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 promotes 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.
Website: www.myspace.com/birminghamhomeless

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: Sylvia Crum
Executive Director
housed at Magic City Harvest
3735 Messer-Airport Highway
Birmingham, Alabama 35222
Phone (205) 229-7871
Website: www.gbcfp.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: Carolyn Foster
Executive Director
5712 First Avenue North
Birmingham, Alabama   35212
(205) 591-0700
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: Kristina Scott
Executive Director
PO 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