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

From May 11 to June 1, we are partnering with Sumter Pregnancy Center, a local organization that helps families and children. We are supporting their new initiative called Baby Bottle Boomerang. To participate, pick up a baby bottle, fill it with loose change, cash, or a check, and help the Sumter Pregnancy Center support pre-born children and women with unplanned pregnancies. You can find baby bottles in the lobbies of all campuses. This is a simple and fun way for us to support the Pregnancy Center in their important work!
 

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 month 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, handing out flyers, etc. Registration is now closed for this trip, scheduled for June 29-July 5. 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.

For the last decade, ADBC has helped send 40-50 people from different churches, and across several states, to serve with our mission partner organization, Commissioned International.  These teams help spread the gospel of Jesus Christ by partnering with local churches and other partner organizations to meet physical needs by providing health screens & medicines and through evangelism, construction, VBS, and discipleship & pastor training.

Registration is now closed for the next trip to Honduras, scheduled for May 23-30, 2025. Please contact Travis Pruden if you have any questions. The team leaving in May 2025 will serve at the Good Shephard Children’s Home and Good Shephard Christian Academy that week. During their last week of school (all subjects are taught in English), they will help the kids with their schoolwork, teach VBS in the evening, love the parents who care for them during the day, and do additional projects at both sites.

Serve on the next Missions trip in August 2025!

Commissioned International, our mission partner in Honduras, works with over 150 churches across the country. We will travel to the village of Pacayas and work with the local pastor and his church. Our main goal is to share the gospel with the community and connect them with their church for ongoing support. We will run a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for the children, take on some light construction work, and help with physical needs as they come up.

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Every October, our church family purchases, donates, packs and prays over 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.

Serve with Local Church Planters & Reach People for Jesus.

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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!

Partnering with the City of Sumter, we send volunteer teams out to pick up roadside trash – especially in areas nearest our campuses - to do our part in keeping our community beautiful.

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.

Serving Church Planters: Outreach, Evangelism, Leadership Development, Vacation Bible School.

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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.