Churchwide Collections

Collection Bins Around Campus

All year round, First Baptist Greenville is collecting items for local organizations. You will find collection bins placed around the campus for gathering donated items for these ministries.

Read below for more information about how, where, and what to donate.

Missions Collections

There are bins located around the church for collecting donated item for three main categories:

Canned Fruit for United Ministries

Canned Pasta for Mission Backpack

Monthly Missions Focus

Canned Fruit for United Ministries

Throughout the year, we collect canned fruit for the food pantry run by our local partner, United Ministries. In September of each year, it also the focus of our monthly missions collection. Bins for collecting canned fruit can be found in the following areas:

  • Reception Area
  • Children’s Hall
  • Fellowship Hall Lobby 
  • AYMC Lobby

Pop-Top Cans of Pasta for Mission Backpack

Another ongoing collection is canned pasta for Mission Backpack, which provides weekend food bags for children in Greenville County schools. Please only donate cans with pop tops. Bins for collecting canned pasta can be found in the following areas:

  • Reception Area

Monthly Missions Focus

Each month, the church collects items for specific organization or ministry. It may be Christmas gifts for MinisTREE, candy for Trunk or Treat, or items for mission trips. See below for more details about our current collections. Bins for collecting items for the monthly missions focus can be found in the following areas:

  • Reception Area
  • Children’s Hall
  • Fellowship Hall Lobby

2025 Monthly Missions Collection

January – YouthBASE
February – Jasmine Road
March – Pendleton Place
April – Greenville Church Without Walls
May – Youth Mission Trip
June – Soteria
July – United Way School Tools
August – Haitian Church
September – Hygiene Kit Supplies
October – Nicholtown Missionary Baptist
November/December – MinisTREE

September Focus

Hygiene Kit Supplies

Last spring, some of our youth met with me for a MidWeek brainstorming session about ways to care for our neighbors in the community. After some great questions, suggestions and conversation, what resulted was a plan to collect hygiene items. We would pack them into small baggies and keep them on hand for the congregation to hand out to our siblings in Christ experiencing homelessness. Later in the spring, my Furman intern, Luke McElveen, built on their brainstorm and developed their plan into a churchwide mission project.

Because of their efforts, during the month of September the church will be collecting the items listed. These items will be packed into hygiene kits and made available to the congregation to be handed out to people in need that they may encounter. The kits can be an alternative to handing out cash and will contain items that everyone can use. The goal is to have these kits available year-round in the Narthex. If you would like to participate, please bring your donations (travel-size containers) to the front office entrance or the hallway outside the Fellowship Hall during the month of September.

  • Body wash
  • Shampoo
  • Bar soap
  • Toothbrush
  • Toothpaste
  • Deodorant
  • Lotion
  • Feminine products
  • Chapstick
  • Socks
  • Floss
  • Sunscreen
  • Tissues
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Bandages

—Matt Rollins, Minister of Community Engagement

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