A Special Thank You....
To each church for your generous and faithful financial gifts that support the mission work here at OCBA!
Email the office with your church's missions details so we can add them to our website.
If your church is going on a mission trip in 2025 and interested in inviting volunteers from other churches to join you, we would be glad to spread the word! Please let us know here at the office when you are going on mission trips so we can be in prayer for you.
194 Health Kits were donated this year! Thank you very much to the eleven churches for donating & distributing!
PACE received 70 kits / Samaritan's House received 48 / Grace Home (along with female kits donated by Northside) received 70 kits /OCBA received 6 kits to use for homeless and future needs.
Every Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM at New Hope Baptist Church. All are welcome! Led by Rev. Henry Cooper of Gethsemane Baptist. You may contact Rev. Cooper at whenrycooper@icloud.com.
492 Prisoner Bags were donated this year by 16 of our churches: Neeses, New Hope, Double Branch, Two Mile Swamp, Branchville, Cameron, Ebenezer, Calvary, Fellowship, Four Holes, Congaree, St. Matthews First, St. George, Providence, Canaan, and Bethany. A big "Thank You" to everyone that helped support this SC Ministry!
Captain Buddy Bizzell takes mission trips to Kenya focusing on supplying medicine, medical assistance, food, eye glasses, and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. Over 2000 pairs of reading glasses have been donated along donations to buy Bibles in Swahili to several villages. Donations of reading glasses can be dropped off at OCBA. Contact Buddy for more details at 803-603-2781.
Mission Trip 2024
Give God the Glory!
Ministered to eight churches and communities, 4 food pantries, 7 pastors received $12,240 divided among them. One pastor has two churches.
Who & what went to West Virginia?
51 people, 10 trailers, and 16 vehicles. 150 complete food boxes, 200 cases of extra food, 425 racks of bread, 576 shoeboxes, 40 comforters, 30 new bikes, 81 senior cold kits, 30 extra bags of new clothes, 80 bags and boxes of gently used clothing.
This work goes on all year and here is the culmination of lots of hard work, dedication, and love!
~ Judy Monroe, Providence Baptist Church
GuideStone's MISSION DIGNITY ministry helps almost 2000 retired Southern Baptist ministers, workers and their widows living on very limited income. Almost 60% are widows. One of every four is a pastor's widow age 85 or above.
Qualifying individuals receive $225 a month and couples receive $300 a month. The neediest persons with at least 25 years of SBC ministerial service may receive as much as $600.
MISSION DIGNITY ministry can accept a gift of any amount and nothing is taken out for administrative costs--100% is used to help someone in need! All gifts are tax deductible to the maximum allowed by law.
Do you know a pastor or widow in need? We'd like to help!
Visit MissionDignity.org and click "Refer Someone in Need" or call 1-888-98-GUIDE.