Community Involvement

Community Involvement

Highland Community Church strives to make an impact in and around central Wisconsin and worldwide!   We encourage our staff and attendees to participate in local, national, and international service opportunities.

Feed My Starving Children!  

Highland FMSC MobilePack, Nov 13-15. You’re invited to our 4th annual MobilePack! Registration now open. We will have over 1,300 volunteers pack 280,000+ meals in 3 days. The rice-based meals will be sent overseas and served primarily at schools, refugee camps, and orphanages. Last year’s 295,488 meals were sent to Haiti, Cuba, and Burkina Faso. Last year's 1,315 volunteers included groups from 16 churches, 16 businesses, and 20 student groups from 12 schools in 8 districts. Bring your friends, neighbors, sports team, or work colleagues! It’s a fun, meaningful way to serve locally and impact globally.

Sign up for a 2-hour packing shift at give.fmsc.org/Wausau. It's free to participate, and anyone age 5 and older is welcome. 

Donations are appreciated towards $82,000 cost of ingredients we will pack together. Each meal is 29 cents, $106 feeds a child for a year, $424 feeds a family for a year. Donations can be made at give.fmsc.org/Wausau or by check to Highland with “FMSC MobilePack” on the memo line. Questions? Contact Sarah Hostetler at  or 715-680-9049. 

Operation Christmas Child Distribution and Collection: 

OCC is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief organization.  Their mission is to provide local partners around the world with shoeboxes filled with small toys, hygiene items, and school supplies as a means of reaching out to children in their own communities with the Good News of Jesus Christ.  Highland Community Church is excited to participate again this year! Families are invited to pack a shoebox; include a suggested $10 donation sent directly to Samaritan’s Purse to help cover shipping costs.

  • Shoeboxes and resources will be available for pickup at the Connection Point at all four Highland campuses during the weeks of October 26, November 2, and November 9.
  • Highland’s Collection Sunday will be November 16. Please bring your shoeboxes to the designated locations at your campus before or after the worship services and Sunday school hour that day. This will be the only Sunday that shoeboxes can be received at Highland.
  • If you are unable to bring your shoebox on November 16, you may drop it off directly at the regional collection site during National Collection Week (November 17–21):
    Bible Truth Chapel
    1600 N 1st St
    Wausau, WI 54401
  • If you have any questions, please contact Pastor Andrew.

Operation Christmas Child—For $15, We’ll Pack a Box for You:  If you want to participate in Operation Christmas Child but don’t have the time to go shopping, for a donation of $15, we’ll pack a box for you!  Just make your check payable to Highland Community Church with OCC in the memo line and drop it in the offering or at the church office.  We’ll make sure a box filled with toys, school supplies, and personal items gets on its way to a child in need this Christmas, along with a gospel presentation.  To ensure your box gets packed this year, please make your donations by November 2, although donations will be accepted through November 13.