People Go to Bed Hungry in Collin County
- In DFW 50% of people live below the poverty line
- 11% of Collin County residents are food insecure
- 4,410 people are experiening homelessness in Dallas and Collin counties
Not knowing when you will have your next meal is an experience faced at least once a year by over 48,000 children in Collin County.
Global Missions
Jesus calls us to reach our local community, our nation, and the rest of the world. We provide many opportunities to serve internationally, from giving, to short-term mission trips, to long-term missionary support.
GO into all the world, representing Christ with every step
GIVE to support the worldwide spread of the Gospel
PARTNER with missionaries that are changing the world
PRAY for all the world to know Christ and prosper
Upcoming Missions Trips
Dominican Republic
Dates: July 1-8
Cost: Approximately $2,400
Focus: Partnership with Dominican & Haitian churches
- Facilitate a basketball camp and mentor youth
- Minister to children at a school for Haitian children
- Work with local leaders in community development
- Meet and pray with pastors
Cuba
Dates: September 2-9
Cost: Approximately $2,100
Focus: Partnership with 2 churches in Cuba
- Come join us as we share Christ with Cubans hungry to hear the gospel for the first time!
- Share your faith
- Worship and minister with Cubans
- Experience and learn Cuban culture
- Pray for those in need
- Encourage the local church
Jamaica (Students)
Dates: November 18-25
Cost: Approximately $1,800
Focus: Strengthen Network of Jamaican Pastors
- Do street evangelism
- Serve at an orphanage
- Youth Crusade
- Assist the local church with Community Development Projects
Kenya
Dates: December 9-17
Cost: Approximately $2,500
Focus: Masai Community Partnership
- See God’s vision for the Masai People
- Experience a day in the life of the Masai people
- Meet with leaders to pray
- Trips include: entrepreneurship training, education, father & son trips, marriage conferences and men and women seminars
Jamaica
For over 10 years, we have been partnering with local churches and pastors in Jamaica, to demonstrate the gospel in word and deed through community outreach initiatives, medical clinics and evangelism. We have also adopted a girl’s home in Montego Bay to where we help girls who have been abused know God’s healing and restorative power!
Latin America
Venture to this Latin American, Caribbean country to share the greatest message of all with hundreds of people! The heart of this ministry is to participate in the long-term goal of reaching every neighborhood in this country by establishing “house churches”. You will be involved in God’s divine appointments as you work alongside local church partners to share the gospel to those who do not know Jesus.
Dominican Republic
Over the last four years One Community Church has adopted a small town called Las Salinas in the Dominican Republic. The people of Las Salinas are made up of Haitians and Dominicans who experience the crushing blow of extreme poverty daily. Most live without running water, bathrooms, electricity and some even go without food and shoes. The need is great!
We have partnered with local government leaders, community leaders and pastors to stop the poverty cycle and to show the love of Christ in tangible ways: build latrines, repair homes, put up street lights and improve sanitation. Come join us as we rebuild lives and reshape community!
What OCC Short-Term Mission Trip attendees are saying
JAMAICA
“Asked how often they pray to God, most said every day. When preparing to close one of the sessions, one young lady asked if she could pray us out. It was such a touching prayer, it gave me chills to hear the earnestness and sincerity of a prayer of praise, thanksgiving and supplication. God is definitely at work in Granville Child Care Facility and it’s clear that they see and receive God’s love from the OCC Granville Mission Team.”
– Brenda Holmes
Latin America
“This mission trip to Latin America was like nothing I could have imagined. I will never forget the love and compassion of the people I met. I felt welcomed in the homes I visited, the warm smiles, and the warmth of the people. To see the concern they had for their neighbor was surreal. I was invited in homes not as a stranger, but as a friend and I was very comfortable in the presence of people I didn’t know. I saw people loving and caring about each other. The people are so beautiful in my eyes.”
– Janice Coutain
DOMINICAN REPLUBIC
“We started the camp Monday and by sometime Tuesday, God revealed to me that this week would be little about basketball, but more about pouring into these boys, showing them gentleness, patience and humility, while at the same time challenging them to be the best young men they could be – not really being better in basketball, but in fearing God, and in being stronger young men in their homes, schools and communities, making wise choices, thinking before acting, etc.”
– Coach Charles Williams
Advance God’s Kingdom With Us
Global Missions
We want to be a church that makes a difference in the world!
Our Global Impact Strategy focuses on two things: sharing the gospel and ministering to the poor.
As Christians we are called by Scripture to be Christ’s witnesses to the utter most parts of the earth (Acts 1:8) and we are compelled to show compassion to the poor (1 John 3:17).
As a church we have committed to furthering the spread of the gospel and caring for the poor in Caribbean and South East Asian countries. We know that we cannot do this unless we encourage and strengthen churches and leaders abroad.
Local Outreach
We are blessed to be a blessing!
God has called each of us to make a difference in our neighborhoods and communities.
We want to be a church that matters to our community.
Come be amazed as you see how our good deeds will lead to goodwill…and goodwill
will create opportunities for the good news to spread!
You can serve as a Life Group or by yourself, with family or friends!
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
In Collin County we are tremendously blessed. Yet we know that there are significant needs in our community. We believe that the Church is the hope of the world. Therefore we have committed to working with our community partners in these 6 Areas of Need:
Women in Crisis
Children in Need
Hunger
Homelessness
Elderly
Veterans
Serving Saturdays
Second & fourth Saturdays we have Serving Saturdays.
We’ll go out in teams to serve the community on all sorts of different projects.
Feeling like you should get involved in opportunities to reflect Jesus’ heart to your local community? Just submit your email address and we’ll follow up with you about Serving Saturdays!
Evangelism Saturdays
First & third Saturdays we have Evangelism Saturdays.
We’ll go out in teams to meet people, introduce them to Jesus, and invite them to church for discipleship
One Community Outreach Ministries
One by 1 (Foster & adoption)
Our adoption and foster care ministry walks parents through the adoption and foster care process, wrap around care and a support group for adoptive and foster parents. Opportunities include: teaching courses, serving families, ministering to other adoptive and foster families
Adopt-a-School Ministry
We aim to create a strategic partnership with neighborhood schools to influence the next generation by equipping kids to live the lives God intended for them. Opportunities to serve include: mentoring, teacher support, parental engagement, and support.
Day with Dad (Prison Ministry)
Project Sixty-One:1 seeks to lead those imprisoned and facing imprisonment to spiritual freedom through pre-trial diversion, the Day with Dad program that keeps kids connected with their fathers, and a reentry partnership to help men and women successfully re-enter society, connect with Jesus, and intentional community. Opportunities include Day with Dad facilitation, mentoring, and spiritual guidance.
Fund OCC Outreach & Mission Work
God gives us good things we don’t deserve and could never earn, like grace and forgiveness. He gave the eternal gift, His son, for our sins (John 3:16) and when a follower of Christ freely and joyfully gives away their increase, whether it be money, possessions, time, or talents, they are imitating God.
You can make an eternal investment into the Kingdom of God by praying for our missionaries and by supporting them.
If you would like to support a short-term mission team or a missionary, please click the GIVE button.