Active Missions
Park Road participates directly in these missions programs:
Room in the Inn – About 10 nights during the winter, we provide housing for the homeless on our campus. Volunteers are needed to set up, drive, cook, spend the night and do laundry. Since 1996, the Urban Ministry Center has partnered with colleges and congregations of many faiths to open their facilities to provide shelter and food for homeless people during the winter months. The simple goal is to keep homeless people from freezing on cold winter nights. A greater goal is to provide a more personal relationship to homeless people, at least for a night, and a deeper understanding of the depth and complexity of the issue.
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Uptown Men’s Shelter – members coordinate and serve a meal every other month on Saturdays at the Uptown Men’s Shelter. Volunteers are needed to coordinate meals, purchase food, and serve.
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Supporting Our Schools– Each month of the school year we provide up to 100 backpack snacks/week to send home with children as a weekend meal supplement. This team meets monthly and is always looking for help during this fun and interactive packing event on our campus.
QC Family Tree - Periodically, we will assist with this Hospitality House in the Enderly Park area of Charlotte by providing and serving a community meal and/or helping with Household projects such as painting.
Caring Church Companions (formerly ICU) – Volunteer teams are created, as needed, to provide basic assistance to church members (from home maintenance to financial advice). Volunteers are placed on a list to be called when a need arises.
PRBC Needlers- A group of church members who share their knitting and sewing skills to create items for the needy, especially for babies and the elderly. Prayer shawls are presented to members of the church and the community who are experiencing difficult situations. Other projects include uniforms of for girls in Haiti, chemo hats, and lap quilts for Levine Children's Hospital and Hospice. Volunteers are needed to knit and sew. No prior experience is necessary – we can teach you.
The Alliance of Baptists - Allianceofbaptists.org
Three core values guide the Alliance of Baptists: Theological Home, Pursuit of God's Justice, and Partnership in Mission. The Alliance of Baptists began in 1987 as a prophetic voice in Baptist life. Today, they are a faith community comprised of male and female laity and clergy including people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, theological beliefs, and ministry practices. The Alliance consists of 4,500 individual members and roughly 140 congregations knit together by love for one another and God, who combine progressive inquiry, contemplative prayer and prophetic action to bring about justice and healing in a changing world.
United Baptist Association
UBA is a local group of churches that exists to strengthen, facilitate, and inspire a collaborative network focused on the strategic advance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hope Chapel falls under the auspices of the UBA. The primary work of the UBA is to support Hope Chapel, a church building located adjacent to the Men’s Shelter, which provides Sunday worship as well as meeting space for various other programs. Park Road was one of a few churches that helped to build this structure about 30 years ago.
Counseling Center At Charlotte
The Counseling Center at Charlotte is one of our campus partners. It provides a faith-based environment for those who may be struggling with difficult life situations or suffering from deep emotional pain. For over 40 years, the counselors have been providing compassionate and professional care to their clients. As a “Covenanting Congregation” with the Center, all church members are eligible for two sessions at no charge; the Center also accepts insurance and works with individuals on a sliding scale to provide affordable counseling services.
Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network (MeckMIN) - Meckmin.org
Another of our campus partners, MeckMIN promotes interfaith collaboration to foster understanding, compassion, and justice. The participants envision a community that lives by the highest values and core virtues of its rich faith traditions and respects the dignity of every person.
Augustine Literacy Project - alpcharlotte.org
The Augustine Literacy Project - Charlotte works to improve the reading, spelling, and writing skills of low-income children who struggle with literacy. The organization does this by recruiting, training, and supporting volunteer tutors who provide free, long-term, one-on-one instruction using research-based methodology. Several of our Park Road members are Augustine tutors who work at Marie G. Davis and other Title I elementary schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, primarily with 1st-3rd graders.
Crisis Assistance Ministry - Crisisassistance.org
Crisis Assistance Ministry helps Mecklenburg County families experiencing poverty with life’s most basic needs: emergency financial assistance for rent and utilities, clothing, household goods, furniture, beds, and appliances provided free-of-charge. To help families achieve self-sufficiency, customers are empowered through one-on-one coaching and strategic collaborations to remove barriers to economic mobility. They provide advocacy for people in financial crisis, community education, and engagement opportunities in order to help people understand the complexities and challenges of poverty.
