Ministries and Outreach

Mt. Washington Baptist Daycare
    The church daycare has been in operation for over 25 years, reaching out to the community with care and Grace. Downstairs in our main building, we provide tender loving care for infants of six weeks all the way up to kids age five (and up to age 12 in our summer care program.) We provide a Christian curriculum, dedicated teachers and a clean, safe facility. The center is also developing a before-school/after-school program to serve the Mt. Washington/Anderson Township area. Stop on in to see us, or click here to visit our Website!

 Mt. Washington Baptist Preschool
    The church also operates a preschool center for parents on the go!

Wednesday Night Dinner
    Every other Wednesday night from September to April, we serve up a hot meal at a reasonable price for our interested members, local seniors, and anyone who wants to stop in and get to know us. The dinner costs $6.00 per person (nine-years and over), $2.50 per child (from two-years to eight-years) and is a maximum of $15.00 per family.  First time visitors and kids under two eat free.  Dinner begins at approximately 6:00pm. It is followed by a prayer and praise session, and may have small group meetings on a variety of family and faith issues. Childcare is provided for preschool children and infants, with "Pioneer Club" for younger kids and our Youth Director's regular fun for teens. If you would like to get to know the church and have a good meal as well, be sure and make reservations by phone to the office at (513) 231-4445.  Alternating Wednesdays is usually an old-fashioned church pot-luck...bring something to share!

 The Backdoor Youth Ministry
    The basement of the church office houses the "Backdoor", our youth-space, which is often populated by food, fun, assorted youth events, hosted by various families in the congregation. Typical youth activities have included service projects, mission trips to England and the American Southwest, church camp, Ichthus outdoor rock concerts, Youth Sunday, camping and canoeing, Kings Island, Reds games, the "Jello Jump", ski trips...you never know what the youth will be up to next! Our new youth director should have some events on this site soon! 

Back of the Track Ministries
    If you say "race track", you may think of sleek horses, brightly-clad jockeys and the glory of the "winner's circle." But we can often forget those on the "back of the track," the people who care for the horses. The church supports track Chaplain Forrest Casey, and his is a wonderful ministry. Rev. Casey brings both donations and the Word to his growing congregation at the track. Men, women and children all benefit from his powerful witness. The track is an environment where addictions and trouble of all kinds abound, and we are blessed to be able to have him there reaching out and spreading the Word.
   Rev. Casey operates the "Chaplain's Pantry" project, to help feed the working poor at the track, and the "Chaplain's Closet," bringing additional clothes to the workers. He is also working on a "Mission Within the Mission" trip to the slums of Jamaica, taking care packages for those in need. His wife is developing a special Women's Ministry for racetrack women. 
   Mt. Washington Baptist also hosts several "potluck suppers" at in the work area of Riverdowns during the summer racing season to fill bellies and change hearts with the Good News of God's personal love. 
 
Annual Vacation Bible School
   Once a year, the church sponsors a one-week Vacation Bible School as an outreach to the community. For those five weekdays, we provide food and fun to neighborhood kids, and everyone at the church pitches in to spread the Good News in a way that these children can understand. It is an important outreach, and can lead to bringing entire families into the church.
    We're going to the wild, wild West for VBS this year so get your boots and lassos and come join us.  We will be gathering the week of June 18-22.  Please make note of the date because it is a little later than we normally have Bible school.  Plans are already in place for a great week! We are planning some surprises for the week!  Invite your little cowpoke friends and neighbors to join us from 9-noon each day.  Children must be at least 3 years old and potty trained to join us.  We take children up through entering the 6th grade. 
    At Vacation Bible  School every morning the children will join us at Avalanche Ranch to learn something new about God:  God is real, God is with us, God is strong,God is awesome, God is in charge.  The morning will include stations at the Sing and Play Stampede, Cowpoke Crafts & Missions, Chadders’s Wild West Theater, Chuck Wagon Chow, Horseplay Games, Wild Bible Adventures, and Showtime Roundup. 
     How do you get signed up, you ask?
     Mark you calendars for June 17 at 6:30 when we will have our Pre-registration/Ice Cream Social.  Parents will have a chance to register their children for Bible School while enjoying ice cream. 
 

