Missions · Reaching the World for Christ

Lancaster Presbyterian Church is fully committed to seeing the Gospel spread throughout the world. Listed below are many of the missions that LPC supports. Just click on the highlighted link to visit the mission's website.

If you would like more information about our missionaries, or are seeking support as a missionary, please contact us.

with speaker, Pastor Emory Brown

This weekend is designed to allow participants to gain a better understanding of current mission work

 being done around the world and to meet some missionaries face to face! 

Pastor Emory Brown, 

 will lead a series of messages during the weekend

 focusing on what the Bible says about evangelism and how that relates to mission work. 

The weekend includes times designated for participants to browse table displays of various missionaries

 and ask questions about their work, as well as times of worship through music and prayer.

This is a free event and registration is not required. 

Participants are welcome to attend one part, a few parts, or all of the conference!

Sign up to attend the annual HARVEST DINNER (Rwandan/Burundian Style) taking place Saturday, November 8th at 6:00pm. Reservations are requested. Please call the church office if you would like to attend.

SOUP SUNDAY LUNCHEON with our missionaries - Sunday, November 9th at 12:00pm.  Sign up to help provide, soup, bread & desserts!

Mission Conference Schedule

Friday, November 7th

7:00pm – 7:30pm Reception of Missionaries  Enjoy refreshments during an informal time to meet and greet some of the missionaries, gather more information and ask questions about their ministries.

Location: Waith Fellowship Hall

7:30pm – 9:00pm Missionary Presentation

 Session #1: The Cultural Mandate Genesis 1:26-28

The session will also include a missionary presentation, a message from our keynote speaker and worship through music and prayer, as well as a testimony from another participating missionary.

Location: Main Sanctuary

Saturday, November 8th

9:00am – Continental Breakfast & Missionary Presentations  A time together with our missionaries while enjoying breakfast, refreshments, and coffee.  

Location: Waith Fellowship Hall

9:30am – 9:40am Worship

9:45am – 12:35pm Missionary Presentations  Our missionaries will take time to present their ministries, answer questions and share how God is working locally and around the world. The unique ministry positions and backgrounds of these missionaries are sure to inspire you to find your sphere of influence to bring others to Christ!

Location: Waith Fellowship Hall

6:00pm – 7:00pm Harvest Dinner

The entire congregation is invited to gather together for a delicious, homemade dinner & desserts.                 

Reservations requested (call the church office).

Location: Waith Fellowship Hall

7:30pm – 9:00pm Missionary Presentation

Session #2: The Universal Mandate Genesis 12:1-3

Following a missionary presentation our keynote speaker Pastor Emory Brown will give the second of the weekend's messages. The session will also include worship through music and prayer, as well as a testimony from another participating missionary.

Location: Main Sanctuary

Sunday, November 9th

9:30am – 10:30am Session #3: The Body Mandate Matthew 28:18-20

Pastor Emory Brown will bring the third message in the weekend series during the sermon portion of the weekly Worship Service. Regular service elements will also be included during this time, as well as a testimony from another participating missionary.

Location: Main Sanctuary

11:00am – 12:00pm Missionary Presentations @ Adult Education & Sunday School

Location: Various Sunday School Classrooms 

12:00pm – Soup Sunday with Missionaries  Talk with the missionaries and get to know them better or socialize with others from the congregation during our Soup Sunday luncheon. After Sunday school, choose from a delicious variety of homemade soups. At 1pm the big screen will feature the Bills game for anyone interested in staying.

Location: Waith Fellowship Hall

Missions We help Support

Buffalo City Mission: Serving the homeless and hurting men, women and children of Western New York.

CompassCare: Provides women with compassionate care, relevant information, and professional medical services concerning unplanned pregnancy and sexual health needs.

Cross Training Athletics: Encouraging, Empowering and Equipping athletes, coaches and athletic directors in building a character culture.

EPC World Outreach: World Outreach (WO) is the mission sending agency of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Our principal calling is to glorify God by starting church-planting movements among least-reached people groups, especially among Muslims.

Global Outreach International: Exists to form a family of career missionaries, short-term volunteers, support personnel, and partners united to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ, undergird the international indigenous church, and offer help to a hurting humanity.

Harvest House: Serving more than 14,000 people in WNY every year, regardless of race, religion or culture, through four service ministries; Baby & Children's Ministry, Good Neighbors Health Care, New Hope Education Center, and Retreat & Spirituality Center,  within two locations. 

International Association for Refugees: Helping people survive and recover from forced displacement.

International Students, Inc. Buffalo: As a Christian organization, ISI serves international students as a way of sharing Christ's love, in obedience to Christ's command to love your neighbor as yourself.

Karios Prison Ministy: They share the transforming  love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ to impact the hearts and lives of  incarcerated men, women and youth, as well as their families, to become loving  and productive citizens of their communities.

PATH: People Against Trafficking Humans is a faith based not-for-profit organization with a mission to end human trafficking through education, prevention and restoration. 

Reformed Evangelistic Fellowship: REF is a faith-based mission whose purpose is to practice, train and equip God’s people to engage in evangelistic efforts and personal witness with anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Serge:  Their work consists of sending and caring for missionaries, mentoring and discipling ministry leaders around the world, and developing gospel-centered resources for on-going gospel renewal.

United World Mission: They equip leaders, establish churches, and engage in holistic ministry by partnering with the church globally.

Urban Christian Ministries: A non-profit, tax exempt, non-denominational Christian home missionary organization committed to serving youth and their families in the inner city of Buffalo.