Missions

About

The heart of Highland and the heart of every Believer is for all to know that Jesus saves. Being on mission is about living a life that points to Jesus through our words and actions. We want to take the Gospel, this good news of Jesus, to the neighborhood and to the nations, and we want every member of Highland to be a part. Highland is living out the command of Jesus to GO and make disciples of all nations!

Highland has embraced the calling of loving our community and neighborhood where God has placed us. We are at work in the name of the Lord, daily serving in various ministries taking place in our midst.   

For more information about Missions at Highland contact Jamie Hipp

Go Nights

For 4 weeks this summer Highland will come together as a church family to recognize and celebrate God’s movements in Waco and around the world. These special evenings are designed to inspire and equip us to join in His work through prayer, storytelling, and hands-on serving opportunities.

Each gathering will feature powerful testimonies of life change—stories of how God is transforming lives locally and globally. We will spend time in focused prayer, lifting up our city, our mission partners, and those in need. And as we listen and pray, we will also take action by getting connected to serve in various ways in our community and to the ends of the earth.

Whether people are looking to deepen their faith, connect with others, or step into new ways of serving, Go Nights are a great way to engage in God’s work and be part of something bigger than themselves. Everyone will be encouraged, challenged, and mobilized to make an impact!

Meeting Time & Place: 6:30-8pm in the Life Center - dessert fellowship at end of evening

*Registration required for Kids Go Nights for children 0 yrs-3rd Grade (completed). 

SPEAKER LINEUP

July 15 - Report: West Africa, Dale Smith (Jesus Said Go)

Kids Go Nights Registration for 7/15 

Passion of God

What is the Passion of God?

Passion of God is an 8-week class for anyone with the desire to know more about God’s global purpose of making disciples of all nations and discover what role they could play in God’s global purpose. If you are interested at any level, this class is just for you!

Passion of God exists to equip the Saints for reaching the unreached by learning about God’s heart for the nations, discussing the biblical basis for missions, and applying the Great Commission to our lives.


Curriculum

Week 1 - God’s Passion for All Nations

Week 2 - God’s Motivation for His Glory

Week 3 - God’s Mission for the Church

Week 4 - Worldview and World Religions

Week 5 - History of Missions Movements

Week 6 - Brutal Facts and Task Remaining

Week 7 - Crossing Cultures with the Gospel

Week 8 - 5 Habits of a World Christian

When and where?

(Thursday Nights) Sept. 3 - Oct. 22

6:30-8:30pm

Wellness Center, Multipurpose Room B

Community

God has given Highland tremendous opportunities both in our community and within the walls of the Highland campus. We are committed to serving the Dean Highland neighborhood and desire to see hearts and lives transformed by the Gospel. 

Dean Highland Elementary

Highland is privileged to serve and support teachers at nearby Dean Highland Elementary as classroom assistants each school year. We work with teachers in various ways and seek to come alongside to tangibly help wherever they might need assistance in their classroom. This is a weekly service opportunity offered during school hours with a minimum 1 hour commitment to serve each week. Contact Emma Jean Peralta for more information and to apply.

Background Check Form

Spanish Language Ministry 

The Spanish Language Ministry of Highland consists of a citizenship class, ESL class, parent tutor engagement, and weekly Bible study. Each of these classes lend themselves for you to be a student, teacher, or volunteer in other capacities. Contact Rosy Ramos for more information.

WIN

WIN is a recreational mentoring and tutoring program designed to share wisdom and instruction from the Lord throughout the school year. We work with students from Dean Highland Elementary school, focusing on basic English and Math skills. Our tutors help by listening to them read, encouraging them to complete their homework, and by sharing the Good News that Jesus cares for them.  WiN is Monday through Friday from 3:05-5:15pm at Highland.  Contact Emma Jean Peralta for more information and to apply.

Volunteer Application

Background Check

Character Reference

Volunteer Training Video

Statement of Acknowledgement

Hoops Huddle

Hoops Huddle seeks to reach 3rd-7th grade students each fall and spring semester by teaching basketball skills with a message of Hope throughout the school year. We host a 20-week skills development course on Wednesday nights from 5-6:30PM in the Life Center. We believe the Gospel changes lives, and we want to put that on display through energetic, encouraging coaching and personal interaction with a coach. Contact the Hoops Staff for more information and to apply.

