Outreach

Local Outreach

PARISH NURSE

Liz Alcock is our Parish Nurse. She uses her gifts to minister to the health to our congregation by providing information in keeping people spiritually and physically healthy. Liz oversees our Health Care Committee & the free blood pressure checks which take place the last Sunday of each month in the vestibule, monthly Cancer Support group meetings as well as coordinates yearly CPR classes, Mobile Mammography units, Blood Mobiles, etc.

Clifford’s Health Care Committee is made up of our Parish Nurse, professional health care members and lay people. Their duties are, but not limited to:

Planning and assisting with the implementation of the church’s health ministry
Assisting in congregational health surveys as needed to determine the greatest health need
Strives to develop and implement preventive and health promotional activities
Assist in presenting educational presentations

Clifford’s Health Care Committee Members: Liz Alcock and Anna Ware (co-chair), Barbara Arrington, Rosie Lewis, Rose Mabrey, Craig Thomas, Juanita Farlow, Vivian Williams

Please visit the Parish Nurse Bulletin Board located in the hallway near the elevator for the latest health information & tips from Liz.

Liz Alcock invites you to contact her if you have any questions:

531 Higginbotham Creek Road, Amherst, VA 24521

Resources

Resources from the American Heart Association for dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

American Heart Association’s Keeping Kids Active

AHA’s How to Move More Anywhere, Anytime for families

AHA’s Resources for Caregivers for those who may be caring for elders or other loved ones while WFH

A USA Today piece on helping the elderly during COVID-19 offered for your convenience

A workout from our Kids Heart Challenge resources for families (workout begins around minute 1:10)

Recipes from Kids Heart Challenge:

Berry Nuts Granola Bars, Ranch Chive Popcorn, Tuscan Bean Soup,

Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup

Managing Stress and Anxiety

Nursing Home Ministry

Clifford Baptist Church ministers to our senior citizens through various Nursing Home Ministries. Below is the schedule of the visits:

Fourth Tuesday of the month at 11:00am – Fairmont Crossing Nursing Home, Amherst, VA
Contact Person: Margaret Nash 434-946-5687

Hearing Impaired

An Interpreter as well as hearing assistant devices (available in the vestibule – see an usher) for those with hearing problems are available during the worship hour.

Support Groups

At Clifford, we believe that life changes happen when we gather together on Sunday mornings and throughout the week. We have launched some specific groups that speak to the needs of our congregation such as Divorce Care, Alcoholics Anonymous, Cancer Support Groups, and more!

View Our Support Groups

Domestic & International Missions Trips

It has become increasingly clear to CBC leadership that mission efforts, whether domestic or international are a primary thread in God’s weaving of the Clifford Baptist Church garment. All missions are equally important, whether long term, short term, overseas, in another state or locally. The only question that’s important is “are you serving where the Lord has called you?” If you are; then you are just as faithful to the Lord if you serve locally as if you serve internationally. Surrender to missions is a question of obedience; not location or distance.

People from Clifford have ministered in the following places:

Internationally

Angola, Argentina, Brazil,Chad,Chile,Dominican Republic,Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala,Haiti, India, Ireland,Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rumania, Russia, Slovakia,South Africa,Switzerland,Tanzania,Thailand,Turkey,Yemen,Zambia

Domestically

Gulf Coast, Kairos Prison Ministry Impact Virginia, Mountain Mission School, Cherokee, North Carolina, Charlotte, South Carolina, Standing Rock, N.Dakota, Backpack Ministry, Good News Club,Samaritans Purse, Meals on Wheels

The Lord is touching the world from Clifford and we want to keep doing it as long and in as many places as the Lord will take us.

Previous Mission Trips

2012 Hope of Life International Guatemala Trip

Team: 19 people
Length: 7 days
Purpose: To fill in and work wherever Hope of Life International Staff needed us most
Goals Accomplished: Helped out in the Rescued baby center and the Senior Center. We fed people at a feeding center near the local dump. We dug the footings and then made the forms for the footings for a home. We put together food bags then traveled into the country to hand deliver them. We tied many linear feet of pepper plants and dug many rows of soil for more plants in a half dozen or more greenhouses.
2013 Mountain Mission School Trip

Team: 14 people
Length: 4 days
Purpose: To help MMS get various jobs and projects completed to free up their staff to do other things. We were a force multiplier.
Goals Accomplished: Dismantled a fence; removed posts and ramp; cleaned up the area; hand dug the area for the form, built the form, spread the gravel and poured the concrete for the new dumpster pad; replaced broken support pole on a swing set; repaired a drainage pipe; weeded and mowed; straightened and cleaned the auditorium; repaired a dishwasher; cut over $1000 worth of coupons; inventoried a sports shed; cleaned bathrooms and led a Chapel service with a missions presentation.
2014 Hope of Life International Guatemala

Team: 10 people
Length: 10 days
Purpose: to take care of multiple jobs in order to free up the staff and local workers to do other things. We were a force multiplier.
Goals Accomplished: Construction, cleaned up newly built hospital, food distribution in a village, worked on a parking lot near the playground at the top of the mountain, worked construction on a house in a different small village by the river.
2016 Until the Whole World Knows Ministry in Port au Prince, Haiti

Team: 7 people
Length: 8 days
Purpose: To do quite a bit of repair in a walled in school, and to hang doors throughout a home that will become the halfway house to transition school girls that age out of the school from the protected environment of the school to the reality of the streets of Port au Prince.
Goals Accomplished: built doors for each of the stalls in the bathroom, built library shelves, repaired a hole in a wall that allowed rats to get inside with the children, hung doors throughout a large 2 story home that will be the girls house to help transition them from a protected environment to the real world of the streets.
2019 Port au Prince, Haiti

Team: 5 people
Length: 8 days
Purpose: To build counters, desks, shelving, display boxes and pallet wall display units to help a brand new ministry designed to provide a place for Haitian artisans to work, display and sell their hand made products. This helps them establish a profession which allows them to provide for their families with dignity.
Goals Accomplished: Under the guidance and supervision of Ed Sale the team built 4 pallet display units, 2 tables, 4 tall finished cabinets, 1 short finished cabinet, 6 display boxes, 17 shelving cabinets for one building, 1 desk, 1 68” counter and 1 80” counter.

Upcoming Mission Trips

North Africa Region
Mountain Mission School, Grundy, Virginia

Contact People/Trip Leaders: Jim & Elaine Hooker

Ehooker03@aol.com

Date of Trip: leaving after worship August 25^th, 2019 and returning August 28^th, 2019

Required Skills: No particular skills needed. General work in and around the school inside and out.

Note: If you are interested please contact Jim & Elaine for more information.

Cost: If you desire you can be housed and fed in the facility which greatly reduces cost.
Disaster Relief Team

Destination: Local and surrounding areas
Contact People/Trip Leaders: Adam & Tracy Wilburn henrythumb@aol.com
Date of Event: As needed
Required Skills: You would need to have had Disaster Relief Training which is available occasionally
Note: If you are interested please contact Adam or Tracy Wilburn.
Cost: Please ask Adam or Tracy.

Want to go on a Mission Trip?

Spiritual requirement: All team members must be a born again believer in the Christian faith.

Gender: Both men and women are welcome

Age: 18 and up generally. Under age people may come if accompanied by a parent or guardian

Other Qualifications: You will be required to fill an application from which the team will be selected. Some trips have particular needs and/or restrictions based on where in the world we are going. Another link on this webpage will direct you to the Trip Application.

Note: Disaster Relief:

Please check with Adam and/or Tracy about the specifics of participation such as age, training, etc. It could be quite different than for a mission trip.

Mission Trip Application