Missions
"Missions" at First United Presbyterian Church means giving our time and our resources to better the lives of those in need in our community and our world.
In 2003, H.O.P.E. for the Heartland, an Interdenominational Christian outreach program, sponsored jointly by our church and Brave Heart Ministries was founded. H.O.P.E. provides spiritual and social development activities for youth and adults while bringing hope to rural Iowans in need of assistance.
The camp is located on a 144 acre tree farm amid the rolling hills and timber of the English River Valley southwest of Williamsburg, Iowa.
The youth of the our church (along with adults) participate each summer in Mountain T.O.P., an Interdenominational Christian Mission, dedicated to rural life ministry in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Specifically, Mountain T.O.P. seeks to empower those it serves through a philosophy of partnership. Helping to enable the staff, camp participants, and Cumberland Mountain families to realize their potential and their responsibilty as God's servants can address the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs. Mountain T.O.P. is concerned with achieving immediate results through direct social service programming and serves only those who have expressed a need. While striving to serve as a "faith-in-action" classroom, participants are encouraged to serve those who express needs in their own hometowns.