We believe that we are called to be involved in meeting the spiritual and physical needs of those outside our church walls. In Acts 1:8 the Apostle Paul writes "But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power and will tell people about me everywhere-in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
LOCAL
Alpha Center - Fleet for little feet
Alpha Center’s Fleet for Little Feet is a mobile pregnancy care bus. The bus travels all over South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota, reaching rural areas to help women who, for various reasons, are not able to travel to Sioux Falls. The bus has made several trips to Planned Parenthood clinics, offering free ultrasounds to Planned Parenthood clients. The ultrasounds give women the first glimpses of their unborn babies. On-board counselors offer true and factual information about abortion and alternatives, helping women understand all the options available for them and their child. Typically, 87 percent of abortion-bound women will change their minds and decide not to abort their babies, after seeing the little babies, vibrant and very alive, on ultrasound.
Click here to learn more about the Alpha Center.
Call to Freedom
Our vision is to create a cohesive community model of care and support for victims, bringing communities together while educating and advocating to stop human trafficking.
Call to Freedom provides supportive services for victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. By creating a strong network of frontline providers who offer safe housing, mental health counseling, medical assistance, chemical dependency, transportation and other supportive services.
For more information about Call to Freedom, click here.
Center of Hope
Center of Hope encourages and mentors people with the hope of redemption through Jesus Christ. Our focus is holistically addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of individuals that can only come through creating relationship and accountability. They work in partnership with community organizations to engage in a consistent and positive interaction with guests.
Whether its a temporary situation, life transition, or a long-term struggle with poverty, addiction, or mental health issues, the Center of Hope is committed to sharing the Love of Christ in tangible ways to our guests. The specific ways that we do this are varied, but mainly we are providing information about programs and organizations; low cost bicycles to qualifying families and individuals for transportation and recreation; phones for local and long distance calls; computers for job search and applications; winter clothing and work-wear; faith-based nursing care; pastoral care; and Bible studies for men and women. Each guest is treated with kindness and compassion in an effort to show them Christ's love in deed and word, ultimately for their good and for God's glory.
For more information about Center of Hope, click here.
Feeding SD
Feeding SD is a hunger relief organization fighting daily to eliminate hunger in South Dakota. Every single week, Feeding South Dakota assists in providing temporary food assistance to approximately 21,000 hungry individuals and families in our state, and our BackPack Program gives food every weekend to over 5,500 kids who otherwise might go hungry.
Once a month, Feeding SD has a food distribution right here at Good News! Sign up to serve today!
More information about Feeding SD can be found here!
Nightwatch Canteen
Nightwatch Canteen is a mobile mission serving meals to those in need. Good News Church, along with other churches in Sioux Falls provide an evening meal at Hayward Elementary School. About 95% of the meals served are to children and families who live in the Hayward Elementary area. Good News Church serves the second Monday of each month. If you would like to learn more about how you can serve, contact the church office.
State
Inspiration Hills
Inspiration Hills' mission is to provide an environment for the individual to come to know and grow in Christ and be challenged for life in God's Kingdom. The Vision of the Board is to be a uniting presence for the churches of all denominations (especially for the RCA and CRC) to collaborate in kingdom work. The vision includes providing opportunities for leadership training, pastor and family care, discipleship training, spiritual retreats and other opportunities in response to local needs.
USA
Missionary Amber Booth, Argentine Neighborhood in Kansas City
Amber Booth, a member of Good News Church, is involved with YouthFront Missions in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City. Argentine is an ethnically-diverse neighborhood that is mostly Hispanic. It's a working-class kinds of neighborhood with many young families and immigrants from Mexico. Argentine has a lot going for it with new efforts at revitalization that are helping to change it for the better, but like many under-resourced urban neighborhoods, it has familiar problems of racial divisions and blight.
Amber Booth
Assistant Director, Justice Initiatives
World
mission haiti
Mission Haiti's vision is to always be a ministry that glorified Jesus Christ is all they do. Mission Haiti wants to provide people with the opportunity to fulfill the command God has given in Matthew 10:7: "As you go, preach this message, the kingdom of heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give."
Their desire is to reach the people of Haiti one village at a time for the glory of the Lord.
For more information about Mission Haiti, click here.
Touch of hope haiti
Touch of Hope Haiti is working to see families strengthened in Haiti. They do this through their three core values:
Education: They provide free education to the children of our community; we believe every child deserves access to education.
Orphan Care: We care to the needs of the thirty-two children living at Tytoo Gargens Orphanage, with the hopes to one day see them reunited with family.
Job Creation: We believe families are meant to be together, so we strengthen and equip them through our Starfish Program and provide jobs at Rosie's.
For more information about Touch of Hope Haiti, click here.