Love Your Neighbor

Impact by Serving

'Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. - Matthew 22:37-39

Love Your Neighbor is just what it sounds like, an initiative focused on impacting the lives of other people with the love of Jesus by serving them. Below, you will find ways to get involved by partnering with Venture Church to make an impact in our local communities through churchwide outreach initiatives and campus-specific outreach opportunities.

Churchwide Outreach Initiatives

Camp Venture

Summer 2026

A community event, Camp Venture is a faith-based camp that pops up in neighborhoods, apartment complexes, and community parks near a Venture Church campus. Camp Venture provides children with the opportunity to engage in recreational games, hands-on activities, and biblical teaching in a safe, adult-led environment. Camp Venture will take place this June.

Camp Venture is only possible because the dedicated teams of volunteers from Venture Church. To serve at Camp Venture near your campus this summer, keep an eye out for registration to open!

Trunk or Treat

October 2026

Partner with your church family to host Trunk-Or-Treat this fall! This October, families in communities near participating campuses will be invited to enjoy a FREE Trunk-Or-Treat event. Check back this fall to see ways you can serve at Trunk-Or-Treat!

Christmas Store

December 2026

For many families in our area, making sure that their kids have a memorable Christmas can be a financial burden. As a way to serve these families, through relationships with local schools, each Venture Church Campus will invite selected families in-need to shop at the Christmas Store for their child - for free! While gifts are being wrapped, parents will be encouraged and prayed for, leaving with Christmas gifts in tow and a few burdens left behind.

This fall, we will be collecting the items that will stock these Christmas Stores. Check back to view the shopping list or pick up a shopping list on your campus.

We'll also need volunteers to serve on the day of the Christmas Store to make this unique experience possible; sign-up will open a few weeks before the event.

Campus-specific Outreach Opportunities

Food & Necessities

Venture Church partners with a variety of faith-based and community-focused organizations to share the love of Jesus in practical ways throughout the communities we serve. By supporting the efforts of Edwards Street (Hattiesburg, MS), which provides holistic care including food and basic necessities; Extra Table, which supplies food pantries across Mississippi; Blessings in a Backpack, which ensures elementary students have nutritious meals on weekends; and local food pantries such as The Glory House (Laurel, MS) and Our Daily Bread (Wiggins, MS), we help care for those facing food insecurity. Together, these partnerships allow Venture Church to make a meaningful, hands-on impact by meeting the everyday needs of our neighbors.

Supporting Children

Venture Church partners with compassionate, mission-driven organizations to care for vulnerable children and families in our communities. Through our partnership with CASA of South Mississippi, we support advocacy efforts for abused and neglected children, helping ensure they have a voice and the opportunity for safe, permanent homes. We also partner with the Baptist Children’s Village (Wiggins, MS), which provides residential care and support for at-risk children and youth facing emotional, behavioral, and family challenges. Together, these partnerships allow Venture Church to come alongside children in need with hope, stability, and the love of Jesus in meaningful, life-changing ways.

Ministering to Adults

Venture Church partners with organizations that provide care and support for adults facing difficult and often life-altering circumstances. Through our partnership with Stone County Correctional Facility (Wiggins, MS), we offer spiritual, emotional, and practical support to incarcerated women and their families by sharing the message of God’s hope, redemption, and restoration through worship, Bible teaching, mentorship, and parenting classes. We also partner with Hope Clinic (Hattiesburg, MS) , which serves individuals facing unplanned pregnancies by offering free, confidential services such as pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, and parenting education, while creating a space where each person feels valued and empowered to make informed decisions. Together, these partnerships allow Venture Church to walk alongside individuals in crisis with compassion, truth, and the love of Jesus.

Local Schools

Throughout the year, Venture Church partners with local schools in every community we serve to meet a variety of needs as they arise. From initiatives like “Bless a Teacher” to campus improvement projects such as painting, outdoor work, and light construction, we seek to support and encourage our neighboring schools in tangible ways. Campuses also create opportunities to host school groups to build meaningful connections with students. Through these ongoing relationships, each Venture Church campus is able to consistently serve, invest in, and minister to teachers and students who live in our communities.