MISSIONS
SERVING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER
Sardis is a congregation called to minister to those in need. If you want to help make a difference in Charlotte, or across the world, you will have opportunities to choose from.
You can walk in our city’s CROPWalk or sponsor a walker. CROP Walk helps fight hunger locally and globally. You may choose to support our Goodness Groceries ministry which helps stock a food pantry and support a lunch program for a nearby Title I school.
There are numerous opportunities to serve those in need through our Baptist partners – the Alliance of Baptists and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship – and our local ecumenical partners – Crisis Assistance Ministry, Urban Ministries Center, Loaves & Fishes and HOPE Chapel.
We periodically offer opportunities to support additional local and global missional programs.
Each fall an intergenerational group from Sardis participates in the Greater Charlotte Crop Hunger Walk. This walk helps feed hungry people in Charlotte and the world!
Loaves & Fishes is a non-profit organization that provides food for the poor in our city. They work in partnership with Crisis Assistance and other social ministries in Charlotte. We support Loaves & Fishes not only by including designating funds for them as part of our budgeted mission partners but also by holding annual food drives.
Crisis Assistance Ministry is the largest Christian ministry to the poor in our city. Their vision and purpose is to advocate for and provide assistance for those people within our community in financial crisis, helping them to move toward self-sufficiency. Started by the former Charlotte Clergy Association, Crisis Assistance provides funds to those in need in our community. We support Crisis Assistance Ministry by designating them as one of our budgeted mission partners.
Hope Chapel is a ministry to homeless persons in the uptown area. Sardis supports it through a partnership we have with a handful of churches in the United Baptist Association. The chapel is located just off North Tryon Street. Each Sunday people experiencing homelessness gather for coffee and donuts. Clothing and toiletries are made available. Around 8 AM a worship service is held. For many homeless persons, Hope Chapel has become their church.
MeckMIN (Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network) promotes interfaith collaboration to foster understanding, compassion and justice. They envision a community that lives by the highest values and core virtues of its rich faith traditions and respects the dignity of every person.
Goodness Groceries is a ministry started by a young member of Sardis Baptist Church who recognized a need for food and grocery supplies among fellow students at her secondary school. We collect items and funds to provide school supplies, stock a food pantry, and support a lunch program for students who are without food.