GOAL Leadership and Congregations

GOAL is led by its organizers and executive leadership, all of whom are deeply committed to listening to the Greenville community and unifying faith congregations around injustices in our community.

Our 29 interfaith congregations join us in committing to the covenant above: to build a diverse, faith-filled, people-powered ministry together.

GOAL Organizers

Shuntae Goodjoine
Lead Organizer
Abigail Anthis
Associate Organizer

Executive Commitee

Rev. Reggie Garrett
Tri-President

Pastor Reggie Garrett is the Senior Pastor of the Historic Jubilee Baptist Church in Taylors SC.  He is graduate of Furman University, Converse College and Andersonville Theological Seminary.    He is an active gleaner with the Society of Saint Andrews Gleaning Initiative to feed the poor and disenfranchised in the Carolinas.  He has served as a member of the Board for the Greer Soup Kitchen and Board Liaison for STEP and Tiny Homes (Greer Shelter to Empower People).  He is also President of the Black Alumni Council at Furman University.  He is a member of the Laurens County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance and Chaplain of the Baptist Ministers Fellowship of Greenville and Vicinity.  He is Vice Moderator of the Enoree River Baptist Association and Past President for the Enoree River Baptist Association Congress of Christian Education.  He is married to Janine Bennett-Garrett.

Rabbi Samuel Rose
Tri-President

Rabbi Samuel Rose serves as the rabbi of Temple of Israel in Greenville. Prior to joining the Temple of Israel family, he served as associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel in Austin, TX. While attending seminary at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, in Cincinnati, OH, he served as student rabbi for Congregation Gates of Prayer in New Iberia, LA, and B’nai Sholom in Quincy, IL, and The Valley Temple in Cincinnati, OH. He spent a summer as a rabbinic intern in the San Francisco Bay Area working with the Bay Area Organizing Committee and the Marin Organizing Committee. He was ordained in 2012.

Dr. Feliccia Smith
Tri-President

Dr. Feliccia Smith is the Vice President of Programs & Community Engagement at Urban League Of The Upstate. Prior to this role she was a Professor of Management at North Greenville University for 17 years. She also currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County, which partners with EJI to raise the consciousness of our community on the racial terror and violence, which has created a legacy of racial injustice and bias in Greenville County. Feliccia is a member of Valley Brook Outreach Baptist and aspires to be a beacon in the legacy of helping to create a more just society for everyone in Greenville.

Lane Lewis
Treasurer

Lane is a retired Global Technology Executive, with vast experience in relationship building, communication, revenue generation, and managing complex problems. Lane has a BSEE from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Boston University. Lane has served on a variety of Boards including the Foundation Board for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago for 5 years. He is extremely passionate about currently serving on the Board of Directors for Make-a-Wish, SC as the Vice Chair. He has served as a Team Leader for the past three years, Chair of the Finance Committee for the past year and engaging local corporations to invest in GOAL Justice Getting actively involved in Social Justice has been a calling for Lane! Lane has been married to Jo for 36 years. Together they have two daughters aged 27 and 30 and a grandson on the way.

Lily Wood
Secretary

Lily Wood is a native of Greenville, SC, and currently serves on the pastoral staff at Pelham Road Baptist Church. She is also actively involved in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina as a member of its Coordinating Council. After a career in the finance and education sectors, Lily transitioned to full-time ministry in 2023. A graduate of Bob Jones University, Lily is pursuing a Master of Divinity from Central Seminary in Kansas. She and her husband, Jake, homeschool their two children, Elizabeth and Daniel.

Congregations

GOAL currently has 28 interfaith member congregations who are create a diverse, faith-filled, people-powered ministry that addresses the injustices in our community.