S.E.M. Food Pantry
    The Southeastern Ecumenical Ministry is a alliance of Cincinnati churches with a mission for missons, and one of their important outreach programs is the SEM Food Pantry. Here they fill empty boxes with donated food, in order to reach out and sustain those who need help to survive. This past year, the Food Pantry distributed food and financial assistance to 1,742 needy families in Eastern Hamilton and western Clermont counties, including 53 families who received Christmas baskets. We thank Irma Flickner, the church's long time representative to this important ministry, for her hard work and dedication to SEM. 

American Baptists Women’s Ministries
   The ABW group meets to spread the Good News, locally and around the world, by helping the needy. In the past, they have helped make bandages and surgical masks for the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the Overseas White Cross program. They have collected Christmas gifts for the children at Bethany House homeless services, helped fund Connections, a counseling resourse for abuse survivors, and worked to help get new equipment for Rainbow Acres, a center for the handicapped in Verde Valley, Arizona. This past year they crocheted afghan blankets and baby sweaters for the needy, and also made a beautiful baby quilt for a newborn in the church family.

 Missions Board
    The Board of Missions coordinates outreach projects for the church (including the Back of the Track, above) and oversees our support for local, national, and international missions projects. Here's some of the groups we have funded in the past:
 
 

• Matthew 25 Ministries takes surplus, overages, scraps and used products from American industry and ships it across the world to help the poor. Donated air shipments have carried over 3 million pounds of donated supplies to Nicaragua, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, South Africa, the Former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the American Indians in Western U.S. and Appalachia.
• The Drop-In Center operates two large separate dorms for as many as 250 homeless men and women, and helps with food, clothes, showers, counseling, referrals, advocacy, first aid and medical screening for those poor souls. They operate a six-month alcohol and drug treatment program for 20 men, and help locate employment for their graduates. Full Circle, a women’s counseling program, helps provide alcohol and drug counseling, education, training and skill development for homeless women struggling to survive. 
• Northern Baptist Seminary works to prepare leaders who will faithfully serve Jesus Christ with Evangelical passion and missionary skills in Biblically-grounded and culturally relevant ministries. They educate the faithful for leadership of our churches who will be personally whole and spiritually mature, biblically grounded and theologically competent, pastoral, evangelistic and prophetic. 
• Camp Kirkwood is an American Baptist retreat campground, with lodge and beautiful lake in a pastoral setting. 
• Murrow Indian Children's Home is a residential facility in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for American Indian children up to 18 years of age who are unable to live with their families. A safe place for children who have nowhere to go, the Home does not house delinquent children or those with criminal behavior.
• Student Venture is the high school and junior high ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ and since 1966, has been reaching out to teenagers nationally with more than 600 full-time staff, Student Venture affiliates, and local community volunteers. Our local Student Venture is based in Clifton.
• Changing Faces is a program of volunteer medical personel who travel the world fixing cleft pallate's for the poor.
• Judson Village was founded in 1946 as the Baptist Home and Center, Judson Village Retirement Community sprawls over thirty beautiful acres in the heart of Western Hills. In 1948, they opened the doors of their Victorian Oskamp Mansion to eight residents. Today they offer twenty independent living residences, eighty catered living apartments and fifty skilled and intermediate nursing care beds. 
• Bacone College is a four-year liberal arts college affiliated with the American Baptist Church embracing a historic educational mission to American Indians. Since their doors opened in 1880 they have been serving students from all regions, nations and walks of life. Bacone is the oldest college of continuous education in the State of Oklahoma.
• City Gospel Mission has been hard at work for over 70 years, lending a hand and the Good News to anyone in need. They provide breakfast/dinner, 365 days/year for men, women and children; overnight shelter in men's dormitory; regular and emergency clothing distribution; nightly chapel services; women's discipleship-residential treatment program; men's discipleship-residential treatment program; Christmas Store and holiday food baskets; emergency food baskets; counseling; education (GED); job readiness training; evangelism and discipleship.
• City CURE is a Christ-based family ministry to the inner city. The CURE seeks to bring hope to urban teens and kids, to "break the cycle of urban dispair" though programs and assitance that includes Jesus Christ. For more than thirty years, the CURE has shown inner-city kids love, guidance, and spiritual support. They take no government or United Way funding, relying on churches and private donation to do their vital work. 
• The Tin Roof Foundation helps the desparately poor in Nicaragua. In 1990, visiting Al and Charlene Meyer saw for themselves the poverty and grief that curse the children of that poor land. Today, the Tin Roof Foundation helps supply food, medical care, and business development that can make the difference to the poor. And 100% of donated money goes to the people of Nicaaragua.