Wellness Center

The Wellness Center will provide an avenue for hands-on ministry as our members utilize their gifts and skills to come alongside our neighbors. We will offer help and hope in the name of Christ. Contact Frank San Martin for more information.

Foster and Adoption Ministry (FAM)

What is FAM?

The Foster and Adoption Ministry is a group of people who are impacted by, or interested in, foster care and/or adoption who gather regularly to grow in maturity of God’s vision for the orphan so that they can go into our communities to be used as vessels for God’s work.

  • FAM is a community of support for those going through the Foster or Adoption journey.
  • FAM is a source of encouragement for one another with scripture, prayer, and meeting tangible needs.
  • FAM provides an avenue by which those seeking more information on foster care or adoption can find answers to their questions.
  • FAM will be a place where foster and adoptive parents can better understand God's love for the orphan and how they can better parent kids from hard places.
  • FAM will be an avenue for people to serve those that are involved in foster or adoption in our community.

You can join our FAM group for monthly events and service opportunities by following this link here or contact Frank San Martin with any questions or for more information.

Partners are key to everything we do at Highland in the global domain. They are on the front lines of the work of ministry day in and day out. We come alongside and help hold up their arms as they faithfully engage people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. It is an honor and a privilege for us to partner together for the gospel. 

Baptist Student Ministry (BSM)

BSM Baylor aims to impact the campus for Christ to raise up student leaders who can articulate their faith and be sent out to make a global impact for the gospel. They want to see non-believing students become believers, believers become disciples, and disciples become disciple-makers. 

Care Net Pregnancy Center

The mission of Care Net is to honor and promote the sanctity of human life and to educate, support, and love individuals in crisis due to unplanned pregnancies, past abortions, or sexual promiscuity. They provide support for an abstinent lifestyle for youth and unmarried adults to draw people near to the Lord Jesus Christ and to bring Him honor and glory.

CRU 

CRU Baylor is a caring community that is passionate about connecting people to Jesus Christ. Their purpose is helping to fulfill the Great Commission in the power of the Holy Spirit by leading people to faith in Jesus Christ, building them in their faith, and sending them out to share their faith with others. 

Discipleship Unlimited

Since 1974, thousands of people, both inside and outside prison walls, have felt the impact of Discipleship Unlimited, a multi-faceted ministry based in Gatesville, Texas. We seek to build up the body of believers in the faith through prayer, Bible study, accountability to other believers, and the application of Biblical truth.

FCA

The Heart of Texas Fellowship of Christian Athletes serves a 12 county area. Some of the ways they serve are: Coaches Bible studies, student-led huddle groups, team chaplain program, area-wide outreach events, the Victory Bowl, and numerous summer camps. Their mission is to present to coaches and athletes with the challenge and adventure of accepting Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, serving Him in their relationships, and engaging in the fellowship of the church. 

KLIFE

Waco KLIFE is a community-wide, interdenominational Christian ministry of discipleship and fellowship for youth and their families. Through various activities, KLIFE kids grow in their faith through fellowship. They learn that following Christ and discovering His plan for their lives is an exciting adventure and that they can count on friendship and support from leaders and peers.

Mission Waco

Mission Waco | Mission World is a Christian, interdenominational, holistic ministry that works with people at many levels. It focuses on training middle-class Christians to work among the poor, develop a Christian worldview, and build relationships with the marginalized and unchurched.

Rick Caywood Ministries

Rick Caywood Ministries is a work of faith feeding God’s children to the uttermost parts of the earth. They deliver the tangible bread that saves the body as well as the spiritual bread that saves the soul.

