Caring community means taking care of each other, serving people experiencing food insecurity and homelessness, and promoting worker-owned cooperatives.
Here’s what we do in:
Our church
- We welcome those experiencing homelessness or living with mental health diagnoses as full members and leaders within our community.
- We fund the work of a Community Chaplain, Rev. Allen Jones, whose mission is to serve, care for, and minister to our surrounding community.
- We partner with organizations that aid refugees, care for the environment, and more.
Our community
- We provide and serve food to people experiencing homelessness every week at the Welcome Table meal, hosted by Mercy Church.
- We built a free playground for neighborhood children 12 and under, featuring a playset made from recycled materials, a picnic table, play-safe mulch ground, and plenty of fenced-in space. The playground was built in honor of Darrell Charles, a dear member of our church.
- We volunteer at and donate to the clothing closet and food pantry ministries of Intown Collaborative Ministries.
- We support Intown Collaborative Ministries, a cooperative ministry that works to prevent and reverse homelessness and hunger in Intown Atlanta.
Our world:
- We promote cooperatively owned businesses that improve communities and creation
- We support the Mayan Intercultural Seminary (SIM) in Chiapas, Mexico. The seminary works with more than 40 indigenous congregations throughout southern Mexico and focuses on economic development, peace and justice work, and with reading the Bible through the lens of Mayan culture.
- We partnered with SIM to provide start-up funding and ongoing support for a cattle cooperative in Carmen Grande, Chiapas, Mexico, which is creating sustainable livelihoods in an impoverished region.