Missions
Serving others is part of the DNA of Smoke Rise.
When someone joins Smoke Rise, they are asked to find ways to serve. Smoke Rise Mission is participatory and self-directed. We seek to serve based on an Acts 1:8 model, serving locally, nationally and internationally. Our service is a bottom-up model that will put our resources of people and finance as close to the need as possible.
We serve through partnerships with missionaries and mission organizations. We also serve alongside field personnel from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
Mission Trips and Announcements
Questions?
We are happy to answer any question you may have via voice 678.533.0561 or email hhuff@smokerisebaptist.org.
Local Partnerships
Clarkston
Family Heritage Foundation
Family Heritage Foundation (FHF) is a Christian Ministry focused on serving refugee families and at-risk children in Clarkston, Georgia. FHF offers after-school programs, summer camp, adult computer classes and youth development program.
Executive Director
Bennett Ekandem
Family Heritage Foundation
3895 Church St.
Clarkston, GA 30021
(404) 299-7766
Friends of Refugees
Friends of Refugees seeks to deploy targeted theories of change through the 8 key principles developed over the last 40 years by practitioners who have built upon John Perkin’s Relocation, Reconciliation and Redistribution to building flourishing communities.
Executive Director
Brian Bollinger
Friends of Refugees
3895 Church St.
Clarkston, GA 30021
404.292.8818
Partnership Leaders
Rudy and Mary Wilson
Local Co-ops
Lilburn Co-op
Lilburn Co-op is a Christian ministry serving the needs of individuals and families in our area, as well as the members of all of our supporting churches. Founded in 1994, we are an ongoing expression of God’s love in the community.
Providing food, clothing and financial assistance for rent, utility bills and limited emergency housing for families who live in the 30047 and 30087 zip codes.
770-931-8333
lilburncoop.org
Partnership Leaders
Partnership Leader
Mike & Martha Holt
NETWorks
A Cooperative Christian Ministry Serving the Northlake, Embry Hills & Tucker areas
NETWorks walks alongside our neighbors to help educate, equip and empower them to lead financially independent, healthy lives. Our goal is to lay the foundation for good financial goal setting and planning in the areas of spending, giving thrift, debt and risk.
770-939-6454
www.networkscoop.org
Partnership Leaders
Partnership Leader
Mike & Martha Holt
Partnership Leaders
Partnership Leader
Mike & Martha Holt
Edgewood Church
In our journey together, our values are things that keep us moving towards the center, towards living with Jesus as Lord, towards living into the Dream of God. All of our values are interrelated – they are all dependent on each other and work together to move us towards our center.
Edgewood Church is a church plant in the Edgewood neighborhood of Atlanta, desiring to be a church that serves their community, promoting reconciliation of people to each other and people to God.
Co-Pastors
Partnership Leaders
Partnership Leader
Charlie Scott
Partnership Leader
Colin Harris
Domestic Partnerships
The purpose of God’s Appalachian Partnership, Inc.(GAP) is to meet the spiritual and physical needs of people in Appalachia by: 1. Meeting the person on the level of spiritual need so that they will grow into the person God created them to be and share that with others. 2. Meeting the physical needs through food, clothing housing and other areas essential to wellness in an effort to promote personal responsibility. 3.Meeting the personal development need through special training which enhances their economic potential of the individual and the community as a whole.
At the beginning of 2010 GAP began a transition from a needs based to an asset-based community development ministry. Essentially, this means we have moved away from mostly distributing resources as the primary way of building relationships and meeting community needs. We are now working to build relationships to discover the potential that already is in the community to meet its own needs.
GAP Executive Director
John Morris
Men's Partnership & Trip Leader
Bill Blanton
Women's Partnership & Trip Leader
New York City
SRBC supports Metro Baptist and Greater Restoration Baptist with their different needs throughout the year, including the Christmas Store. We lead a week of Summer Day Camp at Metro Baptist Church for children in inner NYC’s “Hell’s Kitchen” area and at Greater Restoration Baptist Church for inner-city youth in Brooklyn.
