Who are they?

iFace networks international students and scholars with culturally sensitive American Christians who enjoy cross-cultural friendships and the open exchange of ideas. They exist to be an interface between God and the people of the world he loves. They strive to be a trusted source of friendship and help on international students. They pursue such relationships  with the goal of proclaiming and displaying the love of Christ to international students and scholars.

How does this partnership advance the mission of HPBC?

This partnership will help us as a church to foster connections with internationals who are facing the challenges of living cross-culturally.  Through friendships with international students and scholars, we will have opportunities to point them to Christ as we pursue genuine relationships with them.

How can I be involved?

• Friendship Partners come along a university level international student studying here in Greenville. They welcome a student to the area and into their lives, helping that student with basic needs like transportation, extending genuine friendship, and learning about the student’s home culture, while also teaching them about American culture. 
• Conversation Partners help English language learners practice their English in a casual setting outside of the classroom, offering a chance to practice with a native speaker and extending friendship. 
• Prayer Team members pray over ministry requests that are sent in a prayer newsletter. They meet once per month to pray together. We also have “Prayer Circles” that meet on various schedules. You can either join an existing “Prayer Circle” or start your own with your friends and fellow-church members. 
• Occasional Need volunteers can’t serve on a specific schedule, but want to be aware when we have odds-and-ends type needs that arise, like helping to provide or serve food at an event, writing birthday cards for students, or assembling “Welcome Bags.”
• All volunteers must go through our general training session. 

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Who are they?

Lifeline Children’s Services exists to equip the Body of Christ to manifest the gospel to vulnerable children, so that these children and their communities are transformed by the gospel and are making disciples.

How does this partnership advance the mission of HPBC?

This partnership will help us as a church to demonstrate the love of Christ to some of the most vulnerable in our community.

Who are they?

Piedmont Women’s Center (PWC) is a trusted provider of reproductive health care serving the upstate of South Carolina and surrounding areas. Their involvement with professional community partners enables them to provide free services (laboratory quality pregnancy testing, pregnancy consultations, and limited OB ultrasounds) at three locations in the Upstate.

How does this partnership advance the mission of HPBC?

Partnership with PWC will enable members of HPBC (both women and men) to be involved in pointing clients to Jesus during one on one conversations. Further, it will enable other members of our church to support that important work “behind the scenes” through various tangible acts of service (e.g. work on or around PWC buildings, baby showers, etc.).

How can I be involved?

• A Client Advocate is a lady who speaks with a female client or man who speaks with a male client that comes to or calls the PWC clinics. This volunteer could also be one who will serve at the Administrative Office or volunteer as a Hopeline Advocate who answers the phones after hours and on weekends. Each client advocate must complete PWC’s Training which consists of multiple hours of educational time spread over multiple days. Additional training time is spent in clinics for advocates, and necessary training is provided for administrative tasks. This training prepares you to work in the clinics, as a Hopeline Advocate, or at the Administrative Office, and gives you a foundational knowledge of PWC as well as important national life-affirming information.
• Lead Project Volunteers coordinate members of a church to partner with PWC and accomplish a needed task at one of the PWC locations (e.g. building maintenance, cutting grass, painting, cleaning, planting flowers, spreading mulch).
• Sponsors and/or Participants are needed for the Annual Banquet (March 7) and Annual 5K (October 5).
• Hosting a Baby Shower is a way that a LifeGroup, Sunday School Class, or other small group can provide necessary items to PWC. Items donated through these baby showers would be given to PWC clients.
• Medical Client Advocates go through the Client Advocate training class (referenced above), then shadow Client Advocates in clinics to learn how to do peer counseling. They help run pregnancy tests, answer basic medical questions, and counsel clients. Limited OB Ultrasound training for RNs is available as needed after a minimum of 3 months of weekly volunteering.

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Who are they?

Miracle Hill exists so that homeless children and adults receive food and shelter with compassion, hear the Good News of Jesus Christ, and move toward healthy relationships and stability. The Miracle Hill volunteer program exists to connect people who have a desire to use their God-given talents with those in their care by offering opportunities that are personally meaningful to them and beneficial to the ministry. Lives are changed by relationships, and although a one-time partnership with them is helpful, they prefer the formation of ongoing relationships. 

How does this partnership advance the mission of HPBC?

This partnership will help us as a church to foster connections with those who are hurting, in need, or in crisis.  Through compassionate service and caring relationships, we will have opportunities to point individuals to Christ and move them toward wholeness, stability, and healthy relationships. 

Current Opportunity at Overcomers

• What: help serve meals and spend time engaging with program guests on a bi-weekly basis
• When: every other Tuesday evening (5:30-7:00pm)
• Contact Steve Bomar if you are interested in serving.

How else can I be involved?

• Renewal Program volunteers are needed to help women who are overcoming addictions.
• Overcomers Program volunteers are needed to mentor men who are overcoming addictions.
• Shepherd’s Gate volunteers are needed to mentor women who have been abused, poverty-stricken, abandoned, or dealing with addiction.
• Boys’ Shelter volunteers are needed to mentor young men (ages 11-21) who are at-risk, abused, or neglected.
• Emergency Shelter volunteers are needed to mentor and care for homeless individuals who need food and shelter.
• Spiritual Mentors are needed to volunteer to spiritually mentor and disciple men and women as they return to societal living.
• Foster parents are needed to volunteer to take children into their home until their parents can care for them again.
• Drivers are needed to volunteer to transport clients to doctor’s appointments and other personal errands.
• Teachers for various programs are needed to volunteer help with a variety of ongoing programs at Miracle Hill.
• Kitchen aides are needed to volunteer to cook for one of the resident programs.

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