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Christ Church believes in serving those living in poverty while also studying and working on root causes of poverty in Charlotte. Partner agencies or projects include B.R.I.D.G.E. (Building Relationships with Individuals through Discipline, Guidance and Education), Center for Urban Ministry, Crisis Assistance, CROP Walk, Friendship Trays, Homeless Awareness Walk, Jacob's Ladder, Loaves and Fishes, Matthew 25:44 Guild, Opening Doors and Windows, and the Society of St. Andrews. Click to read more about our partnerships with agencies working in poverty prevention.
BRIDGE (Building Relationships with Individuals through Discipline, Guidance, and Education)
BRIDGE is dedicated to helping high school drop outs, the unemployed and underemployed citizens of Mecklenburg County obtain and sustain long-term, career enhancing employment by providing them with career counseling and support as they complete their education.
Crisis Assistance Ministry
Crisis Assistance Ministry serves the low-income citizens of Mecklenburg County, often classified as "the working poor," who are facing financial emergencies and are struggling to meet life's basic needs.
CROP Walk (Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty)
Charlotte hosts one of the largest CROP Walks in the country. Different faiths, cultures and ages walk together to take a stand against hunger in our world.
Friendship Trays
Friendship Trays utilizes volunteers to deliver about 750 meals daily to elderly, handicapped or convalescing people. Recipients pay for meals based on ability to pay. Christ Church parishioners drive Route 25 every day of the year.
Homeless Awareness Walk
The Homeless Awareness Walk a 5 K Annual Walk held in November (Homeless Awareness Month) to raise awareness and money for our city's homeless organizations. Christ Church will have a team of walkers!
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder was founded in 1998 as a job center and compassionate response to the Welfare-to-Work movement and to chronic unemployment in the surrounding city neighborhoods of Piedmont Courts, Belmont, Optimist Park and Villa Heights. Typical clients are men and women who have encountered significant hurdles in their lives.
Loaves & Fishes
Loaves & Fishes provides groceries and support to people in crisis. Christ Church regularly collects non-perishable and canned goods to help stock the shelves.
Matthew 25:44 Guild
Christ Church is committed to making 25 casseroles each month for distribution at five different agencies. Parishioners are needed to bake casseroles and drive casseroles to locations.
Society of St. Andrew
A Christian ministry dedicated to gleaning America's fields and feeding America's hungry by providing healthy, nutritious produce to society's most vulnerable through innovative, cost effective programs. Volunteers help rescue food that is not commercially marketable through "gleaning" fields or sorting food one tracker-trailer load at a time. Christ Church will host one gleaning opportunity this fall.
Turning Pages Book Club
My name is Candace Curlin and I was asked to share my story about my ‘homeless book club’ AKA Turning Pages Book Club. A Sunday morning in August 2009…missed making 8:45 AM service so thought I may go for a run instead. I think God must have wanted to speak to me in a different way that day. As I turned on the TV to check the weather, the CBS Sunday Morning news began presenting a story about a lawyer and homeless man in Boston who developed a book club for the homeless community.
Urban Ministry Center
The Urban Ministry Center is an interfaith organization seeking to serve those facing homelessness and poverty through services including counseling, immediate assistance (free lunch 365 days per year, shower facilities, mail drop, telephone, laundry), empowering ministries, study/education and advocacy. The Urban Ministry Center is a resource for homeless Neighbors in our community.
 
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