Ministry & Mission

Welcome!

Sunday Worship 10:30Am * Wed night kids clubs (Fall to spring) * Thurs 10AM Bible Study

We are a mission church

Someone told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told someone, who told you and me... 

Big Springs was founded by Swedish settlers in the Dakota territories in 1869.  For over 150 years we have been sharing the transformative love of Jesus in Southeastern South Dakota, throughout this region, and around the world.  

Tim and Mary Sue Austin

The Austins had fruitful careers in education and were raising a family in Minnesota when they sensed God calling them in a new direction.  In 2019 they packed up for West Africa, using their gifts for teaching among the people of Senegal.  After more than a decade in Dakar, Senegal, Tim and Mary Sue now work in Northern Africa.  

Converge Africa

Operation Christmas Child

Big Springsers love children, and they giving them gifts. We've sent out around 200 gift boxes each year to children around the world, and we're beginning to send teams to help with OCC distribution.  This is an expanding ministry that has captured our imaginations.  

Operation Christmas Child

Local Benevolence

Our members provide financial benevolence and countless hours of volunteer service to local programs and individuals.  In addition to the efforts of our members, our church collectively contributes special offerings to meet local needs.

Healing Hope Ministries

A local ministry committed to those who have suffered loss of a child, and especially the loss of a child, grandchild, or sibling. Healing Hope holds space for families to share stories, have hard conversations, and learn more about grief and mourning. This intentional work provides a pathway of hope. 

Healing Hope

Converge Heartland

Through church planting, pastoral development, and missions coordination, our Regional team provides accountability and resources to churches of the Plains.  

Converge Heartland

Incarcerated Ministries

Grace Team Jail Ministry is a Sioux Falls-based ministry whose mission is to share the love of God with inmates and staff at the Minnehaha County Jail. We mentor recently released inmates to help them discover true freedom through a relationship with Jesus Christ. The Grace Team also has weekly Bible Studies at the jail and halfway houses throughout Sioux Falls.
Grace Team Jail Ministry

Sister Church Support

For the past few years, Big Springs has supported its pastor as he assists the churches in our region.  Whether assisting with a pastoral transition, helping coordinate missions efforts, of compiling data, these jobs are an important part of the overall mission effort.  

FBC Hawarden Transition Support

Converge International Ministries

A portions of our giving is directed to the International Ministries arm of Converge, which sends and supports efforts toward the least-reached peoples in the world. 

Converge Missions

Steiger International

Active in over 120 cities around the world, Steiger mobilizes followers of Jesus to reach young people who would not walk into a church.  
  Steiger Int'l

Children's Shelter of Cebu

A passion of a longtime pastor of Big Springs, the Children's Shelter of Cebu has been providing homes for orphaned, abandoned, and surrendered children in the Philippines since 1979.

  Children's Shelter of Cebu

Adams Thermal Foundation

Founded by children of Big Springs, the Adams Thermal Foundation works to alleviate suffering around the world.  Their projects include two schools for at-risk children in southwest Ethiopia, and support of evangelical churches among the persecuted in China.  

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