Global Outreach
Short-Term Missions
Global Welcome Ministry
Concern for the Poor
Missionary Support
Upcoming Events
Ghana Missions Info Meeting
Sunday | June 1 | 11:45AM | Chapel
Learn more about our upcoming trips or find application link below.
Short-Term Missions
UGANDA 2025
July 30-August 11 (tentative)
We will be sending a team of Woodlanders to Bukeka, Uganda to continue our partnership with Global Hands of Hope by helping construct and set up playground equipment, interacting with the children of Suubi Christian School and learning about their child sponsorship program. We will also be able to love on our own missionaries, Phil and Teri Barker, who have been in the field since last November.
Applications are now closed for this trip.
LONDON 2025
October 23-November 3
We’re sending a team to London this fall to partner with Doug and Rachel Allord, who are supported missionaries working with a network of churches in London. This team will support a variety of their ministries, including hosting a “kids club” (similar to VBS) for neighborhood students who will be on fall break during that week.
Applications are now closed for this trip.
Ghana 2025
October 29-November 8
This is a Compassion International partnership where we will be visiting and serving at the four Ghana Child Development Centers Woodlands partners with and have an opportunity to meet children that our congregation sponsors through Compassion. Curious about this trip? Email Vicki@woodlandschurch.org.
Guatemala 2026 - Medical Missions
January 10-17th
We are planning a medical mission trip to offer medical services to Guatemala, while partnering with a church to share the gospel. This type of trip has a different application process. Learn more below.
Learn More
We have had the privilege to offer medical services to poverty stricken areas of the world while partnering with pastors and churches to share the gospel with unchurched people over the years. From 2007 through 2025 Woodlands has sponsored over 25 medical mission trips to Central and South America, our most recent being to San Juan Sacatapequez, Guatemala in January of 2025. Below are documents that will give you insight into these trips. If you have any questions about the most recent trip to Guatemala, or would like to receive information about upcoming trips, contact Vicki at vicki@woodlandschurch.org.
Bolivia 2026
February 5-12
This will be a Compassion International partnership trip where we will be serving at a Bolivian Child Develpmental Center and will get an opportunity to meet children that our congregation sponsors through Compassion.
Global Welcome Ministry
SERVING New International Neighbors
The Global Welcome Ministry serves international communities in Central Wisconsin by being a welcoming and hospitable body of Christ-followers to those from different language and cultural backgrounds. We look to resource and provide opportunities to do just that in and around Central Wisconsin.
SERVING REFUGEES
We are taking steps as a church to help the refugees who are in Wisconsin and we would love to have you join us.
Concern for the Poor
We have a growing commitment to find practical ways to join with organizations and churches around the world that work and minister among the physically as well as the spiritually needy people of the world.
Learn More
We have found that one of the best ways to help the poor is through organizations that have a long track record of successfully helping people who live in poverty all over the world. It is also helpful to choose a practical, regular, hands on way to do that.
We recommend that you consider sponsoring a child in need through Compassion International. Woodlands has established partnerships with Child Development Centers in Cochabamba, Bolivia and in Ghana, Africa, but Compassion is in countries across the world. We encourage you to consider sponsoring a child – in Bolivia, Ghana or, in any area of the world that is of interest to you. To learn more about Compassion and child sponsorship, please click the Compassion box below. To learn about our specific connections in Bolivia and Ghana, reach out to Whitney Swenson.
Missionary Support & Care
We support a growing number of people and organizations who share the love of Christ with people around the world. We want to excel at raising up and supporting people who are actively involved in fulfilling Christ’s great commission. (Matthew 28:18-20)
We encourage you to learn more about the people we support. You can find current pictures of our missionaries and ways to pray for them by picking up a pamphlet at our Info Center.
*Many of our missionaries are working in areas of the world that are hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ and actively root out those working for this cause. Because of that, please do not share any of the printed material electronically (via social media, email, etc.)