Missions
Our involvement in missions has three legs:

• Reaching out to the lost in our own community
• Spiritual support of believers and leaders in other countries
• Practical ministries to the underprivileged

Spiritual support of believers and leaders in other countries
We provide spiritual support, teaching and guidance to many churches, leaders and individual believers across the world. We do this mainly through the medium of the International Fellowship of Christian Believers and through the following programs:

• We run conferences and seminars to equip pastors for ministry in the various third-world countries as well as in the USA.
• Our senior pastor is in daily contact with people across the world via e-mail. He uses this medium to support believers and leaders who are geographically, theologically or socially isolated.
• Our devotional articles reach across the globe and minister to several thousand people on every continent, every week.
• Tapes and CDs of our teachings are distributed internationally.

Practical ministries to the underprivileged
In past years Burbank Community Church has been involved in feeding schemes in various parts of the developing world including West Africa, the Philippines and Mexico. Although we are still involved in these projects to a lesser extent, our main focus is currently on Mexicali and Tijuana in Mexico.

Under the leadership of Pastor Max Lopez, members of our church have been traveling to these areas for ministry over the past 2 years and continue to do so at least once a month.

In Mexico we work in conjunction with a local ministry called Christo Rompe Las Cadenas under the leadership of Ms Guadalupe Barajas. The main projects we are committed to are:

1. A feeding scheme for 150 to 220 underprivileged children. We also provide them with clothing, blankets and small Christmas gifts.
2. A ministry to support a group of abused women with their children.
3. We are working with Pastor Oscar Soto in a rehabilitation program for about 60 drug and alcohol dependants. Our purpose is to guide them to recovery, and financial, and psychological independence. We have also been assisting Pastor Soto with building materials and labor in order to improve the housing of these men.
4. We are also working with 60 to 80 women in a women’s prison in Mexicali. We help them with basic clothing and items for personal hygiene. Our goal is also to help them to be fully rehabilitated in order that they may became contributing members of society.

With all these projects we are hoping to uplift these people but to also create incentives for them to remain in Mexico instead of crossing the border illegally in search of a handout. This we do by teaching them various skills which will enable them to make a living in Mexico. We do not believe in just giving people a hand-out but we want to give them a hand-up in order that they will become self-sufficient.