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2016 Wholeness Grant Ministries

The ministries below are some of the ministries that took place in 2016. Each of them was funded through our Wholeness Grant Ministry.

FCC Helps Provide Care for Families Through Innovative Program for Parents and Children

A local organization that serves the needs of families in crisis recently surveyed their clients, asking how they might provide some...

FCC Provides over 4,300 Meals!

Love the Hungry is a Louisville based non-profit that seeks to provide nutrient rich meals that help to alleviate starvation and...

FCC Grant Provides Socks for Homeless Shelter

For 30 years St. John Center for Homeless Men has been providing shelter, care, and resources in downtown Louisville. St John Center is...

First Christian Helps Empower Families to Reach Greater Independence

Sometimes you just need a champion in your corner! Shiny Varghese, the Family Advocate at Eastern Area Community Ministries (EACM) is...

FCC Joins Hands with our Muslim Neighbors to Serve Families in Need

As part of our efforts to build bridges of peace with our Muslim neighbors, an FCC Wholeness Grant was given to help provide a sheep for...

FCC Louisville Grant Helps Provide Safe Space for LGBTQ+ Teens

Teenage members of the LGBTQ+ community face many struggles as they seek to find their way in life. These struggles often lead to...

FCC Louisville Partners with My Dog Eats First

Through his volunteer work at My Dog Eats First, church member Joseph Bianca found an opportunity to provide healing to an often...

FCC Grant Funds Ministry Outings for Those on Fixed Incomes

The SAGES (Sensational Adults Going Everywhere!) is a group of over fifty members and friends of First Christian Church of Louisville...

FCC Children and Their Families Provide Care Items for the Homeless

On February 7, 2016, children of First Christian Church and their families gathered after the 11am service and put together care items...

First Christian Helps Provide Care for Backside Workers at Churchill Downs

Chaplains began serving at Kentucky race tracks about 35 years ago with the founding in 1972 of the Race Track Chaplaincy of America, a...

FCC Builds 25 Beds for Homeless Students

After doing a story for WHAS 11 about the heartbreaking reality of so many children in our community not having beds, church member...

FCC Partners with MOLO Village to Reduce Poverty, Incarceration, and Recidivism

The MOLO Village Community Development Corporation (MVCDC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 by St. Peter’s Church to engage...

FCC Helps Bridgehaven Mental Health Services Meet Two Important Goals!

Mental health issues are at the core of many problems faced by people across our community. In Louisville, Bridgehaven Mental Health...

FCC Grant Helps Former Inmates Find Security and Success

When those who have been incarcerated come to the end of their sentences, returning to life beyond the bars is not always easy. It can...

FCC Youth Group Increases Service Work in Our Community

At the beginning of each youth group year, First Christian Church Associate Minister for Youth and Young Adults, Jerry McBroom, surveys...

First Christian Church Helps Provide Essential Care for Refugee Infants

Entering into life in a new country can be hard, but for refugees, who are fleeing life threatening violence in their home countries, it...

FCC Provides Another 50 Safe Sleep Kits Through Cribs for Kids

Every year in the United States, more than 3,500 infant deaths occur due to accidental suffocation, asphyxia, or undetermined causes...

A Child of FCC Sees a Need and Takes Action to Care for the Homeless

While helping her grandmother serve the homeless, 9-year-old FCC member Abby noticed that while there were tables for setting out food...

FCC Member Shaves his Head to Help Save Lives

For the third year in a row, church member Elliott Crumbo shaved his head to help save lives. His effort is part of the annual...

First Christian Church Helps Local Man Reach Goals

David Price is a happy-go-lucky guy who loves people and brings sunshine wherever he goes. Until a year and a half ago, David spent much...

FCC Brings Joy to Children Across the Globe!

The congregation at First Christian Church has supported Operation Christmas Child, a shoe box ministry of Samaritan’s Purse, for many...

FCC Louisville Takes Lead in Getting Over 4,500 Volunteers to Serve our Community!

For four days in early July 2016, 4,582 volunteers served in over 150 projects throughout the City of Louisville. While this effort...

FCC Helps STARS Shine Bright at Kentucky State Reformatory

First Christian Church member Holly Brown is a social service clinician who works at the Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) in LaGrange. ...

First Christian Helps Shakespeare Behind Bars Bring Healing and Hope to Local Inmates

Thanks to the efforts of First Christian Church member, Joseph Bianca, we have entered into a supportive partnership with Shakespeare...

First Christian Helps Refugee Children Prepare for School

Kentucky Refugee Ministries supports U.S. State-Department- sponsored arrivals to Louisville in their first-year transition to being US...

First Christian Provides Emergency Grant in Response to Historic Flooding

The Group Workcamp mission trip had been almost two years in the making. The dates of the mission trip were set for July 3 - 9, 2016....

FCC Provides a Second "Cup of Joe" to Men of St. John Homeless Shelter

On February 15, 2015, Kenneth Winfield froze to death on the streets of Louisville. Before he died, Kenneth was a regular visitor to the...

FCC Continues to Shape Live Through its Support of St. Stephen Football and Cheer

According to Ty Anderson, co-president of St. Stephen Bulldogs Football and Cheer, their youth sports program is about much more than...

FCC Louisville Supports Missionary's Efforts in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Andrea Ragsdale first went to the Dominican Republic in the summer of 2008 - in only a week she fell in love with the island and the...

FCC Provides a Second Grant to Support Vital Prison Ministry

For a second year in a row, First Christian Church has provided financial support for a vital prison ministry. New Life in Christ...