Each Christmas Season, working with our local Disabilities & Special Needs Board, our LIFE Groups adopt folks to bless with their requested Christmas needs & wishes.

We work with Crosswell Children’s Home in Sumter to help foster children and families. We celebrate birthdays by buying items from their “Wish List” and providing a homemade meal once a quarter through our “Second Sunday Suppers” program.

Sign up to be part of the BEST DAY EVER – BIRTHDAY SPONSORSHIP for a child at Crosswell Home.

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Sign up to provide a traditional Sunday meal for the children at Crosswell Home

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Alice Drive successfully sent teams to work in areas of Western North Carolina. On their most recent trip, they removed and rebuilt three damaged cabins. We are grateful for opportunities to serve people in a time of crisis. We are thankful for the willingness and abilities of these teams to serve the area as it continues to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. 

Durant Children’s Center, another of our church’s local mission partners, is a child advocacy center serving Sumter County. Its mission is to reduce and prevent child abuse and neglect. We serve them, primarily through our LIFE Groups, by helping to beautify their site and providing needed supplies as they seek to serve kids and families.

This new, annual service day is a churchwide engagement – across all locations and age groups – to serve the local communities of each campus in a BIG way! Coordinating with our local mission partners, volunteers take on numerous projects all around town being the hands and feet of Jesus.

The HELPS Ministry of Alice Drive Baptist Church serves people in the local community with needs they cannot accomplish.

Serve on the next Missions trip in August 2025!

Commissioned International, our mission partner in Honduras works with more than 150 churches across that nation. This team will travel to the village of Las Pacayas and work with the local pastor and church – doing evangelism, providing Bibles, delivering rice & beans, doing Vacation Bible School for the kids and doing some light construction work – all in the name of Jesus!

Registration for this trip is now closed. Please reach out to Travis Pruden with any questions at tpruden@adbc.org.

Each year, starting in October, our church family is asked to purchase, donate & pack shoeboxes that will depart Sumter, SC and be sent all over the world to spread the love of Jesus Christ to children and families everywhere. New for 2025, leading up to National Collection Week, November 17-24, our church will operate a drop-off location in Lee County at our Bishopville Campus AND we will build a prayer team specific to this mission project.

Serve with Local Church Planters & Reach People for Jesus.

Part of a 5-year partnership with Columbia Metro Baptist Association, which ADBC is part of, we will serve alongside Inter- national Mission Board missionaries and local church planters to share the gospel with people in central Spain.

Our team will be helping to find and make fertile ground for people to hear about Jesus.

Important Dates:

• Deadline for $500 deposit and application is August 28, 2025
• Deadline for all trip payments ($1,800 including deposit) is September 25, 2025

October 5th: 1st Team Meeting 12:15pm, Room 208 | Loring Mill

October 19th: 2nd Team Meeting, 12:15pm, Room 208 | Loring Mill

November 16th: 3rd Team Meeting, 12:15pm, Room 208 | Loring Mill

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Every year, on the 2nd Tuesday evening of December, our church demonstrates caring for the least of these in our community by throwing a Christmas Bash just for these special folks & their caregivers. We celebrate the birth of Jesus, share a meal, sing and have fun together!

Stitches of Love

Stitches of Love meets on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 10 am – 3 pm at the Loring Mill Campus in the Cabin. 

Stitches of Love is a quilting ministry of ADBC.  Their mission is to be the hands of Jesus by using their gifts and talents to bless others.  In addition to making fun projects together, they also make baby quilts to donate to the crisis pregnancy centers in Sumter, to the young military couples at Shaw Air Force Base who go through parenting classes, local nursing homes, and to members of the church who have babies.  They make comfort caps for ladies who have lost their hair due to chemo or other medical reasons. 

We welcome those who may be interested in sewing. If you don’t know how to sew, we will teach you. There are no dues or charges to our participants.

For more information, join their Facebook page: Stitches of Love Quilt Ministry.

August 16 | 8:00-10:00 AM | Loring Mill Campus | Front Porch

Join us for the City of Sumter Community Cleanup Day! We will help pick up litter along the roads and entrance at the Loring Mill Campus.

The City of Sumter regularly organizes community cleanup days throughout the year; the next one is on August 16. Please mark your calendars and join us!

Meet at the Front Porch of the Loring Mill Campus. That morning, we will be cleaning up along Loring Mill Road and Wise Drive, right near the church.

Future dates- 10/18, 12/13

This local mission partner serves families & children of our community by providing God-centered help and direction. We support them by doing periodic diaper drives and baby bottle boomerang fundraising throughout the year.

Sumter United Ministries is one of our largest local mission partners.  One of the ways we serve alongside them is by doing “Pack the Pantry” two times a year when we ask our church family to donate food items, which helps to re-stock their food supplies.  All these donations are then distributed to families in need in the Sumter Community. 

Our Bishopville Campus also participates and shares its donations with the Mt. Calvary Food Pantry.

Thimble Thursday is a weekly informal gathering focused on charity sewing projects and personal work. Members are encouraged to bring their machines and join. No agenda, no dues.

We welcome those who may be interested in sewing. If you don’t know how to sew, we will teach you.

Working with our national missions partner, Send Relief, we will travel to Camp Rock in Valdosta to serve the kids, staff, and the community October 9-15. 

Registration for this trip is now closed. Please reach out to Travis Pruden with any questions at tpruden@adbc.org.

Willow Drive

Our church partners with Willow Drive Elementary School in Sumter to provide care packages – food & snacks – for kids who may come into school hungry and may not readily have access to food away from school.  This need is met through our LIFE Groups as one of their GO Share mission projects.