QC Family Tree - www.qcfamilytree.org
QC Family Tree is an intentional Christian community forming relationships and seeking justice alongside residents of the Enderly Park neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C. Since 2005, co-directors Greg and Helms Jarrell have called the Queen City home and sought wholeness with a community marked by lack of opportunity and economic disinvestment. The Jarrells and their neighbors are engage justice with fresh urgency.
Loaves and Fishes - Loavesandfishes.org
Loaves and Fishes provides a week’s worth of nutritionally balanced groceries to individuals and families experiencing a short-term crisis using a network of 41 emergency food pantries located throughout Mecklenburg County. Last year, Loaves & Fishes provided groceries to over 119,750 people compared to 80,232 in 2019. Loaves and Fishes uses a Client Choice model which allows clients to select groceries their family is most likely to eat.
Support Our Schools Parkroadbaptist.org/supporting-our-schools
Park Road is actively involved in supporting our local schools, particularly at Marie G. Davis elementary and middle school. We pack weekend snacks for students, collect and deliver books for children to read at various times during the school year as well as over the summer, tutor individual students to help them succeed academically, sponsor field trips, collect Christmas gifts, and celebrate the teachers and staff at local schools.
Needlers
Mission and ministry effort using various sewing, knitting and other fabric opportunities including prayer shawls, quilts, masks, and felt blankets. They provide hundreds of pillowcase dresses and uniforms for girls in Haiti and Cuba to provide comfort and care for those in need. The group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 10a.
Homeless Shelter Lunch @ Roof Above Roofabove.org
Roof Above was born from the merger of Urban Ministry Center and Men’s Shelter of Charlotte. Now it is one comprehensive homeless service provider working to end homelessness. Roof Above offers everything from street outreach and basic services to shelter and housing. Their services and programs reach over 1,200 individuals every day across seven campuses in Charlotte.
Uptown Men’s Shelter – members coordinate and serve a meal every other month on Saturdays at the Uptown Men’s Shelter. Volunteers are needed to coordinate meals, purchase food, and serve.
Urban Ministries @ Roof Above
Many of our homeless neighbors find a hot meal, overnight accommodations, a warm shower, and access to laundry facilities during the cold winter months thanks to Room in the Inn endeavor. Park Road has been a part of this ministry since its inception many years ago.
Room in the Inn – About 10 nights during the winter, we provide housing for the homeless on our campus. Volunteers are needed to set up, drive, cook, spend the night and do laundry. Since 1996, the Urban Ministry Center has partnered with colleges and congregations of many faiths to open their facilities to provide shelter and food for homeless people during the winter months. The simple goal is to keep homeless people from freezing on cold winter nights. A greater goal is to provide a more personal relationship to homeless people, at least for a night, and a deeper understanding of the depth and complexity of the issue.
Cuba Mission
Each year, Park Road sends a mission team to visit our sister church in Carlos Rojas, Cuba. In addition to sharing fellowship and caring, our church sends over-the-counter medications, school supplies, craft items and other supplies difficult for our friends in Cuba to obtain otherwise.
A Tu Lado
This organization pairs faith communities with asylum-seeking individuals and families in need of support and accompaniment. Park Road has been assisting Ana and her 3 children from Guatemala for the past several years.
Pride Band - Charlotteprideband.org
Since 2010, Charlotte Pride Band has cultivated an open, inviting environment for musicians of all ability levels while promoting the value and respect of LGBTQIA+ people in the Charlotte metropolitan area through quality musical performances.
Next Big Thing - TBD
We had begun a conversation about building a “tiny house” on our property, that would be transported elsewhere to be used by a local organization that works with women who are victims of sex trafficking. That conversation will resume at a later time due to concerns about the pandemic.
Caring Church Companions (formerly ICU) – Volunteer teams are created, as needed, to provide basic assistance to church members (from home maintenance to financial advice). Volunteers are placed on a list to be called when a need arises.