Lebanon Presbyterian Church is a mission-driven church that provides many opportunities to serve abroad and here at home. As a mission-driven church, a significant portion of our budget is devoted to worldwide evangelism, disaster relief, medical care, and education of both youth and pastors.
In Kenya, in east Africa, LPC has worked for many years with Solomon and Alice, in sports ministry, agriculture, and construction. Several years ago, LPC purchased 10 acres of land to build a well in Illmamen and now we are in the midst of building a school complex, which currently has over 100 students. In N’gundu, an LPC hospital now serves as an eye clinic. In west Africa, we built a well with the DOXY project and in another area, we have given support to school children through Project Mercy.
Currently we support missionaries and programs in Europe that minister to North Africa, Ukraine, and within the continent. Programs focus on a variety of issues including orphans, refugees, and sending the Gospel to unreached people groups.
Our longest ongoing project has been in the Yucatan Peninsula, where we have worked since 1943. We have built Presbyterian churches and supported local pastors ministering to the Maya indigenous people. Supporting education, medical needs, evangelism, and poverty eradication, hundreds of adults and youth from LPC have become better disciples through our short term trips to the region. We have also sustained pastors from various areas, such as Mexico, Cuba, and Argentina as they continue their seminary education.
Over many years, we have supported programs from various areas, such as Mongolia, Siberia, Afghanistan, and Cambodia through evangelism, education, and medical needs. Partnering with India Gospel League, we support the Barefoot Pastors and Adopt a Village programs. After the evacuation of Afghanistan, we adopted two families to help with their relocation, education, and language needs.
This webpage is just a snapshot of our mission program in an everchanging and complex world. Some of the organizations which we regularly have supported include Samaritan’s Purse, Matthew 25 Ministries, ECHO to train agricultural workers, Global Lead to train youth pastors, and International Justice Mission, which helps free enslaved factory and sex workers from bondage.
We have two sister EPC church partners, 5 Point 7 Church in Detroit MI and Genesis Church in Mercedes, TX, both located in underserved areas. Our youth programs serve a week each summer in churches or community programs like these. We have served in such places as Chicago, Philadelphia, the Tennessee mountains, and the Yakama Reservation in Washington state.
Disaster trips as far away as Louisiana, Mississippi, and south Florida, and as near as Dayton, Eastern Kentucky, and Indiana have provided much needed help after hurricanes, floods and tornados. At home, we have built children’s beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace, and our quilters have made dozens of quilts for SHP and Family Promise.
Formerly known as Interfaith Hospitality Network, Family Promise provides shelter and food for families regaining their self-sufficiency. LPC has been a part of this ministry since its inception and regularly hosts parents and children on a revolving basis.
LPC provides a free meal every Monday night at the Soul Food Café, also known as Fellowship Hall, in the church’s lower level. LPC is a founding partner in the Lebanon Food Pantry, which serves people in the Lebanon school district.
LPC regularly offers encouragement and discipleship through local programs. Joshua’s Place mentors kids in the Lebanon area with tutoring, school supplies, and hunger issues. For older youth, we sponsor Young Life and our own Encounter program. Love Packages and UNTO spread love, Christian books, Bibles, and needed items around the world. Gideon’s provides New Testaments and Bibles to students, the military, and hotel rooms. KAIROS enters Ohio prisons, including our two local ones, for a retreat weekend and follow-up mentorship.
We have many opportunities, both big and small. Our feeding ministry is always looking for volunteers to cook meals or make desserts. We also need volunteers to prepare meals and provide support for Family Promise, a local nonprofit that assists families experiencing homelessness. We welcome workers, skilled and unskilled, after national or local disasters, to help rebuild. When the need arises, we post these opportunities and more in our weekly emails and communicate to the congregation during our Sunday services. The LPC Mission Committee tries to engage every member in a mission with events throughout the year. If you would like to be contacted or would like more information, please click on the button below. Not only do these opportunities help others, but they create times of fellowship and lifelong friendships. We thank everyone for their gifts of time, talent, and donations that further the mission of Jesus Christ.