Missions Is Local
We have a long history of local missions involvement that we continue to uphold today. We support many local missional organizations both financially and through service. Here is a list of different local organizations we support and how you can be involved in serving with them!
ETFB Monthly Food Distribution
The East Texas Food Bank drops of fresh produce the 4th Wednesday of every month from 9-10:30am serving all Anderson county residents. Volunteers arrive by 8:00am to pack bags of produce and to load cars at 9:00am.
First Resource Center
First Resource Center is a food pantry serving the residents of Anderson County, Texas. Serve by assisting clients with food needs, being a driver for food pickups, and unloading/sorting food.
Hope Station
Hope Station is dedicated to fighting poverty and supporting those in need within our community. We have been given the tools to help individuals rise and live freely. Our mission is to provide hope and reveal the gospel of Christ Jesus. Volunteers can help with job training and financial education, serving at the Thrift Store, and sorting clothing donations.
Hospitality House
The Hospitality House provides overnight lodging for families of prison inmates. Volunteers can serve here by cooking/eating a meal with residents and developing relationships, or by adopting a room to pray for.
Living Alternatives
Living Alternatives provides pregnancy counseling, sonograms, and more. Volunteers can help provide mentoring to clients.
Refuge of Light
Refuge of Light is a safe home that provides physical, mental, and spiritual healing of sex trafficked 18-21 year old women. Serve by eating a meal with residents and developing relationships and training residents with personal and professional skills.
Rock Bottom Ranch
Rock Bottom Ranch is a transitional home for women to break free from the bondage of addiction and find freedom in Christ. Serve by eating a meal with residents and developing relationships or training residents with personal and professional skills.
Stock Pot
The Stock Pot serves daily meals to homeless and hungry here in Palestine. We send volunteers to serve meals, clean the kitchen and food pantry, and sort/stock food!
Missions Is Areawide and Statewide
FBCP partners with other churches in the Dogwood Trails Baptist Association (DTBA), made up of churches in Anderson, Henderson, and Cherokee county. Cedar Creek Community Church (C4) was planted in the lake community of Payne springs, near Eustace and Gun Barrel City.
We recently formed a new partnership with First Baptist Church in Matagorda, TX. We will be doing construction projects, VBS, Sports Camps, and other missions-ministry efforts over the next several years. Some DTBA churches are beginning to work with us in the Matagorda area. This mission trip is ideal for families to get involved. As parents lead, their kids can be a part of VBS and developing relationships with local kids.
July 2026 Matagorda Video:
https://fbcpalestine.subspla.sh/fgnsct3
FBCP is part of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which has over 5,300 churches. This state convention combines the efforts of our churches in sharing the Gospel, church planting, church revitalization, and missions. The goal is to send multiple teams throughout the year. Watch for details of upcoming trips!
We recently formed a new partnership with First Baptist Church in Matagorda, TX. We will be doing construction projects, VBS, Sports Camps, and other missions-ministry efforts over the next several years. Some DTBA churches are beginning to work with us in the Matagorda area. This mission trip is ideal for families to get involved. As parents lead, their kids can be a part of VBS and developing relationships with local kids.
July 2026 Matagorda Video:
https://fbcpalestine.subspla.sh/fgnsct3
FBCP is part of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, which has over 5,300 churches. This state convention combines the efforts of our churches in sharing the Gospel, church planting, church revitalization, and missions. The goal is to send multiple teams throughout the year. Watch for details of upcoming trips!
Missions Is National
FBCP is currently supporting a church in southeast Iowa. This helps with evangelism supplies and outreach to the people of Centerville, Iowa.
We are setting up a domestic trip Fall 2027. Stay turned for more details!
We are setting up a domestic trip Fall 2027. Stay turned for more details!
Missions is International
FBCP will be heading to Henderson, Canada (suburb of Toronto) June 19-25, 2027. Info Meeting August 16, 2026 in the Sanctuary, immediately following the 2nd Service. For more info, click on the link: https://www.sendrelief.org/ministry-center/toronto-ministry-center/
FBCP is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, made up of over 50,000 churches across the globe. We support missionaries both nationally and internationally in efforts of sharing Christ and making disciples.
We are currently supporting John and Sarah Fuller who are a part of the International Sports Federation, a missions group that puts on sports camps around the world and shares the Gospel. If you are interested in going on one of these trips, please see our Associate Pastor of Missions Dan Tice and he will put you in touch with the Fullers.
FBCP is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, made up of over 50,000 churches across the globe. We support missionaries both nationally and internationally in efforts of sharing Christ and making disciples.
We are currently supporting John and Sarah Fuller who are a part of the International Sports Federation, a missions group that puts on sports camps around the world and shares the Gospel. If you are interested in going on one of these trips, please see our Associate Pastor of Missions Dan Tice and he will put you in touch with the Fullers.