Who We Are · Birmingham, Alabama
A well, a word, and a wide-open door.
The Gift Pad began with a simple conviction: that the church's job is to be a well in the neighborhood — a place anyone can come to and leave fuller than they arrived.
LRM, Inc. d/b/a The Gift Pad Christian Outreach Centers is a Birmingham, Alabama-based Christian nonprofit consortium known as Gifted Nation. We are interdenominational — many churches, one Spirit, one neighborhood.
Our name comes from the well. In Scripture, the well is where strangers become neighbors, where thirst is met, where promises are kept. We aim to be that kind of place: a door that stays open, hands that stay willing, a table with room for one more.
Across four program pillars — outreach, education, volunteering, and worship — we pour out what we've been given, trusting the One who keeps the well full.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
Our Mission
Our mission is to manifest our faith through purpose driven, creative, interdenominational Christian service.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to manifest our faith through purpose driven, creative, interdenominational Christian service.
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Our Service
We offer an array of outreach ministries and welcome you to experience a new way of fellowship.
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Our Reach
The Gift Pad services the community through a host of organizations — Gift Corps, Gift of Character, Gift Closet, Bestow Schools, and Teacakes, Inc.
Win Humor Act Create Know
Five things we believe.
The acrostic that shapes how we serve.
WIN
We believe that we WIN the battle between good and evil through service (1 Cor 9:19).
HUMOR
We believe that Godly HUMOR helps believers overcome obstacles (Matthew 14:27).
ACT
We believe we must ACT now to position ourselves for use in miraculous Kingdom work (James 1:17).
CREATE
We believe that we should CREATE unique opportunities and methods to share Christ (Romans 12:2).
KNOW
We KNOW that the Word of God is the road to redemptive living (Matthew 7:15-20).
Five convictions, one well — the acrostic that keeps our hands willing and our doors open.
Our Impact
The numbers we're trusting God to fill.
Counters will populate as the work grows.
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Neighbors served
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Volunteer hours
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Meals packed
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Students mentored
The Hands & Hearts
Who carries the well.
The staff and servants who show up.
Lee Wendell Loder
Pastor / CEO / General Counsel
Founder of The Gift Pad and A Gifted Church; former President of the Birmingham City Council; graduate of Morehouse College and Samford's Cumberland School of Law; founder of Loder, PC law firm.
Adrianne L. Ragland-Loder
Elder / Co-Founder / Pre-School CEO
CEO of Bestow Schools and Win Humor Act Create Know Learning Centers; 17+ years in child and family services; University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Lameka M. Gregory
Lead K-4 Teacher
Veronica Lathan
K-3 Teacher
Clara Ragland
Nursery Leader
Betty Johnson
Nursery Assistant
Kayla D. Snipes
K-2 Teacher
Chef Beverly D. Brewer
Child Nutrition Technician
Raven C. Young
Nursery Assistant
The Four Gifts
Where the mission lives.
Each pillar is its own door into the same house.
Reach Us
Come by. Call. Write. Pray.
LRM, Inc. d/b/a The Gift Pad Christian Outreach Centers
P.O. Box 13545, Birmingham, Alabama 35202