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 28 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. Stacey Mills
Tri-President

Stacey D. Mills has been the Senior Pastor at Mountain View Baptist Church in Downtown Greenville for the past 26 years. Reverend Mills is bi-vocational, having worked in education both with the Greenville County School System and at USC Upstate and most recently served as the Executive Director of Greenville’s Racial Equity & Economic Mobility (REEM) Commission. In his 26 years at Mountain View, Reverend Mills has been a vehicle for economic partnerships and community and land development.He is married to the former Jacqueline Burton and together they are the proud parents of Harrison, Kiersten, and Zion.

Rev. Jennifer Fouse Sheorn
Tri-President

Jennifer Fouse Sheorn was called to serve as the Pastor and Director of Triune Mercy Center in July 2020. A graduate of Presbyterian College and Columbia Theological Seminary, Jennifer is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She has served as a hospital and prison chaplain, campus minister, Associate Pastor and Pastor of several congregations. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys gardening, walking/hiking and spending time with her husband, Dean, and their two children.

Dr. Feliccia Smith
Tri-President

Feliccia Smith is a Professor of Management at North Greenville University, where she has served for 15 years. She 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.

Rev. Dr. Mike Hoyt
Treasurer

Mike has been a Presbyterian pastor for 27 years, serving churches in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. Wrestling with scripture weekly to preach the Christian gospel led Mike to ask, honestly, “How am I seeking justice?” and “How are the congregations I serve responding to the biblical call to justice?” He embraces the work of GOAL as a way for individuals and congregations to respond to the biblical mandate to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8).

Rev. Susan Crowell
At-Large

The Rev. Susan J. Crowell is a graduate of both Furman University and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary with a B. A. in Psychology and a Master of Divinity, respectively. She is passionate about social justice and finds joy and meaning in creating safe, brave spaces of connection andbelonging for all people. Trinity’s focus on diversity, inclusion, welcome, and radical hospitality as well as the congregation’s desire to reach out in love to a broken, hurting world continue to energize, sustain, and inspire Susan’s ministry. She enjoys travel (especially Disney World), baking bread, yoga, going for walks, the mountains, books, and spending time with her husband, Mark, and their adult daughter, Elizabeth.

Rabbi Samuel Rose
Secretary

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.

Reggie Garrett
At-Large

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 .

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.