The One Life Campaign 

The One Life campaign is more than just another financial campaign at Lakeland. The actions at Lakeland during this campaign will have real world significance, and bring forth stories of healing, hope, and promise. Watch as the elders of Lakeland talk about the importance of this One Life we have.

House of Hope Story

House of Hope is dedicated to improving the quality of life of families affected by domestic violence and sexual abuse by increasing public awareness, providing services, support and shelter, and utilizing resources necessary to serve the needs of victims and their dependants.  Services include: emergency shelter, parenting classes, legal referrals, emergency transportation, advocacy services, support groups, transitional housing aid, employment/budget training, sexual assault examination support, and providing a safe exchange/supervised visitation location

Won by One to Jamaica Story

Won by One to Jamaica’s mission is : To show the love of Jesus Christ by providing opportunities through education, empowerment, discipleship and economic development for Jamaican and American lives to be transformed.  Our vision is to inspire a vibrant Harmons Valley where Jamaicans and Americans pursue God’s transformational hope together.  Our initiative will focus on the church that WBOTJ started, Grace Community Fellowship.  Pastor Paul Blake leads Sunday worship at GCF. Out of this church, children’s and youth ministry programs have grown into weekly meetings led by WBOTJ staff. Men’s and women’s small groups also regularly meet to encourage each other, discuss Scripture, and learn more about living life with Christ. Although there are many places for Harmons residents to attend church, we hope that GCF will become a place for the community to worship together and explore the true, biblical claims of Christ.
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Summer College Internship Story

​Future church ministry leaders usually find their calling in college. Our church wants to capture the next generation of Christian leaders by offering a nine-week full-time internship for several full-time degree-seeking students. The interns’ primary task is high school discipleship. Interns will pour their lives into a handful of students. During the daytime they will learn the full counsel of God in scripture and worship, with focus on New Testament mission and discipleship.

Welcoming the Stranger Story

​This initiative aims to welcome the most vulnerable: Immigrants, refugees and asylees. The church is called to protect, welcome and show hospitality to those who have been shunned from their own countries based on a credible threat to their lives. Often, these families must leave their homes suddenly without anything to carry with them and nowhere to go. War, famine, religious or social persecution keeps these families from being able to live safely or live at all.  The church is called to intervene. Welcoming the Stranger both helps fund organizations who help refugees where they are in their own displacement as well as assimilate families in the KC area by being a “good neighbor”.

Pro Deo Story

​Pro Deo’s mission is to create a relational community where every teen is loved, valued, and equipped for change. Pro Deo works with underserved teenagers, a substantial portion of whom have a history of exposure to multiple trauma, mental health issues, and socioeconomic problems.  Numerous success stories can attest to the impact Pro Deo has made on so many teens throughout the years of this initiative’s operation. 

The Global Orphan Project Story

​The Global Orphan Project exists to partner with local churches to expand their capacity to provide a complete, holistic and healthy response to caring for orphaned and vulnerable children and their families. The focus is on asset-based community development in family strengthening, family models of care and catered transition plans for every child defines GO Project’s signature ministry model both domestically and internationally. 

Eastlynn House Story

​The Eastlynn House is our property connection with our urban core on the East side of Kansas City, Missouri. Located across the street from our inner city ministry partner, The Hope Center. The Hope Center trains neighborhood students to be strong Christian disciples and community leaders. The Eastlynn House is ideally positioned to be a positive presence in the neighborhood. Lakeland’s task is to complete the renovation and continue to own, maintain, and make the home available rent-free as long as it is helpful for The Hope Center. By making the Eastlynn House a positive force in the neighborhood, Lakeland maintains a strong physical presence in on the unresourced East side of the city. 

Dignity Liberia Story

​Dignity Liberia works on bringing restoration and hope to women with fistulas and their communities through healing, education, and prevention. This initiative helps fund and participate in fistula repair surgeries. They also offer on-going emotional support for the women awaiting surgery, those who have had successful surgeries and are in the process of healing, and also those who are facing the real possibility that they may never completely heal and have to live with their injury. 

Veronica's Voice Story

​The mission of Veronica's Voice is to empower women to exit from, prevent entry into, and end all demand for prostitution/sex trafficking through survivor leadership. The heart of Jesus is with the marginalized and oppressed, especially women. God placed the vision for Veronica's Voice in Founder Kristy Child's heart. Through this vision, Veronica's Voice heals and empowers women, while challenging cultural paradigms that leave women so vulnerable in the first place. God created men and women as equals. Veronica's Voice promotes this equality for all women so that they may be strong, safe, and fully participate in our community and ultimately in the Eternal Kingdom of Christ.

The House Church of China Story

The purpose of the House Church of China ministry is to provide financial support and resources to pastors in China who are sharing the good news of Jesus Christ. Their mission also involves training new emerging leaders for China’s church and spreading the good news of Jesus Christ across Asia. The house church in China continues to grow even in the face of increasing pressure and persecution. This initiative addresses the church's need of leaders who are biblically grounded and trained for pastoral responsibilities.

913 Colbern Rd

​The vision of Lakeland Community Church is to build a community of authentic followers of Jesus Christ. Our best tool for accomplishing this ministry is our people, filled with the Spirit and called by God. Our second best is our church building: 913 NE Colbern Road is our home base for ministry. Worship, prayer, small groups, ministry functions, gathering--it all has a home here. With the One Life Financial Challenge we want to continue buying this valuable ministry space and address several needs involving water drainage and run-off to keep our church home in good working order. Before our friends, family, and neighbors get to know the people of our community, they see our home. Let’s put our best foot forward!

Anapra Story

The purpose of the Anapra ministry is to live out the work Jesus describes in Matthew 25, feeding the hungry and clothing the naked, etc. Most families in Anapra struggle to meet the bare necessities for their children and themselves. The Anapra ministry provides a monthly dispense of rice and beans to ensure the hungry are fed. We also provide access to a library/community center that has fresh clean water, clean bathrooms, and 1,000s of books – the wall has a huge quote painted, “YOU BELONG HERE” because our ministry is really about “seeing” our neighbors just across the border, and loving them by providing for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.