Every year Southside co-sponsors a Habitat build in the Lexington area.  The build begins in early September and continues for about six Saturdays.  Builders and meal preparers are needed.  No construction experience is necessary.  

Southside has been serving the Ronald McDonald House for several years.  There are opportunities to cook and serve meals and provide welcome bags and holiday bags.  We also have a weekly Bible study at the House on Wednesday evenings. 

In 2007, the American Cancer Society build its 22nd Hope Lodge on the campus of the University of Kentucky.  Since the first day it opened, Southside has been there serving.  We provide meals to the guests each month as well as provide welcome bags and holiday bags.  We also have a weekly Bible study at the Lodge on Wednesday evenings. 

My School is a non-profit one day a week preschool Southside provides to our community.  Our teachers are Christians who are experienced with preschool children and who volunteer their time because they love children.  My School teaches the basic preschool curriculum with an emphasis on Jesus Christ and the Bible.  Our primary goal for the children is that they have a positive early-school experience and that they feel secure and loved.   My School runs mid-September through mid May and meets only on Thursday mornings at Southside from 9:30 am- 1:00pm.  

 The service team gives the Southside men an opportunity to serve “the least of these" (Mt. 25:34-40).  Service projects are scheduled, the service team is notified, and members participate when available.  Projects include painting, cleaning, moving, building, and various other kinds of manual labor.  

The Healing Hearts ministry at Southside has made it a priority to care for and shelter those who are grieving by following them for a year after their loss.  If you are experiencing sorrow in any life situation, we want to be there to support you and comfort you.  Sometimes holidays or other days of significance in relationship to your loss can be the hardest days.  If the Healing Hearts ministry can help you by encouraging and praying for you, please fill out the form on the back of this sheet and place it in the offering basket as it is passed, or in the boxes marked “Healing Hearts” in the foyers.  Please feel free to ask for prayers and comfort for any situations in your life in which you feel the pain of loss. 

Iglesia is a local outreach to the Hispanic population in Fayette County.  They meet for worship at the Southside building at 12:00 PM on Sunday and other times during the week for Bible class and fellowship.  Please contact the church office if you would like more information.

UK Children’s Hospital, Lexington Senior Center, Lexington Rescue Mission, Church Under the Bridge, Bluegrass Christian Camp, and Pine Meadows Health Care.  

We hope to continue to find ways to better serve those we already know, while also finding new people to serve. 

In 2004, Southside began work with Baja Missions, south of Ensanada.  While there a small group went to Camalu to explore the possibility of planting a new church.  As a result, a team from Southside has returned each year to help assist the church by teaching, building, evangelizing, preparing food and serving medical needs.

Chi Ekwenye, a native Nigerian, educated at the University of Georgia, followed a vision to help children in her native land to have an opportunity to grow with a home and family that loved them.  Susanna Homes became a reality in October 1998 and Southside has been involved since 2000.  Presently, 40 children are housed by Susanna Homes and in 2010 Southside started a dorm building project which should permit room for another 25 children.  God bless all these children and the heart of Chi who loves like Jesus.

In 2004, Mark and Debbie Van Dyke left Southside to go to the Philippines on a temporary job assignment.  They found immediate opportunities to work in the building of the church in Cebu through the Cebu Bible College and church planting.   When the "temporary" job assignment was concluding, God led the VanDyke's to request a permanent one and they have been blessing the Philippine people every since.

Since the late 1990’s, Tom and Sandra Sibley have headed this preacher training school.  The school educates preachers/teachers to go out into Eastern Europe to spread the word of Christ.  The school works in cooperation with Abilene Christian University.