Local & Mercy Care

Reaching across our back fence has always been our priority at WOC. In our view, ministering to the world begins by ministering at home. Caring for our next-door neighbors, co-workers, and fellow students is fundamental to WOC's ministry.

As a church, this approach prevails through acts of both corporate prayer and practical volunteer work. Further, we contribute financially to local agencies that care for and minister to our community—organizations such as Campus Crusade for Christ, the Crisis Pregnancy Center, The Salvation Army and many more. Opportunities to show compassion and kindness to others also arise through food and clothing drives, group volunteer work at local shelters and soup kitchens and many other means of mercy care.

Hurricane Gustav Relief in Middle Tennessee

Nearly 2 million people on Louisiana's coast heeded official calls to flee from Hurricane Gustav. Over 400 hundred of these evacuees arrived in Murfreesboro and were housed at the Recreation Center at MTSU. They left their homes quickly and in uncertainty, some with only the clothes on their backs, and naturally experienced feelings of being displaced and alone.  In response to their need, the Small Group Ministry at WOC gathered a van full of clean, useable clothing for men, women and children for the evacuees of Hurricane Gustav to wear for the duration of their stay in Tennessee and the return trip home. World Outreach Church has been involved in helping people throughout this community in many ways through the Salvation Army, and the Red Cross.