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Welcome to SWEEAC


The mission of SWEEAC is to provide food and resources to individuals and families with emergency need to support and promote self-sufficiency, prevent hunger and address homelessness.

Our Local Food Center helps raise funds through various programs and initiatives, and we’d love for you to get involved with SWEEAC. We depend on your support in order to improve lives and make the world a better place for generations to come. Join us today to learn all about volunteering and donating options.

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How We Help

Paving the Way to a Better Tomorrow

Providing Food Assistance

One of the main reasons SWEEAC was founded in 1988 was to compensate for the greater Atlanta area’s struggles with food insecurites. We’ve dedicated a lot of man-hours and invested countless resources to this charitable cause, and hope you’ll help us continue this work. See how you can by contacting us below.


We serve more than 50,000 families & distribute over 1,000,000 pounds of food to families in the communities of Atlanta

Community Service

Community Outreach

Although we can no longer offer walk-in assistance, one of our goals is to ensure that the most vulnerable and at-risk groups in the greater Atlanta area who are facing food insecurities are getting food.  In partnership with Welcoming Atlanta, a division of the City of Atlanta, we are identifying families who struggle with lack of food resources.  We also work with local churches and state agency workers to reach those that are unable to get assistance. At SWEEAC we have programs that help families with other essential needs. Click below to learn more.

If you are in need of immediate assistance, please contact UNITED WAY by dialing 211.

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Feeding Children

One of our main causes here at SWEEAC is Feeding Children, an issue that touches many lives, particularly those in the greater Atlanta area. We spend a significant portion of our resources on tackling this problem. See how you can help by reading more or contacting one of our representatives.

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Helping Senior Citizens

SWEEAC has made a great effort in reaching out to those over 60 that are facing food insecurities and meet eligibility reuirements. With the help of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, we are able to help this group with healthy food options boxed and delivered to their home.  


See how you can help by reading more or contacting one of our representatives.

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About Our Organization

For over thirty years, SWEEAC has worked conscientiously to alleviate poverty by providing food, clothing, health and beauty products, school supplies, assistance with life skills enhancement, health screening and referrals to other agencies for services it cannot provide. 

The historical soil in which SWEEAC had its planting is fertile with the faith that played a major role in the process. The seeds were planted for the agency when Park Renshaw, a representative from the Atlanta Christian Council, connected with the pastors in the Adamsville community for the purpose of exploring mutual problems and concerns within the community. 

The churches were passionately concerned and overwhelmed by the number of requests coming from people within the southwest Atlanta community regarding hunger, unemployment and challenges by children at-risk. With the lack of funding because of inadequate educational opportunities and financial resources, these leaders felt more could be done for those in need by pooling resources and reaching across denominational boundaries. 

The first meeting took place in 1983 at the Chapel of Christian Love, then pastored by Dr. James Milner. Dr. Milner was appointed the convener of the group. His appointment was quite appropriate, especially since he was the first to open his church to establish the organization. The cluster started well, but later interest in the organization began to diminish. 

Faith continued to be at work when in early 1985, the churches in the Adamsville Community began meeting with the churches in the Ben Hill Community at St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church. The combined members grew under new representatives from the Atlanta Christian Council with the strength and leadership of Sister Marie Sullivan and the Minister Thomas Walters. The combined members expanded shortly thereafter, to include the churches in the Cascade community. In 1988, the organization voted to call itself the ABC Churches (the Adamsville, Ben Hill and Cascade Churches), and subsequently formed an official governing board. 

The Center was on the third floor of the St. Mark AME Church where Rev. Nathaniel Hercules served as senior pastor. 

As support increased with spiritual faith and guidance, the name of the organization was changed again to the Southwest Ecumenical Emergency Assistance Center (SWEEAC). Rev Frances Bryant served as the first Center Director. Mrs. Vivian Moreland followed her. During Mrs. Moreland’s leadership, the Center worked to be on the cutting edge of providing emergency service to people in need within the community. 

With the coming together and organizations of Sister Marie Sullivan, Reverend Dr. Nathaniel Hercules, Minister Thomas Walters, and Reverend Dr. David L. Wallace, Sr. these persons all served as founding members of SWEEAC with the Rev. Dr. David Wallace as the first board chair. Other board chairs included: Deacon Raymond Lundy, Mr. John Walker, Dr. Gwendolyn Garrison, Mrs. Thedda Edwards, Deacon Douglas Gray, Mr. Rudy Goodwine, Minister Thomas Walters, and Daniel Scott (current board chair). 

Mrs. Ernesta Ingram is our current Executive Director and with the assistance of a cadre of volunteers, they are responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Center. SWEEAC is currently located on Commerce Dr SW in a area deemed a "food desert" by the Atlanta Community Food Bank. The SWEEAC center is supported with volunteers, monetary and in-kind gifts from businesses and several religious bodies, and corporate sponsorships.  It is the support that we receive from the community that allows us to continue to provide and assist those in need in our Atlanta communities. 

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"To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. 
It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God."

                                                                                                                                 

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4445 Commerce Drive Ste A3 Atlanta, GA 30336

(404) 856-0052

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