As a church, we support, both in prayer and in finances, various workers around the world who teach, supply medical help, care for others, and preach the gospel.  We support a number of different workers from various mission boards around the world and also in Canada.  We support local ministries such as The Annex, Lambton Crisis Pregnancy Centre, and The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches.

Temple Baptist sends a team from our congregation on a short term mission trip every year.  Our Missions Board also supports a number of various church members in diverse short term trips throughout the year.

Missions at Home
Children, youth, and adult ministries each have a winning (outreach) component associated with their ministry. Children’s Salvation Sundays, Alpha, Christmas Hamper Project, Ladies Homemakers Morning Out, Summer Camps, and lots more are regular occurrences at Temple.  Each year dozens of people make professions of faith because of Temple’s ministry.

Missions Beyond
Temple’s first missionaries were sent out to South America in the early 1950s.  Since then, dozens have been sent around the world from the Temple Church family.  Temple supports over thirty missionaries or mission agencies with a significant percentage of the annual budget dedicated to missions support.

Short-Term Missions
One of Temple’s Value statements is ‘Missions Involvement.’  Our hope is many will experience a short-term missions trip as part of their spiritual development.  Annual missions trips have sent teens to seniors to such places as Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Haiti, and France.

Temple Supported Missionaries

The Palmers
Jeff and Naomi Palmer and their three daughters, Eliana, Daniella and Olivia are serving with NTM in Indonesia. Jeff_Palmer@ntm.org


 

 The Hambrey's
 Peter and Cheryl Hambrey are serving in Central Asia at the Center of Hope. They have three grown children who are in Canada working and attending school.
Latest Newsletter - files/templebaptistsarnia/MissionaryLetters/1001-Hambreys.jpg
PandC@eamail.org
 
 

The Borody's
 James and Cindy Borody are working in Niger West Africa with SIM. They are working in Galmi, where James serves in the Galmi hospital and Cindy serves in the Galmi private school and MK school. The Borody's have three grown children living in Canada, working and attending school. jborody@iname.com

The Jank's
Bobby and Sandy Jank are serving in Venezuela with NTM. They have both lived there all their lives. They have 5 children who are working and going to school in North America. Bobby_Jank@ntm.org

The Sutton's
Mike and Beth Sutton and their daughter Megan are serving in Papua New Guinea with NTM at the base in Hoskins. They have three married children living in North America.
Latest NewsLetter - files/templebaptistsarnia/MissionaryLetters/Suttons_jan12.pdf

 

The Taylor's
Art and Dorcas Taylor are serving with Welland Canal Mission. Going on board the ships they leave reading material for the sailors which includes the book Art wrote "Lost at Sea Found in Heaven".  WCMission@Sympatico.ca
 

 

The Margraves'
Jerry and Shirley Margraves are serving in Bolivia with Pioneers. They are involved in the women's jail ministry by taking the children there to their home for daily care.  jerry@vidired.com

The Lorch's
Glen and Loralyn Lorch are serving with Power to Change (Campus Crusade) in Canada and have been doing short-term trips to Australia. loralyn.lorch@crusade.org glen.lorch@crusage.org

Rachel Burkhart
Rachel Burkhart is serving as a bi-vocational missionary in the Yukon with SEND. She serves as a nurse practitioner in the nursing outpost in Ross River and is also involved in missions work in the local church.
Latest Newsletter files/templebaptistsarnia/MissionaryLetters/RachelBurkhart_2010.pdf

 the Annex

The Annex is a local youth drop-in centre here in Sarnia located at 234 Maxwell Street, across from the skatepark.  Ralph Jarvis, the Director, works with a team of volunteer leaders in reaching out to Sarnia's 'at risk' teens.  This includes any youth who is 'at risk' of not knowing Jesus Christ as Savior!  The Annex provides a place for kids to play pool, video games, table tennis, air hockey, etc., and to attend special events like concerts and in finding lasting healthy friendships.  Three times a year the Annex partners with Temple Baptist and the community in holding a Clothing Drive, complete with a free breakfast and other needed household items and Christian books. 

Other Missionary Newsletters

Flemings - Richard & Brenda files/templebaptistsarnia/MissionaryLetters/Flemming%20Prayer%20Letter%20Jan%202010.pdf