more about admissions and student placement.
For churches and supporters, Mountain Mission School represents a long-established Christian education and child-care ministry rooted in Appalachia but connected to a wider national and international student body. Its distinctiveness is the integration of residential care, school, and church life for children who need stability, education, and Christian guidance.
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Independent Christian ChurchMission JourneysMission Journeys helps churches and individuals fulfill the Great Commission through mission trips, Global Bible School,…Independent Christian Church · Missions
Mission Journeys
Mission Journeys — Organization Profile Mission Journeys is a Christian mission organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The ministry describes itself as a mission and ministry of non-denominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, with the public theme “Living Out the…
Mission Journeys — Organization Profile Mission Journeys is a Christian mission organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The ministry describes itself as a mission and ministry of non-denominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, with the public theme “Living Out the Great Commission.” Its work includes mission trips, Bible training, long-term missionary support, Appalachian outreach, and leadership development. The organization’s core focus is helping churches and individuals fulfill the Great Commission through evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, mission trips, and support for local, regional, and international mission work. Mission Journeys states that it exists to direct people to Jesus as Lord and Savior, assist churches with leadership and strategic planning, give Christians a heart for missions and the lost, coordinate mission trips…
Mission Journeys — Organization Profile
Mission Journeys is a Christian mission organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The ministry describes itself as a mission and ministry of non-denominational Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, with the public theme “Living Out the Great Commission.” Its work includes mission trips, Bible training, long-term missionary support, Appalachian outreach, and leadership development.
The organization’s core focus is helping churches and individuals fulfill the Great Commission through evangelism, discipleship, leadership development, mission trips, and support for local, regional, and international mission work. Mission Journeys states that it exists to direct people to Jesus as Lord and Savior, assist churches with leadership and strategic planning, give Christians a heart for missions and the lost, coordinate mission trips and projects, and support mission work.
Mission Journeys serves from Lexington, Kentucky, with ongoing ministry efforts in Appalachia and Eastern Kentucky. The organization also has full-time missionaries serving in Belize, Central America, and its Global Bible School outreach is active in the Philippines, Kenya, Guyana, Zambia, Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Pakistan. Its website also highlights work in Guyana, Tanzania, Leyte in the Philippines, and Islamabad, Pakistan.
The ministry began through Teen Mission, USA, which was founded in 1970. Mission Journeys was born after a mission trip to Haiti in 1985 and later became the ministry’s primary working name in 2010. Over time, its short-term teams have helped start congregations, build church buildings, repair children’s homes, schools, and homes for the elderly, assist disaster recovery, preach, teach, baptize, strengthen new Christians, and encourage missionaries.
A distinctive part of Mission Journeys’ current work is combining short-term mission trips with longer-term Bible training and full-time ministry partnerships. Its Global Bible School began in 2005 and has become a major priority, training church leaders and providing Bible study opportunities in multiple countries. The Barnabas Project, launched in 2010, supports year-round ministry in Belize, including work among disadvantaged people and at-risk children from a ministry center near Belmopan.
People can engage with Mission Journeys by giving, praying, joining mission trips, supporting Global Bible School, helping the Appalachian Christmas Project, or contacting the ministry about service opportunities. Current trip opportunities include Eastern Kentucky, Belize, and Guyana, with work such as home repairs, needed distributions, VBS, worship, witnessing, cross-cultural evangelism, discipleship, church planting support, medical clinics, and youth, music, or sports camps.
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Independent Christian ChurchCrossRoads MissionsCrossRoads Missions mobilizes churches and volunteers for hands-on mission trips, construction, disaster recovery, outreach, and ministry…Independent Christian Church · Missions
CrossRoads Missions
CrossRoads Missions — Organization Profile CrossRoads Missions is a Christian missions organization that mobilizes churches, groups, families, and individuals for hands-on service. Its stated mission is mobilizing the Church in meaningful mission and service, with a vision of seeing the…
CrossRoads Missions — Organization Profile CrossRoads Missions is a Christian missions organization that mobilizes churches, groups, families, and individuals for hands-on service. Its stated mission is mobilizing the Church in meaningful mission and service, with a vision of seeing the Church passionately mobilized to fulfill the Great Commission through Christ-centered service. CrossRoads Missions is based in Louisville, Kentucky, and serves communities in the United States and Mexico. Its ministry fields include Louisville, Kentucky; Appalachia in Eastern Kentucky; Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico; New Orleans, Louisiana; and East Tennessee. Since 1993, the organization states that it has mobilized more than 250,000 volunteers and partnered with more than 1,000 churches and organizations in the U.S. and Mexico. The organization’s work combines mission trips,…
CrossRoads Missions — Organization Profile
CrossRoads Missions is a Christian missions organization that mobilizes churches, groups, families, and individuals for hands-on service. Its stated mission is mobilizing the Church in meaningful mission and service, with a vision of seeing the Church passionately mobilized to fulfill the Great Commission through Christ-centered service.
CrossRoads Missions is based in Louisville, Kentucky, and serves communities in the United States and Mexico. Its ministry fields include Louisville, Kentucky; Appalachia in Eastern Kentucky; Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico; New Orleans, Louisiana; and East Tennessee. Since 1993, the organization states that it has mobilized more than 250,000 volunteers and partnered with more than 1,000 churches and organizations in the U.S. and Mexico.
The organization’s work combines mission trips, volunteer service projects, construction, home repair, disaster recovery, immigrant and refugee care, youth outreach, medical missions, education, tutoring, evangelism, and language instruction. CrossRoads Missions emphasizes that service projects are not only intended to meet practical needs, but also to build relationships that create opportunities for discipleship and ongoing spiritual care through local churches and ministry partners.
CrossRoads Missions operates through field-based programs and local partnerships. ServeLouisville works with churches, nonprofits, veterans’ ministries, families, and community advocates through construction, outreach, service projects, and community development. In Appalachia, the ministry partners with local churches, community centers, schools, and organizations in Eastern Kentucky through home repairs, cookouts, game nights, outreach, and community relationship-building.
In Piedras Negras, Mexico, CrossRoads Missions supports construction projects, affordable home ownership, education, immigrant care, outreach programs, and ministry in the Piedra Angular neighborhood. Help Build Hope brings construction projects to churches, businesses, schools, conventions, and organizations across the United States, where volunteers frame walls for affordable homes in partnership with housing organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and Fuller Center-related partners.
People can engage with CrossRoads Missions by registering for mission trips, joining one-day or multi-day volunteer opportunities, serving through Help Build Hope, applying for internships, giving financially, supporting staff, promoting mission opportunities, praying for field ministries, or partnering as a church or organization. Donations may be made online, and general inquiries are handled through the Louisville office.
