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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This is a new trip in 2025, in partnership with the North American Mission Board. We’ll be coming alongside church planters in Detroit to help with prayer walks, outreach events, distributing flyers, and more. Registration is now closed for this trip, scheduled for June 30-July 6. Please contact Travis Pruden if you have any questions.

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!

The trip cost is $1,500/person, and the deadline to complete and turn in an application AND pay a $500 deposit is June 19, 2025.

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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.

Registration informtion coming soon!

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!

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.

The Missions Ministry of Alice Drive Baptist Church serves by evangelizing the gospel of Jesus Christ and helping people grow as disciples. Register now and join a team serving church planters in Toronto, Canada, as they reach their community for Jesus and help connect people to the local church, enabling them to take their next steps in their walk with Him.  

Registration for this trip is now closed!

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. 

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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.

The theme for this year's VBS is "Live It Out," and we plan to lead up to it with a four-week focus on serving local schools with which we have existing partnerships.

- Loring Mill will focus on Alice Drive Elementary and Willow Drive Elementary.

- Pocalla will focus on Bates Middle School.

- Bishopville will work with The Pee Dee Math, Science & Technology Academy.

To support this local missions project, please refer to the list below for specific items each school needs. Each year, our VBS kids participate in a fun, healthy competition between boys and girls to see who can collect the most coins. The coins collected by children this year will also contribute toward supporting these partner schools with the items they need.

ALL INDIVIDUAL SERVING SIZE WITH POP-TOP OPENINGS

Vienna Sausages

Beanie-Weenies

Cereal bars

Granola bars

Trail mix

Pop Tarts

Cereal

Shelf-stable milk

Shelf-stable peanut butter & jelly sandwiches

Raisins

Applesauce

Fruit cups

Pudding cups 

Juice boxes