Church Plants & Partnerships

Gethsemane Baptist Church

A beautiful friendship between two church bodies that is characterized by relational interdependence.

Gethsemane Baptist Church is a longstanding, predominately African American church five minutes from us in Davidson, NC. In our earliest years as a church family, they continually and generously met our needs and encouraged us in ministry. Out of that generosity has formed a beautiful friendship between two church bodies that is characterized by relational interdependence.

This has looked like sharing Christmas Eve celebrations, pulpit swaps, church picnics, our pastors hosting events on racial reconciliation (particularly after the death of George Floyd), school supplies drives, and community prayer nights. The Holy Spirit has used all of this to paint a beautiful picture of what scripture calls, “the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:18). It’s deeper than event planning: it’s about personal friendships. If you’d like to interact with the good people of Gethsemane Baptist, please join us at Prayer on the Porch, the first Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm.

OR, go worship with them on a Sunday morning!

Church Plants

Lake Forest Church was initiated by Forest Hill Church in 1998, a church with a kingdom vision larger than themselves. Lake Forest Church Davidson began in 2011 and became a free-standing local church (Storyhill Church) with the blessing of all Lake Forest Churches in 2021. The Elders of Storyhill have also been led by God to become a multiplying church. We aspire for church-multiplication to be a long-term calling and competence for Storyhill.

We are actively supporting these new churches with start-up money, coaching, encouragement, and prayer:

El Buen Samaritano

El Buen Samaritano

Huntersville, NC

UCity - Lake Forest Church

Charlotte, NC

Gateway Church

Waynesville, NC

Mission Partners

  • A2S aims to provide sustainable programs that generate positive change for Nigerian children and their communities. The vision of A2S is that each child/person in Nigeria finds a dignified path to a successful life and is empowered to live out God’s plan for a future filled with hope. 

    Email Laura Knight for more information.

  • Ada Jenkins Center exists to help people in our community create lasting solutions for health, education, and economic stability.  We serve individuals and families residing in Davidson, Cornelius, and Huntersville.

    Email Karen Martin for more information.

  • Charlotte Rescue Mission is a free program focused on transforming lives in the name of Christ by serving people struggling with addiction, poverty, or hopelessness with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens. Their core values are to lead with love, serve with gratitude, and act with humility, with the targeted outcomes of a life without drugs or alcohol, gainful employment, stable housing, and a healthy community. 

    Email Sue Falcone for more information.

  • Alongside Families exists to connect isolated families in the Carolinas to local church communities that champion family preservation and physical, spiritual, and emotional thriving. They provide safe, loving homes with volunteer Host Families in partner churches where parents may have their children cared for temporarily while seeking to restore stability in their lives. Storyhill has formed a circle of people who wrap around families in need in a variety of ways in order to help families avoid entering the foster care system.

    Email Jen Sidden to learn more about how you can become involved with Alongside Families.

  • Bags of Hope seeks to bring hope to Lake Norman and the greater Charlotte area by supplying free weekend food provisions to school children who experience food insecurity. They have served hundreds of children and their families since 2013, ensuring that children have the nutrition they need to do well in school.

    Email Storyhill ministry partner and Bags of Hope staff person Nicole Fiehler if you want to donate to or volunteer with Bags of Hope.

  • Children’s Impact Network is committed to long-lasting, life-changing assistance. At their orphanages in Bolivia and Honduras, they commit to raising the children through adulthood. They provide for all their daily needs until they are ready and able to live independently. In Colombia, we provide more temporary assistance for families as they grieve, heal, and restart their lives. 

    Email Natalie Hernandez for more information.

  • The purpose of the Caribbean Youth Network is to serve as an international mission organization fostering the planting, partnering, and networking of relational, Christ-centered youth ministry so that youth can be introduced to the Gospel and grow into a mature relationship with Christ. 

    Email Jan Swing for more information.

  • The Community Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry committed to upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of Christ to women facing crisis pregnancies through the provision of spiritual, physical, and emotional support.  We offer the following free services: pregnancy tests, limited ultrasound, pregnancy information and support, Hope parenting program, and post-abortion care. 

    Email Lisa Iler for more information.

  • Davidson-Cornelius Child Development Center is a preschool offering affordable care for North Mecklenburg families. They are the only center in the North Mecklenburg area that offers 5-star, full-time, affordable early education and child care with scholarship support for children ages six weeks to Pre-K, thus meeting a crucial need for childcare in our community.

  • InterVarsity is a vibrant campus ministry that establishes and advances witnessing communities of students and faculty. Tracy Mattison Brandon is the Campus Staff Minister that we support at InterVarsity at Davidson College and seeks to bring revitalization to the campus by creating a close-knit community where students and faculty from various socioeconomic statuses, cultures, and experiences feel supported in their spiritual journey of growth and development.

    Email Tracy Brandon to learn more about her ministry, support her, or receive her update emails

  • La Escuelita is a bilingual, science-based preschool. Their mission is to close the achievement gap for Spanish-speaking children in the Lake Norman area. Their early childhood education and family programs ensure that Spanish-speaking children start kindergarten ready to succeed. One of our Davidson Fellows works at La Escuelita, and half of the Fellows serve at the school weekly.

    Email La Escuelita’s director, Pat Shaw, if you are interested in volunteering at La Escuelita.

  • Reformed University Fellowship reaches students for Christ and equips them to serve. As a church, we support campus minister Andrew Goyzueta and his RUF interns as they minister to students, organize weekly bible studies and large group gatherings, and help students connect the gospel to their daily lives. We have been invited to serve the students alongside RUF by bringing snacks to their weekly large group gatherings. This is a great opportunity to engage with the students, as you’ll be invited to stay for the RUF meeting and build relationships with students on their turf.

    Email Amy Coleman if you are interested in this serving opportunity.

  • Wycliffe believes that the Bible is God’s Word to us — something that everyone should be able to understand in their own language. However approximately 1,600 languages around the world are still waiting for a translation project to begin. That’s why Wycliffe Bible Translators exists — to help speakers of these remaining languages get the Bible for themselves. 

    Email Jon Grimes for more information.

  • The mission of Young Life is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. Young Life leaders in our community do that by going where kids are and reaching local middle, high, and college students through relationships and adventure. 

  • YoungLives‘ vision is to reach teen moms by entering their world, modeling the unconditional love of Christ, and encouraging them to become the women and mothers God created them to be. Through life-on-life mentoring, teen moms are empowered to make positive choices, set and achieve goals, and live a future rooted in Christ.

    Email Emily Newton for more information.