Help for the Whole Person
A South Carolina Church Meets the Community’s Physical and Spiritual Needs
Community
Offering a New Beginning
Cokesbury has offered resources such as showers, haircuts, computer use and a supply closet with fresh blankets, clothing and hygiene items.
Getting in the Game: Pickleball
People at the church gather for games and, midway through, have a three-minute devotion. When they aren’t playing, they sit and talk. The church uses pickleball both for in-house reach and outreach as members invite friends and neighbors to come play.
Canine Comfort Ministry
With comfort dogs Louie and Jackson, the church not only helped community members recover from the tornado, but also visited public schools, nursing homes and hospitals with the animals.
Down to a Fine Art
One day each year, the church holds their Creative Discovery event where local residents can come to the church and discover their own gifts by trying their hand at various artistic pursuits.
More Than S’mores
What foster kids crave the most is to be shown that they are worthy of love.
Building Bridges to Our Muslim Neighbors
Neighborly Faith is encouraging dinner and dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
Bible Training Behind Bars
Sugar Creek conducts Wednesday night worship services at the unit and offers a Malachi Dads program designed to help incarcerated fathers learn how to be effective parents.
Sharing Jesus in Wartime
BSC is a small congregation comprised mostly of first-generation immigrants from such Slavic countries as Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Armenia and Ukraine. The church had been doing missions work in Ukraine for decades.