Free Food Distribution

PBC is blessed to receive food from a variety of sources – restaurants, caterers, stores, etc.  As God provides these resources, we seek to make them available to folks in Poolesville.  Typically you’ll find someone from the church making this available on Tuesdays from 11AM and Saturday from 11AM.  Other special opportunities are shared through email and Facebook.  If you have a food shortage or other need that we might be able to assist with, please read below for benevolence assistance or contact office@poolesvillebaptist.com.

Benevolence

We understand that people experience various challenges from time to time.  Through the generosity of the church family members, PBC is is pleased to offer temporary assistance to people in the Poolesville area (Western Montgomery County).  We keep a supply of grocery and gas gift cards on hand.  If you need some assistance, please feel free to stop by the church.  If you need help with rent, a utility bill, or some other large bill, we may be able to help with that as well.  To request assistance, please click here or contact our office at 301-349-4090.

Adventures in Art Camp

Our God is a creative and artistic God. Being made in His image, we can be creative as well. Adventures in Art Camp is a week where students will get to express their artistic inclinations in a variety of different classes, while also learning from God’s word what it means to live out His image in His world.

Adventures in Art Camp – July 15-19 

Camp is from 9AM-12PM for rising 1st through 8th graders.  Campers will have an opportunity to explore visual arts (painting, sculpting), musical arts (guitar and chorale), scientific arts, athletic arts (soccer and basketball), and even some outdoor arts. For more information, contact Pastor Armal.  Registration will open in the spring of 2024.

Frederick Rescue Mission

Frederick Rescue Mission’s Bread of Life Resources Center serves breakfast and lunch 365 days a year to anyone in need of a meal, including special extended holiday meal times. We’re currently serving 100 meals for breakfast, and 250 – 300 lunch meals.

The Friendly Thrift Shop

The Friendly Thrift Shop in Poolesville has been in operation since 1972 to meet the clothing needs of Western Upper Montgomery County.  Eleven area churches each appoint a representative member to the Thrift Shop Board; these members conduct sales on a rotating basis.  The Friendly Thrift Shop is open for donations and shopping Wednesday 2pm-8pm, Thursday 10am -4pm, Friday 2pm-8pm, and Saturday 10am-4pm.

Western Upper Montgomery County Help, Inc.

WUMCO’s (Western Upper Montgomery County Help, Inc.) mission is to provide quick and friendly assistance to needy persons in Western Upper Montgomery County (Poolesville, Barnesville, Beallsville, Boyds, Dickerson, and surrounding areas) in times of crisis with rent or mortgage payments, utilities, medical or other current critical expenses; transportation for medical and social service needs; long-term coverage of maintenance medicine not adequately covered by insurance, either government or private; emergency and holiday food and holiday toys.

Helping Hands Poolesville, Inc.

Helping Hands Poolesville, Inc. is a Christian volunteer organization whose members are called to help those in need by improving lives, homes, and communities. Helping Hands Poolesville provides services to individuals, families, and also to organizations which share our commitment to assisting the less fortunate dwelling in the midst of our society of abundance. Poolesville Baptist Church supports this ministry in their annual partnership with Rebuilding Together to provide home repairs to qualified homeowners, and invite you to contact Helping Hands Poolesville, Inc to see how you can support them, as well.

Truth and Hope Outreach

Truth and Hope outreach is a sewing ministry to the poor both nearby (Oklahoma flood victims) and as far away as Uganda, South Africa, Bosnia, Kenya, Jordan and Honduras. In the last year this ladies ministry has supplied over 300 handmade bags, baby blankets, hats, bed comforters, and clothing items for those in need.  Some of these places that receive these gifts are ministering under somewhat normal situations but others are ministering to babies with fetal alcohol syndrome, some others have been abandoned in fields to die. Several of the ladies from our church help in this ministry and we are proud to support this outreach in the name of Jesus.

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is managed by the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware and the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. This disaster response group, in cooperation with our Red Cross partner, provides a hot meal (Southern Baptist Disaster Relief cooks it; Red Cross delivers it) to folks impacted by a storm or displaced by an incident. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief also helps begin the recovery process by cutting up down trees, providing remediation to flooded homes and patching roofs or windows damaged by a storm.  While this is underway, trained Chaplains provide a “ministry of presences” to those affected.  Behind the scenes, our Maryland Logistics group provides Administration, Assessment, Communications, Laundry, and Showers resources as needed to an event or incident.