Lord, bend me. bend the Church. bend the Nations.

Outreach In Action

The Bend believes in loving people and being the hands and feet of Jesus. This is demonstrated through our Outreach department.

Our outreach focus is local community, throughout the country and across the world. We believe that being the hands and feet of Jesus by serving physical and emotional needs are necessary in showing the love of the Father. Understanding that “Church” is community and our church body stands for showing love in a practical, supportive way by helping to meet the needs of others.

HotDog and Prayer Outreach team

One way of meeting the needs of our community is with our Hotdogs and Prayer Outreach Team. This Dream Team is lead by Keith and Maryleigh Bucher, who hosted Hotdog Thursdays at their house for six years for local college students. They had no idea that God was preparing them for a Hotdogs & Prayer ministry. 

Mission Statement: Through a Hotdog & a Prayer intentional connections are made that allow participants to speak Christ’s hope and love into the lives of the lost lambs and those needing encouragement in their faith walk.

In Maryleigh’s words, “Hotdogs & Prayer came from a cry for the lost lambs to come home. It creates an indirect opportunity to meet people where they are, to get to know them one question at a time, and through those questions, find out their challenges – and then through prayer introduce them or remind them of a God who loves them, who fights for them, who has plans to prosper them.”

Join the Team today to help reach the lost sheep!

We support local needs in practical ways by serving in a variety of areas. A few of these areas include supporting:

  • Local Foster Care Families
  • Be-Loved (practical service for single parents and widow(er) needs)
  • Next Step for Life (Transitional support program)
  • Pregnancy Crisis Clinic (Local Pregnancy Crisis right to life organization)
  • Homeless Initiative Coalition (Serving the needs of transitional services for the local Homeless population)
  • Keep Putnam County Beautiful (Quarterly trash clean-up to bless the land)

We serve the needs across the country by serving the poverty stricken in Appalachia and sending trained and equipped crisis intervention teams when a disaster occurs that needs more hands and experienced, trained volunteers.

We serve the needs across the world by contributing to churches, missionaries and mission organizations that fulfill the Great Commission. A few of these areas include:

  • Supporting Refugees (examples: Ukrainian crisis needs)
  • Bible Schools (examples: Autumn Harvest in Liberia, MEPI in Peru)
  • Missionaries

If you would like to be involved or learn more about our outreach opportunities, please email Outreach@thebend.me