Missions

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
The formative experiences of childhood and youth often set the trajectory of a person's life with God. Camp is a powerful discipleship tool available to a local church, and MoCoMi has been doing this faithfully for decades. Supporting them is an investment in the next generation of disciples right here in Missouri.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Send a child or teenager to camp, volunteer as camp faculty for a week, or give financially to help sponsor campers who couldn't otherwise attend. Talk to our kid's ministry or our student ministry teams about registration and scholarship opportunities.

WHAT THEY DO
The Bensons study the Bible with believers and non-believers, share the gospel, and coach and train local disciple-makers in a region of the world where the Church has very little presence. Frontiers as an organization works specifically to reach Muslim communities with the gospel.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
North Africa is among the hardest places in the world to bring the gospel, and that's exactly why someone must go. The Bensons have answered that call, uprooting their family to live and serve in an unfamiliar and at times dangerous context. Capital West walks alongside them through consistent prayer and financial support because we believe every person on earth deserves to hear the name of Jesus.

WHAT THEY DO
Healing House and New Beginnings assists women suffering from substance use disorder in rebuilding their shattered lives through a "Program of Action" rooted in the living Word of God. They provide safe housing, practical education, and faith-based discipleship to help women grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ right here in Jefferson City.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
Addiction doesn't disqualify anyone from grace. The women who come through Healing House's doors are our neighbors, and Jesus calls us to love our neighbors concretely, not just in the abstract. This ministry meets women at their lowest point and walks patiently alongside them toward lasting restoration. That's the gospel in action.

WHAT THEY DO
Life of Hope Ministries exists to rescue street children and high-risk families across Latin America. Working through trusted partners in Guatemala, they address the educational, emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of children who have no safe place to call home. Their work brings stability, dignity, and the hope of the gospel to some of the most vulnerable kids in the Western Hemisphere.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
When Jesus said "let the children come to me," he meant all children, including the forgotten ones. Capital West members have personally traveled to Guatemala with Life of Hope, witnessing firsthand how the gospel takes on flesh in the lives of kids society has discarded. That personal connection is part of why we invest in this work financially and prayerfully.

WHAT THEY DO
The Literature and Teaching Ministry in Joplin publishes reliable, doctrinally sound Bible teaching materials in multiple languages for the church as it grows in different parts of the world. They exist to make sure that believers in developing or underserved regions have access to quality Scripture-based teaching tools in a language they can truly understand and use.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
A new believer in a developing country needs more than a Bible. They need solid teaching, discipleship resources, and theology they can access in their own heart language. LATM multiplies the impact of faithful Bible teaching across cultures and languages, strengthening the global body of Christ from a base right here in Missouri.

WHAT THEY DO
Capital West directly supports Jacob and Addison Rice and their young children, who are serving with Mustard Seed Networks — a ministry focused on planting gospel-centered churches in Japan's largest cities. The Rices are living in Sapporo, building relationships and laying the groundwork for lasting church communities in a city, and a country, with very little Christian presence.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
Japan has only one church for roughly every 16,700 people, and less than 1% of its population claims faith in Christ. It is one of the largest unreached mission fields in the world. The Rices have brought their family to the other side of the globe to begin changing that; one relationship, one conversation, one church plant at a time. We walk with them because the Great Commission doesn't stop at the water's edge.

WHAT THEY DO
Eric and Christa Harland are translating the Bible into the language of the "J people," an unreached people group in East Asia whose name is withheld to protect the security of this sensitive ministry. Bible translation in restricted regions requires extraordinary patience, skill, and courage.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
An entire people group exists without God's Word in their own language. The Harlands have given years of their lives to change that. Revelation 7:9 promises that people from every language will stand before the throne, and the Harlands are working to make that promise a reality for the J people.

WHAT THEY DO
Outreach International recruits, trains, and serves missionary volunteers for work overseas, with a particular focus on areas that are unreached with the gospel or are especially difficult to enter. Their organizational infrastructure equips and deploys workers to places where the need for the gospel is greatest and the barriers to access are highest.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
Sending missionaries requires more than a willing person. It requires an organization that can prepare them, place them well, and sustain them for the long term. Outreach International provides exactly that kind of support structure, making it possible for people like the Harlands to do the kind of deep, long-horizon work that the hardest mission fields require.

WHAT THEY DO
Ozark Christian College's mission is to train men and women for Christian service. As a ministry-focused institution with deep roots in the Restoration Movement, OCC equips students theologically, practically, and spiritually for a lifetime of faithful work in churches, missions, and ministry of every kind. Several people from Capital West have attended or are currently attending OCC.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
Every missionary, minister, and church leader who serves faithfully was formed somewhere. Ozark forms them well. By investing in Christian higher education, Capital West invests in the future of the Church; the pastors, teachers, translators, and missionaries who will carry the gospel forward long after we're gone.

WHAT THEY DO
Pioneer Bible Translators disciples the Bibleless, mobilizing God's people to provide God's Word in every language. With over 600 language groups still waiting for Scripture, PBT is committed to reaching the most marginalized communities on earth through translation, church planting, and discipleship.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
Bible translation is slow, painstaking, and absolutely essential. Everything the Church does downstream depends on people being able to encounter God's Word in a language that reaches their heart, not just their ears. PBT does that work with excellence and conviction, and the network of churches and partners they cultivate makes the whole mission sustainable over the long haul.

WHAT THEY DO
Shiloh Christian Children's Ranch provides Christian homes for abused, neglected, and at-risk children in Northeast Missouri, attending to each child's spiritual, emotional, educational, social, and physical needs. They don't simply house children; they give them a real home, a real family, and a safe place to heal and grow within a Christ-centered environment.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
James 1:27 describes pure and genuine religion as caring for orphans and the vulnerable. Shiloh is that verse made visible in Northeast Missouri. The children who come through their doors have already endured more hardship than most adults ever will. They deserve safety, love, and the deep knowledge that they are made in the image of God and that they matter.

WHAT THEY DO
Show Me Christian Youth Home provides safe, stable, and loving homes for young people struggling because of difficult or dangerous circumstances in their current home environment. Located right here in Central Missouri, they walk alongside youth who need more than just a place to stay, they need a family.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
Loving our neighbors means loving the most vulnerable among them. The young people at Show Me didn't choose their circumstances, and they need the Church to show up for them. Show Me is doing exactly that, and because this is a Central Missouri ministry, these are our neighbors in the most literal sense.

WHAT THEY DO
Sojourn Collegiate Ministry operates on college campuses across New England, reaching students who may have given up on church but haven't given up on God. Meeting students with honesty and without religious pretense, they create space for real questions, real doubt, and real faith, in one of the most unchurched regions in the United States.

WHY WE SUPPORT THEM
New England has some of the lowest rates of church attendance in America, yet its universities are full of young people quietly wrestling with the biggest questions of their lives. Sojourn goes to them where they are. This is frontier mission work, not overseas, but just as much in need of faithful laborers who will show up for the spiritually wandering and stay long enough to walk with them home.