Global Missions

High Point Church helps support 31 missionary singles/couples around the world. That's a HUGE number of missionaries for a congregation of our size, and a testimony that missions are an important part of our ministry as a church.

Our missionaries are an extension of us, working from our local UW-Madison campus to “closed country hostile areas”. Missionaries make a difference in many people's lives and we need to do everything we can to support them. It is critical to support our long-term missionaries and help keep them in the mission field with minimal distractions.

The Global Missions Team [GMT] is charged with the responsibility of managing the financial and spiritual support of our missionaries. The GMT relates to our missionaries in the following ways:
  • We PRAY for our missionaries and pass along pertinent prayer requests via the HPC bulletin.
  • We keep missions in the forefront so we as a congregation feel connected to God's work around the world and are challenged ourselves to "make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:18-20)
  • We correspond with our missionaries to get specific prayer requests and to find out if there are any special financial needs.
  • We maintain a Global Missions interactive display board/map in the narthex area showing where all of our missionaries are located.

As funds become available, we allocate monies from the Where Most Needed Fund to help keep our missionaries on the field and resourced. The HPC Where Most Needed Fund has been used to provide funds to several missionaries to help them replace non-functioning laptop computers help defray the cost of a vehicle, help fly a family back to the field, etc. A major part of the GMT journey is to lift up our missionaries in prayer as well as discuss and pray about Where Most Needed Fund allocations. (See below to learn more about the Where Most Needed Fund.)

Does the GMT need help? Yes, we do! We especially need people interested in missions from all generations, single people to represent our unmarried missionaries, prayer warriors who will join us in praying for our missionaries and small groups to adopt one domestic or overseas missionary, so each one feels loved and cared for by our congregation. We need you! Please contact Don Williams if you're willing to help on our team or behind the scenes.

Where Most Needed Fund

The HPC annual budget allocates funding for the missions program, administered by the Missional Church Team. It is predominantly used for salary and ministry expenses of the missionaries we help financially support.

The other source of revenue is the Where Most Needed Mission Fund. The Where Most Needed Fund’s sole source of income is from designated giving by the congregation. It is used for:
  • Emergency needs of supported missionaries, such as medical
  • Special “one time” assistance for unexpected or special needs identified by our missionaries
  • Support of persons within our congregation going on short- term mission trips
  • Help in situations where natural disaster, political unrest, or economic collapse opens doors for Gospel witness if funding is available, other special projects that will extend the Gospel to areas of the world where it is least known
  • Allocations are made regularly as funds are available, with $2,000 retained in the account for an emergency need.

Contributions to the Where Most Needed Fund can be made through the weekly offering on Sunday mornings, or at any time by sending them to the church office, clearly identified for the Where Most Needed Fund.