Mission Partners and Affiliations

University is proud to partner with the following local and national organizations.  If you are interested in volunteering or contributing to any of these organizations, please contact the church office or follow the links to the organizations' websites to find out more information about their missions.

Campus Ministries – It's all in our name!  UBC has a long history of ministering to the students, faculty and staff of Johns Hopkins University.  The college ministry offers a variety of opportunities for students to worship, have fellowship, study the bible, participate in missions, and grow spiritually.  On Sunday evenings there is a contemporary service called The Gathering, held at 7:00 p.m.

Baptist Family and Children's Services – This agency ministers to children and families by providing therapeutic foster care, respite and in-home support. Through the McCormick Together Ministries (the McCormick family is longtime members of UBC), families receive support services. The program is dedicated to providing education and resources to strengthen children and families.

Greater Homewood Interfaith Alliance – This agency's goal is to create a partnership between our area churches and the neighborhood.  GHIA supports an adult literacy project. The churches also partner with neighborhood schools like Dallas Nicholas School in Baltimore City.

Shepherd's Clinic – Clinic operated by volunteer doctors, nurses and other medical professionals who help meet the healthcare needs of the uninsured poor in Baltimore. Medications are usually free of charge and visits are very inexpensive and based on income (or lack of income). If needed, healthcare workers try to match a patient with a specialist who is willing to donate his/her services.  Interested?  Contact UBC for further details!  The clinic is always in need of volunteers and medical supplies – you can make a difference!

Heart's Place  – Winter shelter for men, women and children. Open November thru. April on Sun./Mon./Tues. 

Billy Clark – Missionary in Peru – UBC sponsors Billy Clark – a missionary who works with homeless children in Peru.  Our letters and financial support make a difference in the lives of Peru's poorest children – you can make a difference!

Enterprise Development International – Enterprise Development International partners with various Christian organizations. It promotes a long term approach to relieve poverty in the world.  Its goal is to create self-sustaining micro-lending organizations for small business loans, and provides training and mentoring for recipients. The poor are empowered to create income and become motivated to work for a better life.

Brother's Brother – A non-profit, interdenominational organization which helps in times of great illness or famine. Some of the programs include: arranging to use empty cargo space in planes to get food and clothing to the needy in third world countries. Coordinating with local, in-place churches to distribute needed items in that area. Bring immunizations and medications to the needy in third world countries.

Echo International – Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization is a non-profit, interdenominational organization dedicated to the fight against hunger by helping the poor in third world countries feed themselves. In more than 140 countries around the world they net-work with missionaries, Peace Corp volunteers, and private agencies to provide vital agricultural information to the people living in the area being helped. They also provide seeds that can with-stand difficult environments.

Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International – Through this organization, arrangements are made for teams of doctors, nurses, dentists, lab technicians, etc. to go for two weeks to under-developed areas and provide medical services.  Included in the program is a group called Project Life, which sends children with difficult medical problems to the USA for treatment.

Camp WOMETO – Camp is located in Rocks, Maryland (Harford County).  Property was purchased in 1950 and is still owned by the WMU of MD/DE. Amenities include a chapel, swimming pool, dining hall, conference rooms, and cabins.   Camp WOMETO is used for spiritual development and recreation. It is open all year to various faiths for seminars, summer camp programs and spiritual retreats. Young people, members and non-members alike, have benefited from the camp’s programs through the provision of Scholarships.  Many of the camps buildings are named after individuals who were members of UBC and prominent in denominational affairs in the State of Maryland and throughout the United States.

WMU of UBC – Founded in 1888, Woman's Missionary Union is an auxiliary of the Southern Baptist Convention that seeks to equip adults, youth, children and preschoolers with missions' education to become radically involved in the mission of God. Headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., WMU is a nonprofit organization that offers an array of missions resources including conferences, ministry ideas and models, volunteer opportunities, curriculum for age-level organizations, leadership training, books and more. The UBC WMU organizes mission focused speakers and events, and supports projects like the Keswick Home Bible Study – an outreach program to the elderly that has been in place for 40 years!  The WMU makes casseroles for Heart’s Place and makes sandwiches for Inner Harbor Ministry.  They also repackage medications for Shepherd’s Clinic and make gifts for shut-ins.  Collecting needed items for local school children, food pantries, migrant workers, and the inner city homeless – the WMU is energy in action meeting the needs of those around us.  Miss-A-Meal and Camp WOMETO camp scholarships for the disadvantaged are just a few of the other programs that are impacted by the work of the WMU at UBC.  If you are ready to roll up your sleeves and work along side, the WMU is the place for you.  The WMU at UBC welcomes men, too!

Amy Hardee – Missionary to Pass Christian, Mississippi (Katrina Relief) – UBC helps sponsor Amy Hardee, a CBF missionary to Pass Christian to aid in the continued rebuilding of coastal areas of Gulf of Mexico ravaged by Katrina.  In addition, UBC sent a group of youth and adults to Pass Christian in the summer of 2006 to assist in the repair and re-building of a resident's home in Pass Christian.  The college students sent another group to the Pass Christian in the spring of 2007 to also assist in the recovery effort.  Another mission trip is in the planning stages so join us for mission in action!

The Churches of Charles – The Churches of Charles is an ecumenical association of the following churches:  University Baptist Church, St. Phillips and James Catholic Church, Second Presbyterian Church, First English Lutheran Church and the The Cathedral of the Incarnation (Episcopal).  The Churches of Charles coordinate mission projects at the local level and also meet together for a joint Thanksgiving service as well as sponsor a lecture series during the Lenten Season with speakers and dinner at the various churches.

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) exists to enable the people of God to carry out the Great Commission under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, in a fellowship where every Christian exercises God’s gifts and calling. The mission of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is, “Serving Christians and churches as they discover and fulfill their God-given mission.”

The Baptist World Alliance – The BWA is a global community of Baptist believers that bring fellowship, justice, evangelism and aid to those in need.  The organization promotes Christian fellowship and cooperation, and acts as an agency of reconciliation; seeking peace for all people.  It upholds the claims of human rights- including full religious liberty.

The Baptist Convention of Maryland/ Delaware – The Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware is strategically located in the heart of the mid-Atlantic region. The Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware is organized throughout eleven geographic associations within the two states, and in cooperation with over 490 churches. We are committed to the expressed vision of planting new churches and strengthening existing ones.  The WMU of UBC has a special passion for working through the migrant program and inner harbor ministry – ministries sponsored by the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.