Georgetown First Baptist members ‘all in, all out’ for community missions

More than 170 members of Georgetown First Baptist Church participated in a church-wide mission project called “All In-All Out” during the week of July 13-18. Members were divided into teams, including a backyard Bible club team, a projects team, a visitation team, a spiritual awareness team and a community-needs team.

Volunteers worked on 12 houses, where they did yard work, painting and cleaning. The backyard Bible club used LifeWay’s “Agency D-3” Vacation Bible School materials for the Bible story time as well as music, games, crafts, and sports skills and drills.

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The visitation team works hard to prepare cookie deliveries to area homebound and assisted-living residents.

The visitation team collected and bagged home-baked cookies to deliver to more than 350 homebound and assisted-living residents in the area. Children and “Act Teens” made cards for the visitation team to deliver with the cookies. The average age of the team was 78, with the oldest being 90. In addition to the visits, the team hand-crafted more than 200 cloth angels for Tideland’s Hospice. The angels are presented to families at the passing of loved ones.

The community-needs team worked with several local agencies. Members provided lunches at a local shelter, cleaned two resale shops for Hospice and Martha’s House (a non-profit organization that helps women reenter the work force and society after incarceration), and stocked shelves of items for sale at both locations. Additionally, the community-needs team worked at Tara Hall Home for Boys on repairing a greenhouse and playing games.

The entire team collected more than 2,500 canned-good items for Helping Hands Food Bank. The canned goods came from a community-wide canvassing project of more than 1,000 area homes. Finally, the team went to the beach and handed out nearly 400 bottles of water and gospel tracts.

The team’s theme verse was from Colossians 3:17: “And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”

Ron Barker, evangelism strategist for the South Carolina Baptist Convention, delivered the Sunday morning message at the church on July 20.

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The community-needs team works at Martha’s House, a non-profit organization that helps women reenter society after incarceration.