Local Missions
- Shining Stars Pre-School Ministry
- Celebrate Recovery (anyone with a hurt, habit, or hangup)
- Oak Mountain Missions (Food Pantry, Clothes, Housewares, etc.)
- Hargis Christian Camp
- SCSO Law Enforcement Chaplains Initiative
- Assistance to Local Schools (Sip & Sob, Classroom Sponsor, etc.)
- Pastor Discretionary account to serve locals with various needs
- Annual “Yard Sale” for missions with free clothes, shoes, and accessories
- Seasonal Outreach (Easter Basket Drive for OMM, Community Egg Hunt, Fall Outreach Event, VBS)
Regional Missions
- Project Healing Waters (Veterans Fly-Fishing Ministry)
- Blanket Fort Hope (Home and Counseling for child trafficking surivors)
- Community of Hope Mobile Clinic (Free Health Screenings & Care)
- Life on Wheels (Free Ultrasound & Pre-Natal Care)
- King’s Home
- Embrace Alabama Kids (formerly UM Children’s Home)
- Safehouse (Domestic and Sexual Violence Response)
- Hearts & Hands (critical handyman home repairs)
International Missions
- Eyes Wide Open Ministries (Guatemala)
- Church Planting Initiative Pastor Training Events (Guatemala)
- Special Needs Children’s Hospital (El Moral Village of Guatemala)
- Two Church Plants in Zambia (current plant with Siwowa Tonga)
- Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan’s Purse)
- Gospelink International Bible College of Zambia (Africa)
- Sister Annual Conference Initiative with the Nigerian AC (GMC)
- SOZO Missions (Uganda)
- Scholarship Initiative with The Jerusalem Seminary (Israel)
- Construction of Church and School in Mozambique (2003)
Team Guatemala
Morningstar Methodist Church has been active in Guatemala since 2013. Pastor Mark has assisted in training over 65 pastors and has led teams to assist in feeding ministry, prayer ministry, hospital ministry, school ministry, wood stove ministry, and praying for and witnessing to all those in need. Pastor Mark continues to lead training seminars for the pastors there each Fall. Our most recent endeavor has helped establish a hospital for special needs children in a village near Chiquimula.
Team Guatemala trips are coordinated with Eyes Wide Open Ministries in Chiquimula, Guatemala. Morningstar actively supports this ministry. For more information on Eyes Wide Open please visit their website at eyeswideopenministries.com or their Facebook page at facebook.com/ewoministries.
Team Guatemala trips are coordinated with Eyes Wide Open Ministries in Chiquimula, Guatemala. Morningstar actively supports this ministry. For more information on Eyes Wide Open please visit their website at eyeswideopenministries.com or their Facebook page at facebook.com/ewoministries.
Zambia - Pastor Siwowa Tonga
Morningstar is now planting their second “New Church Start” in Zambia in partnership with Gospelink ministries. Our planting pastor partner is Pastor Siwowa Tonga. Zambia is in the southern part of Africa with an estimated population of more than 17 million people. It is home to many different groups speaking more than 72 languages/dialects. Pastor Siwowa is in mission to a remote village where people are hungry for the Word of God.
For more information on Gospelink please visit their website at gospelink.org