Mission Partners
Shades Crest associates with many other organizations not listed in this profile through various means, such as financial giving, material goods, and volunteer services.
Alabama Baptist Children’s Home
ABCH provides campus homes, foster care, family care, college care, and professional counseling for more than 6,000 children in foster care in Alabama.
Arab Women Today
Since 2007, SCBC has supported this ministry designed to equip Arab women with Christian leadership training, trauma support, and empowerment to make a difference in their lives and in their society.
Birmingham Metro Baptist
One hundred eighty churches join in the Birmingham and surrounding area to proclaim Christ beyond the walls of the individual churches to increase God’s Kingdom.
First Priority and Priority Kids
In over one hundred sixty elementary, middle, and high schools across Alabama and in partnership with local churches, First Priority seeks to enrich students’ relationships with Jesus Christ.
Ministry Center at Green Springs
MCGS ministers to multicultural communities with food, clothing, and resources to help those in poverty, both physically and spiritually. Key services include a food pantry, ESL classes, case management services, and providing Christmas gifts to underprivileged children.
Inspiritus
Inspiritus guides immigrants and refugees in Birmingham to transition from surviving to thriving. Their mission is to provide for basic needs, stability/safety, community integration, and self-sufficiency.
Lift Up the Vulnerable
LUV works in Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan to prevent human trafficking by providing protection, education, and economic development to eliminate the exploitation of the vulnerable, provide freedom, and restore hope.
Love Is What Love Does
This ministry is dedicated to enriching underprivileged communities in Dallas, Hale, and Perry counties (located in the Black Belt) with monthly food distributions, summer camps, community gardens, back-to-school events, and an annual Christmas party.
Lovelady Center
An interdenominational residential treatment center for wounded and broken women and children focused on transformation through counseling sessions, classes on spirituality, education, and job readiness.
M-Power Ministry
Their mission is to break the cycle of poverty in Birmingham by providing education, health services, and community support.
Melanie Van Laningham
This missionary shares the gospel and disciples women and young adults in the Middle East.
Neverthirst
This ministry shares the gospel by providing clean water through the latest water technology, sanitation, and health programs to the unreached.
Pathways Professional Counseling
This ministry partners with the Alabama Baptist Children’s Home to provide the needed counseling for children and families in the foster care system.
Refuge and Hope
This ministry provides refuge to the people of Uganda and Central Africa who have been displaced by war, famine, and conflict.
Sowing Seeds of Hope
Their mission is to improve the quality of life and work in Perry County, Alabama, one of the poorest counties in the state.
Wellhouse Ministry
This Birmingham ministry seeks to honor God by rescuing and providing a safe and trusted place for female victims of human trafficking. The 24-hour shelter, residential, and therapeutic programs offer medical, spiritual, mental, and emotional care.
Worldwide Word
This ministry shares the gospel in Eastern Europe through the help of prayer, financial support, and mission teams.