2019 Wholeness Grants | fcclouisville

2019 Wholeness Grant Ministries

The ministries below are some of the ministries that took place in 2019. Each of them was funded through our Wholeness Grant Ministry.

FCC Sends Supplies after Hurricane

When Hurricane Dorian hit The Bahamas on September 1, 2019, the damage was immense. Thousands were left homeless and without food, clean w...

First Christian Church Brings Vocational Training to Zambia

RecycloCraftz is a fair trade vocational, literacy, discipleship training ministry founded in 2008, by Tracy Murray, Louisville resident,...

First Christian Church Kids Create Care Kits for Louisville Communities

Each Sunday, the children of First Christian Church are invited and welcomed to participate in children's ministry programming known as D...

FCC Funds Camp Experience for Members of Louisville Youth Group

Louisville Youth Group (LYG) is the primary LGBTQIA+ nonprofit community serving LGBTQIA+ youth in Kentuckiana. LYG provides a safe space...

FCC Funds Trip to Civil Rights Museum for Louisville Students

Community Connections is a nonprofit organization that works with children in west Louisville between the ages of 12 and 17 to help them ...

FCC Flies WWII Vets to DC in Honor Flight

Honor Flight Bluegrass is a non profit organization whose mission is to fly WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans to Washington DC to see th...

FCC Provides High Caliber Educational Support to Louisville’s Children

Sowing Seeds with Faith is a Louisville-based private tutoring service which provides after school tutoring and summer programming. Tutor...

First Christian Supports Children’s Creativity at Community Center

The ACE Project was founded in 2014, after a mourning mother turned her tragedy into triumph. Rose Smith lost her son Cory Crowe to gun v...

First Christian Church Supports Grief Response

The mission of First Hour of Grief Response Inc. (FHGR Inc.) is to help people navigate the sudden loss of a loved one. The group provide...

FCC Joins Movement to Provide Care to Kids with Cancer

raiseRED is the largest student-run philanthropic organization on the University of Louisville’s campus. In 2019, the group worked to rai...

First Christian Church Contributes to Quality End-of-Life Care

The Hildegard House has provided quality end-of-life care during the last months of life for people without a home in Louisville since 20...

FCC Supports Local Birth Moms and Dads

Adoption Bridges of Kentuckiana (ABOK), a program of St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities, creates bridges between women wanting to place a c...

FCC Equips Lacrosse Team

Lacrosse is the fastest-growing team sport in America and it has found its way to Louisville. While there have been several high school p...

FCC Sponsors VOA Luncheon

Volunteers of America is a faith-based nonprofit organization founded in 1896 that provides affordable housing and other assistance servi...

FCC Continues Support of Scarlet Hope

Scarlet Hope exists to share the hope and love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry. Louisville has the 9th largest ad...

FCC funds Christian Care Communities Chaplaincy Program

Christian Care Communities is Kentucky’s largest faith-inspired, non-profit provider of affordable senior living and long-term care for o...

FCC Provides Security for Lifehouse Maternity Home

Lifehouse Maternity Home’s mission is to provide for the spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual needs of pregnant and/or parenti...

FCC Provides Materials to Project Linus “Blanketeers”

Project Linus is a non-profit organization with a two-fold mission. First, to provide love, and a sense of security, warmth, and comfort ...

FCC Supports National Benevolent Association Programs

Following God’s call, the National Benevolent Association (NBA) exists to inspire and connect the people and ministries of the Christian ...

FCC Provides Comfort to Residents of Episcopal Church Home

Through a Wholeness Grant from the First Christian Church of Louisville, Episcopal Church Home (ECH) residents have received some excepti...

FCC Sends Medical Supplies to Mali

In the last 26 years, Supplies Over Seas (SOS), a Louisville based organization, has saved more than one million pounds of medical suppli...

FCC Provides Care Through Clothes at Maryhurst

Every year, many of the young girls that come to Maryhurst, a child welfare agency located in Louisville, KY, show up with very little to...

FCC Member Crafts Water Filters Covers

Water With Blessings, a faith-based mission that provides water filters to communities without access to clean water, is celebrating 10 y...

First Christian Church Continues Support of MB3

In Louisville, KY, Mission Behind Bars and Beyond (MB3) provides spiritual support, life skills training and mentoring for those inside p...

First Christian Joins Interfaith Build

First Christian Church has partnered with Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville and other people of faith from the Christian, Jewish a...

FCC Supports Disciples of Christ Hurricane Relief

In September 2019, Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, stalled over the northern islands of The Bahamas. Damage to the islands of Grand...

FCC Builds More Beds for Louisville Children

Every year in December, First Christian Church hosts their annual Build a Bed project. FCC members and friends will come together after s...

FCC Members Provide Service Dogs for Veterans

First Christian Church was pleased to support the Barkstrong, Inc this September, as they held the 3rd Annual Golf Outing in Memory of Br...

FCC Grows Love in Community Garden

Every Sunday this fall, as members and visitors entered First Christian Church, they were greeted with a bountiful harvest. Tomatoes and ...

Spreading the Good News Across the Globe

First Christian Church of Louisville has supported Operation Christmas Child, a shoe box ministry of Samaritan’s Purse, for many years. T...

FCC Serves Low Income Kids in Churchill Downs Area

Grace Kids United Methodist Church is a congregation solely for children and youth in the neighborhood near Churchill Downs in Louisville...

FCC Supports Tutoring Program in Historic Russell Neighborhood

The Russell Neighborhood, in Louisville, KY was known in the 1940’s “Louisville’s Harlem”. The area had a strong African American busine...

FCC Funds Seek the Peace Conference

In 2015, First Christian Church of Louisville partnered with Peace Catalyst International by offering them a grant to use toward their mi...

FCC Provides Care for Children so Parents Can Study

For nearly twenty years, First Christian Church has partnered with Eastern Area Community Ministries (EACM) to serve our neighbors who ar...