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Serving Urban Organizations
MOoney Mustangs
Charles A. Mooney, a Pre-K thru 8 school is part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School district. Their pre-kindergarten program has a 5 star rating from the State of Ohio. We provide volunteer support according to need.
Envision
Envision Cleveland seeks to connect people with the heart of God for the city through partnering with local urban ministries and organizations. We feel the call to empower local ministries, see communities transformed and to see the Church multiplied throughout Cleveland. We would love for you to join us as we seek to advance His kingdom in this great city.
Hundreds of refugee families arrive in Cleveland annually. Our Envision team has the unique opportunity to reach people from all over the world, including Somalia, Iraq, Bhutan and Burma. We also partner with dozens of Alliance churches and urban ministries in the city, providing practical assistance, people and prayer to further empower their kingdom work.
T216
T216 is a collaborative, multi-denominational urban and cross-cultural church planting initiative in Cleveland (area code 216). It seeks to create a citywide network and training hub of pastors, ministry leaders, church planters and congregations who are committed to transforming every neighborhood in Cleveland through the power and proclamation of God’s Word, and equipping the Body of Christ for the mission challenges of the city.
Building HOpe in the City
Building Hope in the City's mission is restoring the city to God by developing and linking people, communities and churches. They have a vision for a vibrant Church in the city, sharing the hope of Christ with all people.
Cuyahoga Land Bank
At the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corporation, commonly known as the Cuyahoga Land Bank, we are proud to be the result of innovative thought being put into action and work hard every day to live up to the reputation we have earned as the most progressive entity in the country dedicated to eliminating vacant, blighted properties and returning them to productive use. Learn more about us!
Cleveland Family Ministry Center
The Family Ministry Center (FMC) is a place and a people of refuge for Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood and beyond so that God can be made famous. Founded by and accountable to Bay Presbyterian Church, the FMCpractices a model of mutually engaged partnership with nearly twenty organizations. Framed by an overarching commitment to sustainable community development, the mostly nonprofit-partners of the FMC work in a wide range of arenas including urban renewal, alternative education, church-planting, the arts, international missions, transitional care for veterans, and more.
Located at the campus of the former Blessed Sacrament Catholic parish in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, theFMC provides essential infrastructure support to its partners in the form of sound, collaborative space and a wealth of administrative resources, while additionally housing residents who live in onsite, intentional community. Having cultivated a culture of openness and generosity, the FMC and its partners enjoy a synergy which releases collective capacity, celebrates individual achievement, and births new opportunities.
Scranton Road Ministries CDC
Scranton Rd. Ministries C.D.C. actively contributes to the spiritual, economic and physical restoration of the Greater Cleveland community, with a focus on the west side. Serving in Ohio’s most diverse neighborhood, we are focused on representing, equipping, and investing in our youth and families, and promoting a community-wide revitalization by impacting our neighbors with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ.
Alliance Family Hope
Alliance Family Hope's vision is to rebuild essential physical, emotional, and spiritual assets into impoverished and at-risk families in the southeast Cleveland area, and restore hope to the communities. They have a vision to bring stability to the community by strengthening the family units, assisting children in every facet of their education, provide career-pathing and job skills enhancement for adults, and mentor youths so they can make a positive contribution to the community. We will acquire a facility to serve as an outlet for recreation and training, meeting and strategizing, fellowship and instruction. It will be a place where knowledge is shared and wisdom is acquired, and how to acquire necessary resources is taught so that every family can become self-supporting.
City Life
City Life is a ministry of Greater Cleveland Youth for Christ. YFC reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the Word of God, passion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social involvement. Every day at thousands of community centers, high schools, middle schools, juvenile institutions, coffee shops, and local hangouts, YFC staff and volunteers meet with young people who need Jesus.
Serving Urban Churches
Scranton Road Bible Church
Scranton Road Bible church is an inner-city church on the near west side of Cleveland, on the corner of Scranton Road and Clark Avenue.
Metro Alliance
MetroAlliance is a network of faith communities seeking to unite diverse people with God and one another through love, in truth, by faith, with forgiveness, for community throughout Cleveland's urban neighborhoods, multiculturally throughout the region, and internationally around the world. More information about our values can be found on the about page, and you can also see what we believe as members of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Hope Alliance Bible Church
Hope Alliance's mission is "Developing Disciples Who Live and Love Like Jesus." Their strategy is four-fold. They hold outreach events (Marriage and Family Seminar; Basketball and Summer Camps; After School Program; Free Tax Assistance; Skills Enhancement and Job Training Seminars, etc) and invite people to worship services and to becoming a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. They encourage involvement in the Discipleship Process; Bible Study, Mentoring, Coaching, Small Groups, and Ministry Involvement. Their hope is to help people become mature believers who are committed to reproducing Great Commission Christians who will become involved in the life change process and community transformation.
Grace Church of Old Brooklyn
Grace's mission is to share the good news that God's love brings hope, healing, and freedom. Located at 2503 Broadview Rd. in Cleveland, OH Grace takes the gospel to the city and helps bring the healing that comes through Jesus Christ.
The Piscura Family
The Piscura family live on mission for Jesus in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. And so in March, 2012 they moved there to launch an intentional community on the campus of the Family Ministry Center, a ministry of Bay Presbyterian Church. Our nuclear family is now blended with spiritual family, living under the same roof in a home called Ephraim House and on mission to the surrounding locale. And so, believing the journey has only begun, we’ll praise Him for all that is past, and trust Him for all that’s to come.