Missions

Our City

Christ United is more than an audience. We are called to meet the felt needs right here in the Jackson area. Whether it is your prayers, your time, your energy, or your resources, it can make a difference in how we serve our city. Learn how you can offer real compassion and generosity to the Jackson area by getting involved with our local missions! Be the hands and feet of Jesus with us and celebrate what God is doing right here in our city!

For questions, please email us at [email protected].

SERVE WITH US

CHRIST UNITED FOOD PANTRY

A community-focused ministry that collects and stores food to supply monthly food boxes to the members of our community in need.

DRIVE-THRU HOURS: 2ND THURSDAYS | 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Enter at the South Entrance. Join the drive-thru line. Receive a food box. Exit or receive prayer.

What to Know Before You Come
- Our food pantry is a drive-thru format.
- Food distributions take place on a first-come, first-served basis and are while supplies last.
- Each household receives an assortment of shelf-stable foods.
- We welcome anyone in need of food assistance to join us – no identification or requirements needed.
Ways You Can Help
WAYS YOU CAN HELP THIS MINISTRY

Donate

The following items are always needed:
- Tuna
- Canned Pasta – Ravioli, etc.
- Canned Vegetables – Corn, Green Beans, etc.
- Peanut Butter & Jelly
- Spaghetti
- Tomato/Spaghetti Sauce
- Ramen Noodles
- Rice (32oz bags)
Serve
2ND THURSDAYS | Arrive at 5:30 pm and leave at 7:30 pm (or if food runs out)
Serve Teams will be welcoming, serving, and loving people with food boxes and prayers.
Just find your spot:
- Welcome Team
- Food Crew
- Prayer Team

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Ministries we partner with

The Connection Kids

Wednesday Nights | 5:15-6:30 pm | Holmes Community College Student Union

Focusing on the next generation between the ages of 5-18 in the Northeast Jackson/Ridgeland area. Hoping to spread the love of Jesus by establishing relationships and creating safe spaces for kids to be kids and see who Jesus is.

Mentor/ Lead a Small Group
Provide a Meal for the Kids – Click HERE for the Meal Sign-Up List
McLeod Elementary
Ready Reader Program

Tues, Wed, & Thurs | 8:30 am OR 9:30 am | McLeod Elementary School

Inspiring preschoolers and kindergarten children in our city to love books! We help our students gain the skills necessary to successfully pass their 3rd grade reading exam and continue to build their success. Trained, passionate volunteers read with the children each week for an hour.
Stewpot

Select Saturdays | 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | StewPot Community Services

Giving food to vulnerable people to help them during difficult times in their lives. StewPot also has a grocery store that is open every weekday from 9:30am –11:00am that provides a four-day supply of food to individuals and families.
Donations of non-perishable food items are needed year-round.

Mustard Seed

Meeting the spiritual, physical, emotional, and intellectual needs of adults (called the “Seedsters”) with developmental disabilities.

On the 1st Wednesday of every month at 2:30pm, Mustard Seed sponsors a “Birthday Bash for the Seedsters”. Other ways to be involved include sending cards and notes to the staff for encouragement, helping in the ceramic shop or landscaping and supporting other events as needed.
Susanna Stitchers
Meals on Wheels

Sharing the love of Jesus by preparing and delivering good, nutritious, hot meals to the elderly in Jackson. We partner with multiple churches in our surrounding area to keep this mission running.

Preparing three monthly meals and delivering them on the 2nd Thursday, 4th Wednesday, and 4th Thursday of each month. Each delivery has a driver and rider that helps provide support on each route.
Hope House

Providing a home away from home for the seriously ill and their families who come to Jackson for outpatient treatment. Mainly supported on the compassionate people who freely offer their generosity.

4th Tuesday of every month, we provide and serve meals for residents and guests.
Carpentry and landscaping duties to make the residents feel like they are right at home.

Our World

Our church works with missionaries and churches around the world for the advancement of God’s kingdom. There are places around the world where there is little or no head and heart knowledge of Jesus. If it matters to God that there are disciples of Jesus in all nations, then it should matter to us! So, we will continue to send our people on short-term mission trips and support missionaries who make Jesus known globally!

Short-Term Mission Trips

God uses ordinary people in extraordinary ways to bring the hope of Jesus and change lives around the world. Check out how a week in another country can bless you and bless lives for the sake of the Gospel!

COSTA RICA

We’re So excited about our July 2025 Trip!
July 12-19, 2025
Rice & Beans Ministries | Alajuela, Costa Rica
For more information, please email [email protected].

To pray for the group on their journey, CLICK HERE!

Missionaries

God has called so many to take the Gospel of Jesus to parts of the world who do not know him, yet. Join us supporting what God is doing through them by keeping up with their newsletters, writing letters of encouragement, and financially supporting them through their sending organization. But above all else, go to God and pray on their behalf!

Fred Curry – Rice & Beans Ministries – Costa Rica
Pastor Sergio – Living Missions – Peru
Allie Mellon – Hard Places Community – Cambodia
Sammy Mwai – The Bridge Street Kids – Kenya
Greg & Shirley Carlson – One Mission Society – South America

Many other International Partners serve in closed countries therefore we do not publish their information on the internet. Please contact Missions Director, Neal Gowdy if you wish to know more about these Mission Partners.