For these reasons . . . and others . . . Urban Ministry is proud to be a part of the following Advocacy Organizations:

ALABAMA ARISE
A coalition of 150 religious, community, and civic groups that promote state policies to improve the lives of low-income people.

Contact:
Kimble Forrister
Executive Director
PO Box 612
Montgomery, Alabama 36101
Phone: 334/832-9060
Website: AlabamaArise.org

METROPOLITAN BIRMINGHAM SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS
This Birmingham-based coalition of service providers to the homeless meets regularly for training, referral information, and mutual support.

Contact:
Michelle Farley
Executive Director
2300 4th Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Phone: 205/254-8833
Email: mbsh@bellsouth.net

GREATER BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY FOOD PARTNERS This group works on food security issues for residents of Jefferson County

Contact: Gus Heard-Hughes
Director
housed at Magic City Harvest
3735 Messer-Airport Highway
Birmingham, Alabama 35222
Phone 205/591-3663
Email: angus.heard-hughes@heifer.org

ALABAMA FAITH COUNCIL
The Alabama Faith Council, a diverse coalition of various faith traditions, exists to build relationships and interfaith understanding and to consult and work with each other to improve the lives all within the state of Alabama.

Contact: George Thompson
c/o Greater Birmingham Minstries
2304 12th Avenue, North
Birmingham, Alabama   35234
(205) 326-6821
www.alfaithcouncil.org

ALABAMA POVERTY PROJECT
The Mission of the Alabama Poverty Project is to inspire moral and civic responsibility of citizens to work together toward the elimination of poverty.

Contact: Nick Foster, Executive Director
Box 55058
Birmingham, Alabama   35255
(205) 939-1408
www.alabamapoverty.org


COMMUNITY CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS
Already having formed three congregations (two meeting in homes and one at Urban Ministry) this church believes . . . no one who asks for help should be turned away; it is good to question; none of us is qualified to judge the lives of others; a church isn't a building; and life is supposed to add up to something.

Contact: The Reverend R. G. Lyons, Pastor
c/o Urban Ministry, Incorporated
1229 Cotton Avenue, S. W.
Birmingham, Alabama   35211
(205) 532-0907
www.communitychurchwithoutwalls.org