Our Heart for Missions
Decatur Baptist has a global vision of taking Christ to the world by loving God, loving people and serving both.
Missions Journey Opportunities
Each year we have a number of missions journeys to choose from. Each one provides a unique experience and the opportunity to be a part of what the Lord is doing in other parts of the globe.
Community Impact Celebration
DBC hosts a Community Impact Celebration (CIC) in the spring of each year. It’s a time of celebration for what God has done in the city of Decatur over the past year and a celebration in expectation of what God is going to do in the coming year.
Global Impact Celebration
DBC hosts a Global Impact Celebration (GIC) in the fall of each year. It’s a time of celebration for what God has done over the past year and a celebration in expectation of what God is going to do in the coming year.
Our plan and strategy
involves several key things
- Strong missionary partnerships and relationships around the world
- Missions journey opportunities for our members to see and experience the field
- Faith promise giving
- Our annual Global Impact Celebration
Jerusalem
Our Jerusalem team endeavors to enhance the outreach opportunities of our church by creating new opportunities to share Christ. Through partnerships with various organizations in our city and area, we seek to take the love of Christ out into our city and community. A few examples are:
- Committee on Church Cooperation
- The Alabama Jubilee
- Sav-A-Life Pregnancy Center
- First Priority of Decatur
- Clothe Our Kids of North Alabama
- Neighborhood Christian Center
Judea
Our Judea team helps us with the organizational needs as we seek to partner with new churches being planted and established throughout the United States. Planning trips to these locations to do outreach work, VBS, prayer walks and sports camps are just a few of the ways the Judea team is helping us reach our 2025 vision. These types of events are a huge blessing to those newly planted churches just trying to get started.
Samaria
Our Samaria team oversees the many missionaries that we support and partner with in the Americas. By keeping in touch with the missionary by way of email, prayer letters, missions journeys and constant prayer, we are able to partner with and be a part of taking the gospel to many needy areas.
The Ends of the Earth
Our Ends of the Earth team extends our outreach worldwide. Through partnerships with many missionaries, projects and short-term journeys, our church is able to experience firsthand what it’s like to be a missionary. Nothing can take the place of personally seeing, touching, smelling and hearing what takes place on the mission field halfway around the world. That firsthand experience is life changing.
Our Five Year Plan | 2030 Vision
Isaiah 37:30-32 – Take Root, Bear Fruit, Go Forth
Take Root
- Disciple every member of DBC to be a faithful follower of Jesus Christ
- Train and mobilize every DBC member to evangelize in their daily life
- Train and equip 25 members of DBC to serve in full time pastoral or missionary capacity
- Mobilize 250 DBC members to encourage and support DBC missionaries as Missionary Champions
- Train 1500 church planters through our partnership with the ACHIEVE Alliance
Bear Fruit
- Mobilize 300 DBC members to serve non-profits in Decatur and Morgan County through the Community Impact Celebration
- See 250,000 people trust Christ through our members and partnerships
- Plant 24,000 churches through our members and partnerships
- Engage one unengaged, unreached people group through our partnership with the Timothy Training Initiative
Go Forth
- Send 5 DBC families to plant a church in the continental United States
- Send 30 short-term (a month or less) mission teams
- Send 15 long-term (a month or more) mission teams
- Send 6 DBC family units to the foreign mission field in full time ministry
Upcoming Mission Journeys
One of the greatest life-changing experiences for a believer is to go on a mission journey. Whether it’s helping a new church in another state or visiting a missionary working in another country — you’ll never fully understand the importance of missions until you go. Every person needs to see it, feel it and experience it first hand. We encourage you to look through the following opportunities and pray about going.
If you would like to sign up for any of these journeys, please complete the form at the bottom of the page and fill out the Mission Journey Application. Applications should be turned in to the church office or emailed to Makayla.
2026 Mission Journeys
Centershot Eastern Nationals in Louisville, Kentucky
May 6th- 9th
Team leader: Steve Cox
Team size: 40
Minister to over 15,000 students while facilitating the archery competition
Missionaries: Aaron and Jennifer Scheer
Dominican Republic
July 28th- August 3rd
Team leader: TBD
Team size: 8-10
Backpack outreach and evangelism
Missionaries: Lee and Heather Carter
Chipata, Zambia
April 11th- 23rd
Team leader: Seth Keenum
Team is FULL
Street evangelism for new church plants in Chipata and Mfuwe
Missionaries: Justin and Mandy Bedwell
Southern Provence, Zambia
June (late June- early July) – Dates TBD
Team leader: Al Miller
Team size: 4-6
Conduct the 2nd Annual Discipleship Conference (team members must be able to teach discipleship topics)
Missionaries: Joseph and Sheri Haden
Malawi
June 2nd-12th
Team leader: TBD
Team size: 10
Preach at the Annual Bible Conference, run a two day VBS, lead a women’s conference, preach at public schools and minister to the soccer clubs and orphanage
Missionaries: Brian and Phyllis Kaoma
London
June 1st-9th
Team leader: Brian Kelly
Team size: 8
Evangelism for new church plant
Missionaries: Brian and Mindy Clark