Local Outreach
Our local impact strategy focuses on partnerships with local organizations that strive to raise up our brothers and sisters in Kalamazoo. Through these combined efforts, we will have the opportunity to help local schools, inter-city missions, charity organizations, and other local outreach initiatives in Kalamazoo and the surrounding areas. We will be providing both financial support and volunteer assistance in order to lift our city up and shine a light in the darkness that has prevented others from seeing God’s goodness.
Local Partners & Impact Opportunities
Safe Families for Children (SFFC) of Southwest Michigan is committed to protecting children and preserving families by surrounding them with caring, compassionate community.
Redeemed Rides is a program that acquires donated vehicles that are in good condition and gets them to individuals that are active in their recovery journey.
Ministry Focus: Evangelism, Discipleship, Mercy Ministry, Medical Ministry
Location: Kalamazoo, Battle Creek
Reach the Forgotten has a vision to reach every incarcerated person with the Gospel of Christ
and help them develop healthy family, church, and community relationships.
Kindness Acts’ mission is been to create, facilitate and administer a Christian mentorship program for adults and children to end the cycle of substance abuse and poverty in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and greater southwest Michigan
Communicating through their actions that they VALUE EVERY INDIVIDUAL, Urban Alliance envisions the transformation of urban communities one relationship at a time. They want Kalamazoo and beyond to be a place where every individual has the opportunity to live a safe, healthy, productive, and fulfilling life.
Alongside is a professional counseling ministry dedicated to helping Christian pastors, missionaries, leaders, and their families grow in personal wholeness, healthy relationships, and ministry effectiveness.
Ministry Focus: Unreached youth of Kalamazoo county, Discipleship, Evangelism, Youth Ministry
Locations: Kalamazoo, Portage, Battle Creek
Tree of Life is a distinctive Christ-centered school located in the Edison Neighborhood of Kalamazoo. Their main purpose is to provide a transformative Biblical education to a broad range of children.
The Twelve Baskets mission is to lead the fight against hunger in the Portage, Schoolcraft, Three Rivers and Vicksburg, MI communities by bridging the gap between the need and excess, while restoring hope, dignity, and self-respect to all whom they serve.
Ministry Focus: Mercy Ministry, Rehabilitation, Discipleship, Evangelism
Location: Kalamazoo
PowerUp is a weekend backpack program committed to feeding hungry children in the public schools of the Kalamazoo region. This ministry serves children who participate in their schools' free and reduced lunch programs by packing, delivering and sending them home with meals that they can easily prepare for themselves.
Learn more about how you can get involved in PowerUp by clicking HERE.
Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes got its start in several downtown Kalamazoo congregations in the early 1980’s. A group of individuals recognized that their neighbors were struggling to put food on the table so they took up the charge to fill the food gap. What they didn’t know at the time is that their initiative to lend a hand would have a profound impact on our community. Today, those efforts have grown into an organization that provides an average of 700 people with groceries each day.