How we serve
Following Jesus means caring for each other, our collective well-being, and the world around us. Our aim is never to convert or merely evangelize. We want to serve and stand in solidarity. If someone feels drawn in by seeing lives transformed, even better!
You don’t need to be part of the Global and Local Missions team to serve others in our neighborhood. Just text 470-317-6435 or email our Community Chaplain, Rev. Allen Jones, at allen.jones@dhbc.org.
Upcoming service opportunities:
Within our church
- We welcome those experiencing homelessness or living with mental health diagnoses as full members and leaders within our community.
- We fund the work of a Community Chaplain, Rev. Allen Jones, whose mission is to serve, care for, and minister to our surrounding community.
- We partner with and donate to organizations like Trans Joy, Georgia Equality (c3), Intown Cares, and groups that aid refugees, care for the environment, and more.
"We partner with and donate to organizations like Trans Joy, Georgia Equality (c3), Intown Cares, and groups that aid refugees, care for the environment, and more."
Within our community
- We provide and serve food to people experiencing homelessness every week at the Welcome Table meal, hosted by Mercy Church.
- We built a free playground for neighborhood children 12 and under, featuring a playset made from recycled materials, a picnic table, play-safe mulch ground, and plenty of fenced-in space. The playground was built in honor of Darrell Charles, a dear member of our church.
- We volunteer at and donate to the clothing closet and food pantry ministries of Intown Collaborative Ministries.
- We support Intown Cares, a cooperative ministry that works to prevent and reverse homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta.
Around our world
- We promote cooperatively owned businesses that improve communities and creation
- We support the Mayan Intercultural Seminary (SIM) in Chiapas, Mexico. The seminary works with more than 40 indigenous congregations throughout southern Mexico and focuses on economic development, peace and justice work, and preserving Mayan culture.
- We partnered with SIM to provide start-up funding and ongoing support for a cattle cooperative in Carmen Grande, Chiapas, Mexico, which is creating sustainable livelihoods in an impoverished region.
- We partner with and donate to organizations like the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (Bautistas par la paz), the Baptist World Alliance, the Alliance of Baptists, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
