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

Alice Drive Elementary School

Our church partners with Alice 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.

Bates Middle School

Our church partners with Bates Middle 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 VBS Mission project.

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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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.

The HELPS Ministry of Alice Drive Baptist Church serves people in the local community primarily by building wheelchair ramps for those who are unable to do so by their own means.

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.

Our church collected over 1,000 pounds of food during our recent food drive, Pack the Pantry, in February. We delivered this food to Sumter United Ministries from our Loring Mill and Pocalla campuses. The donations from Bishopville will support Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church’s Food Ministries, helping to reach even more people.

A huge thank you for your generous contributions and for the incredible support from our church family.

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.

Every year, on the second Tuesday evening of December, our church hosts a Christmas Bash specifically for these special folks & their caregivers. We celebrate the birth of Jesus by sharing a meal, singing, and having fun together.

We need volunteers to help make this event a success! Whether you have experience or not, you can help as a Greeter, Table Host, Server, Singer, Kitchen Crew Member, or general Joy Bringer.

To sign up, please get in touch with Kevin Buynak at kbuynak@adbc.org.

Help us spread the joy this holiday season!

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.

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.

Partner with us to support the Sumter Pregnancy Center through Baby Bottle Boomerang, May 10-May 31.

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.

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 VBS Mission project.