MISSIONS
Emmanuel seeks to be a missional church, living out our faith in missions and community service. The missions team provides leadership to the church in seeking ways to make a difference locally, regionally, and globally.
 The purpose of the missions team is to share the love of Christ in our church, the community, and the world through education, encouragement, and empowerment. We strive for social justice, peacemaking, and wholeness as embodied in the person of Jesus Christ.
Membership on the missions team is open to any church member desiring to participate. Emmanuel welcomes any new and creative ways of doing redemptive ministry. Church members are encouraged to make us aware of ministry needs and mission opportunities. Each member is also a minister, and we seek to encourage and support one another in our individual and corporate service.
Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship also partners with a number of other organizations that help us to extend the reach of our own ministry. Some of our projects and partnering organizations include the following:
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Local Missions
Bereavement Support
BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT
"From Grief to Joy" Support Group
This is a monthly grief support group available for any adult who has experienced the loss of a loved one. It offers an opportunity for those who are mourning to discover together a healing path through their losses. The losses will vary, but sharing the experience of loss with others is often the first step in moving through the journey of grief.
Group meets the 3rd Tuesday evening of each month from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. at
Emmanuel Baptist Fellowship on Hwy. 378 (4766 Sunset Blvd., Suite B, Lexington).
Group is offered free of charge*. No pre-registration required. For more information, call
(803) 407-3185.
*Group is fully funded by Caughman-Harnian Funeral Home as a community service
Christmas Without Them
A Service of Remembering (on a Sunday afternoon during Advent) for the community to remember those who have passed on.
joyinthemourningcenter@yahoo.com.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity
Lexington County Coalition of Churches
Joe Shank, EBF Contact Person
Projects:
- 2010 Assisted in build
- 2009 Donated money for materials
- 2008 Assisted in building house
Contibuted lawnmower, yard tools, mulch, hoses and sprinklers, and plants
Christmas in Lexington County
CHRISTMAS IN LEXINGTON COUNTY
Partner: Lexington Council on Recreation and Aging, Lexington, SC
Missions Chairperson, EBF Contact Person
Projects:
Operation Inasmuch
OPERATION INASMUCH (A ONE-DAY MISSIONS BLITZ)
Partner: Operation Inasmuch Inc., Knoxville, TN
Missions Chairperson, EBF Contact Person
2010
- Made blankets for Sistercare
- Made birthing kits
2009 Projects:
- Made blankets to be given to children in the Children’s Shelter.
- Made birthing kits to be taken to third world countries for midwives. Each year millions of women have babies in unsanitary conditions with no skilled health worker available, resulting in more than a thousand deaths for the mothers daily and about 900,000 deaths for the newborns annually. Each birthing kit will help a mid-wife with 20 deliveries. Click here for more information
- Had two water leaks repaired for a woman in Victoria Lakes, then repaired the damaged flooring in her laundry area and bedroom.
- Added cheerful paint and curtains to the home of a disabled person.
2006 Projects:
- Bag lunches for the homeless
- Car seat check/give-away at Walter Rawl Farm (Target group: Hispanic workers)
- No-sew blankets for:
- The Children’s Garden, Columbia, SC
- Hannah House, Columbia, SC
- Nancy K. Perry Children’s Shelter, Lexington, SC
- Sister Care, Columbia, SC
- Painting, construction, and yard work, Lexington Interfaith Community Services
2005 Projects:
- Bag lunches for the homeless
- Car seat check/give-away (Target group: Hispanics)
- Cookies for shut-in church members and for personnel at a local nursing center
- Distribution of quarters/laundry powder at local laundromats
- Home maintenance, construction, and yard work for a disabled woman
- Installation of screen door and gutters for an elderly woman
Super Bowl of Caring
“THE SOUPER BOWL OF CARING”
Partner: The Souper Bowl of Caring, Columbia, SC
(www.souperbowl.org)
Jim Holland, EBF Contact Person
We accept monetary offerings and gifts of non-perishable food stuffs on Super
Bowl Sunday. Monies and foods benefit Lexington Interfaith Community
Services, Lexington, SC, and “Sharing God’s Love,” Irmo, SC
Oliver Gospel Mission
Oliver Gospel Mission
Monthly we serve supper to men on a Sunday evening.
http://www.olivergospelmission.org/
Global Missions
Operation Christmas Child
"OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD"
 Partner: Samaritan’s Purse, Boone, NC
Bev Holland, EBF Contact Person
- 2010 Charlotte
- 2009 Charlotte
- 2008 Charlotte
- 2007 Boone & Charlotte
- 2006 Preparation of shoebox gifts
Volunteering at the Distribution Center, Boone, NC
- 2005 Preparation of shoebox gifts
Volunteering at the Distribution Center, Charlotte, NC
Haiti House
Haiti House
We exceeded our goal of $3,000 and that we were able to purchase two dwellings!
Heifer Project International
Other Monetary Support
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