-U.S. / Mexican border food ministry
-International food ministry
-Inner-city food ministry
-Logistics support for other ministries
-Disaster relief support
-Other mission projects as the Father gives opportunity

Together for Good

Together for Good connects volunteers from local churches with isolated parents and vulnerable children. They provide wrap-around, relational care that helps to stabilize families, so that they can move beyond a crisis. There are four primary ways that volunteers serve: hosting children during a crisis - hostings range from one day to one year; hosting children for shorter periods (typically a weekend), so that parents are able to experience respite relief; building relationships with parents through parent advocacy; and meeting the practical needs of parents, such as meals. is a non-denominational,

Vertical Ministries

Vertical is a non-denominational, student-led ministry that seeks to challenge college students to actively pursue an authentic and “vertical” relationship with God. At Vertical, the desire is to create an opportunity one night a week for the college community, regardless of other affiliations, to worship and be challenged together in a communal setting.

Young Life

Young Life of Greater Waco is on mission to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. The ministry is focused on local middle schools and high schools as well as Baylor University, McLennan Community College, and Texas State Technical College. Leaders go to the students at the schools (John 1:14) and build friendships (1 Thessalonians 2:8) as they strive to live out and share the Gospel.

International

Our aim is to take the Good News of Jesus to the nations. Teams serve in various capacities with partners throughout the globe. At the center of it all, we desire to make His name and renown known, and to push back the darkness for His namesake. He is the Lord, and there is no other.

North Africa

There are hundreds of unreached people groups, most of them Muslim, all across North Africa encompassing tens of millions of people with little or no access to the Gospel. We continue to maintain an ongoing partnership with missionaries in order to share the Good News in an unspecified country. Teams will faithfully proclaim the Gospel as they meet people in the marketplace, coffee shops, restaurants, and homes. The teams will also spend time prayer walking throughout the city. 

Dates: October 5-14, 2026

Cost: $2,100 

Application Closed

Taiwan

We have forged an exciting partnership with missionaries outside the capital city of Taipei in order to engage the lost and proclaim the gospel among the unreached. Over 97% of the people on the island do not proclaim Jesus as Lord and 61% of the population follow ethnic religions. The Taiwanese are drawn to the love and care they see from the body of Christ and desire that same community for themselves. This team will labor to push back the darkness for the Kingdom offering hope to the hopeless.

Dates: May 18-29, 2026

Cost: $2,200

Application Closed

Netherlands

Highland is coming alongside missionary partners to reach the ever growing immigrant and refugee community in Amsterdam. Some of the refugees receive official approval to enter the country while others arrive by any means possible. There is an openness to hear the gospel and to receive the Bible in their language. Our time will be spent daily in prayer walking, making new friendships, and sharing the Gospel. An ability to walk a good distance each day is required. 

Dates: October 16-25, 2026

Cost: $2,100 

Application Closed

Canada (Spanish Speaking)

This team will be partnering with two Spanish-speaking churches whom we began a new partnership with 3 years ago. The team will plan and execute a week-long Vacation Bible School and also participate in leading a Sunday worship gathering. Because of the unique language context, a Spanish speaking fluency is required.  

Dates: July 11-18, 2026

Cost: $1,800

Application Closed

Guatemala Family Trip

Highland continues its longstanding relationship with New Life Children's Home (NLCH) in Guatemala City. The team will engage in activities with the children who currently call NLCH home as well as among those who attend the private school just across the street. The school is made up of the kids from the home as well as neighborhood children. The ages of the students range from elementary through high school. The team will serve at the school doing things such as teaching on American culture, English language, and Bible, as well as numerous other activities. It's a family trip in that families are welcome to apply (children must be a minimum age of 10), but married couples, singles, and students can also apply for the team! 

Dates: June 20-27, 2026 

Cost: $2,000

Application Closed

Hoops for Hope

Join a team of passionate coaches on an unforgettable international mission trip. Share your basketball skills and the transformative power of HOPE with communities around the world. Lace up your sneakers, grab your whistle, and join a team for an experience that will have a lasting impact!

Trip Locations: Alaska, Brazil, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya (2 teams), Madagascar, Moldova, Slovakia, St. Croix. 

Apply for any trip here.

Partners are key to everything we do at Highland in the global domain. They are on the front lines of the work of ministry day in and day out. We come alongside and help hold up their arms as they faithfully engage people with the Good News of Jesus Christ. It is an honor and a privilege for us to partner together for the Gospel.