Partnership & Trip Leaders
Partnership Leader
Lynne Felton
Trip Leader
Carol Garner
Manhattan
Metro Baptist Church
mbcnyc.org
Executive Director of RMM/Pastor
Tiffany Triplett Henkel
thenkel@mbcnyc.org
Brooklyn
Greater Restoration Baptist Church
Visit Greater Restoration online here
Pastor Ken Bogan
kenbogan@aol.com
International Partnerships
HOI
Nicaragua
In partnership with HOI, we send teams to Nicaragua to improve the spiritual, physical, educational, and economic development for the people. Through programs of health, education and community development, partnerships are formed with the people of Nicaragua which promote dignity, mutual cooperation and self-sufficiency.
Honduras
In partnership with HOI, we send teams to Honduras. SRBC is dedicated to improve the spiritual, physical, educational, and economic development for the people in the Olancho province of Central Honduras.
HOI
HOI is not primarily a relief organization (i.e. an organization that provides assistance after natural disasters). Instead, we work long-term in communities, empowering them to reach their full potential, and use short-term volunteer mission trip teams to accomplish long-range goals. HOI has a rich history in communities of Central America using an integrated approach that includes education, medical care, agriculture, facility construction and spiritual development. By investing in communities over decades, we strive to see permanent and total transformation.
Partnership Leaders
Partnership Leader/Trip Leader
Deb Leamon
Partnership Leader
Page Fulgham
Tijuana
We work to meet the spiritual & physical needs of the desperate needs of God’s people in the barrios of the city of Tijuana, Mexico.
- Lead VBS for hundreds of children
- Construction projects at the ministry, as well as, working on new and existing homes in the area
- Painting houses of church families
- Prepare and distribute food and clean water to families
- Fellowship and pray with members of the community
- Participate in Sunday & Thursday worship
We participate with children from the church in fun outings that they otherwise would never get to do (a movie; a day at the beach; a trip to McDonald’s, etc.)
Centro Shalom
Centro Shalom is a mission that serves the poor community of Miramar in Tijuana, Mexico, assisting children and ministering to families, sharing the good news of Jesus Christ.
Salvadore “Chava” Suazo, Pastor
710 E. San Ysidro Blvd. A-1377
shalomcenter@hotmail.com
San Ysidro, CA 92173
centroshalomtijuana.com
Partnership & Trip Leaders
Partnership Leader
Roy Vreeland
Trip Leader
Gary Prophitt
Providing food and educating over 2,700 school children
The mission and purpose of African Children’s Mission is to reach out to children in destitute circumstances, with food, care, and with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We strive to enable them to grow and develop in a secure environment. Christian values and principles are the foundation of our ministry and programs. Our goal is to guide children into a responsible, productive life, and discipling them through word and example.
African Children's Mission
ACM exists to glorify God by providing Christ-centered support to people living in the Nakasongola District of Uganda and in Meru County, Kenya. For over two decades we have invested in these areas, living in the communities we serve. Through the dedication of time and resources from many people like you, the resilience and pride of the people we work with, and God’s grace, our communities are being transformed for Christ, and we are watching some of our earliest sponsored children lead organizations, graduate from universities, and choose marriage and family for their lives. This is so encouraging as we continue to invest in long-term care and deep discipleship for His glory.
Partnership & Trip Leader
Trip/Partnership Leader
Wilson Echols
Other Missions Opportunities
Disaster Restoration
Our disaster restoration team springs into action to help families rebuild after major disasters. In the past, we have helped families in Gulport, MS and Baton Rouge, LA after Hurricane Katrina, and supplied labor, materials, and hope for people in North Alabama and North Georgia, after tornadoes.
Contact Person
Jim Myrick
Family Mission Trip
Trip Leader
Teri Moore
Youth Mission Opportunities
Sing & Serve
The Youth of Smoke Rise Baptist Church rotate singing and serving locally, stateside, and internationally each summer. This summer, the Youth served here in Atlanta.
Passport Choices
Each summer the Youth of Smoke Rise Baptist Church attend Passport Choices where they have the opportunity to explore their God-given gifts by serving around Greensboro, NC.
Serving Smoke Rise Baptist Church
Joseph Project
The Joseph Project assists SRBC members with minor home repairs and provides professional referrals.
Stitchers
Nancy’s Heart Stitchers create handmade quilts for children at the time of the dedication, when one quilt is given to the child being dedicated and one quilt is sent to a child in an orphanage in the Ukraine. Quilts are also created and sent to members who are sick and need to be “wrapped in God’s love.”
Other Missional Support
Georgia Baptist Children’s Home
McAfee School of Theology
Developmental Disabilities Ministries
CBF Field Personnel
