Adopt - A- Child

Children's Home Christmas Party

(Sponsored by Crusaders for Christ Class)

November 21, 2026


For many years, we have supported the children at the Free Will Baptist Children's Home at Christmas with a BIG party, including games, activities, lots of good food, and, of course, gifts customized for each child. You can be a part of this by adopting a child and purchasing their gifts. Check out more details HERE and contact Phil James (919-273-2142) or Leah Grimmer (919-273-3792) to adopt. 


Other ways to support this effort:

  • Join with your group/class to provide a fun activity or game. Check with Leah for ideas!
  • Help provide food for the buffet-style dinner! From main dishes to desserts, we need them all. Contact Kim Trent at 919-223-3111 if you can help. 

Caleb's Dollar

Caleb’s Dollar Ministry is an outreach of OFWB International Foreign Missions. It is an on-going ministry that  provides for over 1,400 children in our schools in Liberia, and others in Guinea. 


Contributions and offerings are always welcome, however, each 5th Sunday at Stoney Creek has been set aside to  collect a special offering  specifically for this ministry. Every dollar given will provide meals for children who will otherwise be hungry. What a blessing to give to this ministry and help make a difference!

Operation Christmas Child

Operation Christmas Child is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief organization. Their mission is to provide local partners around the world with shoeboxes filled with small toys, hygiene items, and school supplies as a means of reaching out to children in their own communities with the Good News of Jesus Christ. They ship these simple gifts outside the United States to children affected by war, poverty, natural disaster, famine, and disease; and to children living on Native American reservations in the U.S.


Each year, our church works hard to put together over 1,000 quality-filled boxes that will go around the world to spread joy and the good news of Christ. Boxes are often referred to as GO Boxes because, in addition to the practical and fun items in each box, there is also a Gospel Opportunity in each box in a language the child can read! 


There are MANY ways to get involved, but here are a few:

  • Make your own box! Pick up a box and return it during collection week in November! Boxes are available in the basement year-round!
  • Read here how a simple note in your box can change lives!
  • Drop off items in the monthly collection bins in the Fellowship Hallway & the Pointe lobby! We also collect old sheets and towels year-round that will be repurposed. 
  • You can purchase items from our Amazon Wish List
  • Join the OCC Team at Stoney Creek and help sort, count items, create kits, and more.  Contact Mary Beth!
  • Give financial donations to help purchase items, pay for shipping the boxes, etc. Give directly to the church and mark it OCC to get it to the right place. 
  • Check out this Simple Shopping Guide for Dollar General and shop year-round. 

Check out these lists of items we try to include in each box! 


Check out these patterns and directions for easy ways to help make our boxes meaningful!

Servant Hands International

For many years, mission work has been a big part of the Zacharzuk's lives, from student trips to Ghana, Africa to disaster relief in remote Alaskan villages. While participating in these trips has been amazing and fruitful, they believed they could do more for His cause. That is when the vision was born.  Their extensive experience in construction coupled with the passion to spread the gospel birthed Servant Hands.  There are ministries all around the world that have devoted themselves and often their families to spreading the gospel. Servant Hands wants to support them and their mission by providing building-related services. There is an abundance of need for adequate facilities such as churches, feeding centers, trafficking rescue centers and more. Their goal is to help meet those needs.


Every day there are men, women, and children who wake up in poverty. Not just material poverty, but spiritual poverty as well.  SH believes we all can make a difference if we make ourselves available for His service by using our gifts in our effort to

provide hope through relationships and service.


Our mission is to strengthen Christ-centered ministries, both domestically and abroad, by providing construction, maintenance, and building services for the sole purpose of building hope.


Our church supports this ministry financially and also by participating in short term missions trips to work on projects and sharing Christ. 


Learn More!


Where Love Abounds

Where Love Abounds (WLA) is a non-profit organization focused on bringing food to the hungry, freedom to the enslaved, and faith to the unbelieving. We aim to serve men, women, and children throughout the world by meeting their physical and spiritual needs through education, sponsorships, and sports.


We aim, with everything we have, to bring food to the hungry, freedom to the enslaved and faith to the unbelieving.  This will be a result of our passionate commitments to honor the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to serve children everywhere, and to build a network of partners all over the world.


Learn more!