MISSIONS AND OUTREACH
At Southridge Church we want to be a church that our community can't live without. We have a heart to impact people's lives both locally and globally. We have multiple local and global partnerships that we work with throughout the year. Some of those include may include local, national and international efforts as listed below.
Local:
- Recovery Point of Charleston through Recovery Warriors
- Impact Schools - feeding families over Christmas break through food boxes and partnering with local schools for other various needs throughout the year
- Ronald McDonald House - collecting pop tabs to donate
- Bread of Life Food Pantry - volunteering at Davis Creek and sending supplies occasionally to them.
- UC Football Team - Erica Bodker helps to facilitate sending snacks with the team for away games, and serving meals on home game weeks.
National:
- Dream Center of NYC - teams may travel to and work closely with the Dream Center
International:
- Kids Around the World - through this organization we sponsor a Hope Zone in Ecuador. We partner with Kids Around the World to bring hope to Las Chacras through food, story and play. Story is what takes place weekly at their Kids Club in which trained teachers disciple kids through the Word of God. Food is a food distribution program in which kids are signed up for Kids Club and receive their meals to take home from there. We, as a church, collect the funds for these meals as well as pack these meals to be sent. Play will be the next phase of this program, where we will raise the funds for a playground to be built in Las Chacras, and send a team down to help install it as well.
- Compassion International - We have partnered with Compassion International to sponsor children in the specific region of Tanzania