Ananias House

Ananias House exists to support the growing body of Christ in the Middle East and North Africa with dynamic ministries to develop churches, train leaders, and provide life-enriching services to local communities of believers. Ananias House seeks to support believers in the greater Middle East region and North Africa, who have been devastated by war and persecution, encouraging and equipping them to fulfill the Great Commission. 

Commission to Every Nation

CTEN is a servant organization that helps missionaries fulfill the unique vision God has given them. Through administrative support, they provide accountability and help the missionary get to the field. Through pastoral care, they help the missionary remain effective and healthy while there.

ELAM

ELAM has a two-fold vision: that all the people of the Iran region would have the opportunity to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and follow Him as a disciple, and that Iranians would be instrumental in taking the Gospel to other Muslims. To achieve this vision, they follow a systematic approach

  1. Train leaders for fruitful, effective ministry in the Iran region.
  2. Equip the Iranian church with Bibles and resources for evangelism and discipleship.
  3. Send the Gospel into the Iran region through trained evangelists, church planters, and Christian media. 
Jesus Said Go

JSG is a ministry with a vision to train pastors in Bible storytelling, to set forth a church planting model to be successfully used by mother tongue pastors around the world. Model projects have been launched in unreached languages in West Africa. From this small beginning, the vision is to see that mother tongue pastors and Bible storytellers will rise up throughout the unreached people groups of the world bringing story groups and churches to every unreached village.

Making Disciples International

Teaches on intentional disciple making and spiritual leadership nationally and internationally. They also lead biblical counseling seminars with a focus on freedom and healing for the soul. Their ministry passion is to see the Lord’s people embrace the cross and to grow into Godly maturity as His disciples. In turn, seeing disciples become disciple-makers and spiritual leaders.

Mission Aviation Fellowship 

At MAF, they believe that everyone—even the isolated—deserves a chance to experience the love of Jesus Christ.  So they use aviation, technology, and training because in many places those are the only ways to reach isolated people with Christ’s love.  

New Life Advancement Institute

NLAI is dedicated to living and proclaiming Christ, the Word and Bread of Life, to a lost and hungry world.  It is an interdenominational, international mission organization that is dedicated to world evangelization by identifying and developing ministry approaches that are relevant to the various social, economic, political, and cultural environments of the nations where we work.

One Body International

The mission of OBI is to make followers of Jesus, introduce them to the fullness of what God the Father has for them, empower them to walk in their identity in Him by the Holy Spirit, and train them to do the same thing with others. The vision is to see a discipleship movement of people in love with God, growing in true identity, and marked by the works and ways of Jesus, which will permeate the nation of Taiwan and spread from there into all of Asia and the world.

World Venture

At World Venture, they find, train, send, and support catalysts who are filled with the Spirit and called to the unengaged, unreached, unchurched, and unwanted (marginalized) of the world.  We focus on those places where they can create the most change for the Gospel. 

As the local church expands through committed disciples, it greatly influences its surrounding community. They desire to these Gospel movements to span all aspects of a society through the arts, media, education, church outreach, family and medicine, science and agriculture, business, and government.

YWAM

Youth With A Mission is a global movement of Christians from many cultures, age groups, and Christian traditions, dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced “WHY-wham”), they unite in a common purpose to know God and to make Him known. When they began in 1960, their main focus was to get youth involved in missions. Today, they still focus on youth, and they also involve people aged 8 to 80. They currently work in more than 1,100 locations in over 180 countries, with a staff of over 18,000.

God has uniquely connected Highland with families, couples, and singles throughout the earth. Currently, we have people positioned on 5 continents. We seek to come alongside our people to pray and undergird the work of ministry. The Gospel is regularly being proclaimed and disciples are being made.

  • Taiwan
  • Ecuador
  • South Asia
  • England
  • USA
  • Guatemala
  • North Asia
  • Spain
  • Eastern Europe
  • Netherlands
  • North Africa
  • Ghana
  • Bangladesh
  • Dominican Republic
  • Egypt