Founded in 2017, Freedom Communities is a place-based organization operating in Charlotte’s Freedom-Wilkinson Corridor. The Corridor is located within the 28208 zip code, an area with the largest population of families with children living below the poverty line and the highest population of single-mother households.

Freedom Communities’ mission is to drive holistic family and community transformation through innovative programs and real estate investments in the Freedom Drive Corridor. With a tagline of “family-centered community transformation,” we invest in infrastructure and people. Not only are we involved in developing new, for-rent affordable housing, and creating low-income homeownership opportunities, but we’re also providing opportunities for people to secure better employment and higher wages, strengthen families and provide opportunities for parents and children to realize their full potential.

Resurrection Church is an active and growing missional church that exists to make disciples for Christ in the Arab world. Our congregation aims to see as many people as possible following Jesus on the Pathway of Discipleship, growing in their communities and spreading the Gospel in unreached areas; churches formed, and communities transformed.
Resurrection Church was established in 1964 by a group of believers who started gathering in homes around Hadath. Ps. Khalil Ibrahim, an Egyptian theology student, who was studying in Beirut, led the ministry and pastored the church until 1976. After the eruption of the Lebanese civil war, Ps. Khalil had to flee the country with his family, handing over the church leadership to Ps. Ghassan Khalaf, who pastored the church, building it on strong Biblical doctrine. In 2008, Ps. Ghassan handed over the leadership to Ps. Hikmat Kashouh, our current senior pastor. With Ps. Hikmat’s kingdom-minded approach and missional leadership, the church has grown and still is growing exponentially in size, quality, and impact.

In each year and in every season, we see God open doors for us to reach our neighbors and enemies with the Gospel as we faithfully serve and practically love refugee families and people who were most in need. What we are witnessing is unprecedented!
Because of the holistic ministry that the church provides, and because of the sacrificial love of Christ that many experienced, many were baptized, and lives were transformed. Today, the church is more than 44 congregations, led by indigenous pastors from various backgrounds, with more than 3,800 families journeying on the Pathway of Discipleship and making an impact in their community.

UrbanPromise Charlotte’s mission is to provide Charlotte’s children and youth with the spiritual, academic, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

UrbanPromise serves students from kindergarten through young adulthood following the pillars of: Reach a Child, Raise a Leader, Restore Community.

Reach a Child: Kindergarten through eighth grade students attend After School and Summer Camp Programs receiving academic support, targeted literacy instruction, recreation, Christian character education, and community. We serve four neighborhood locations in Charlotte.

Raise a Leader: High school students are employed as "StreetLeaders" and serve as mentors and counselors for the younger campers. StreetLeaders receive post-secondary pathways guidance, access to mental health services, and leadership and spiritual development.

Restore Community: Our StreetLeader Alumni receive support, so they graduate college, enter their career of choice, and find meaningful employment as young adults.

The Charlotte Eagles are Playing a Game to Change the World. Since 1991 The Eagles have been utilizing the platform of soccer to introduce individuals to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, equip lifelong disciples, and launch the next generation of Christian leaders. The Charlotte Eagles has a deep impact in both suburban and urban communities across Charlotte with specific outreach to East Charlotte's refugee population, North Charlotte's underserved and under-resourced community, and South Boulevard's Latino community.
UrbanPromise serves students from kindergarten through young adulthood following the pillars of: Reach a Child, Raise a Leader, Restore Community.

Reach a Child: Kindergarten through eighth grade students attend After School and Summer Camp Programs receiving academic support, targeted literacy instruction, recreation, Christian character education, and community. We serve four neighborhood locations in Charlotte.

Raise a Leader: High school students are employed as "StreetLeaders" and serve as mentors and counselors for the younger campers. StreetLeaders receive post-secondary pathways guidance, access to mental health services, and leadership and spiritual development.

Restore Community: Our StreetLeader Alumni receive support, so they graduate college, enter their career of choice, and find meaningful employment as young adults.

Charlotte Rescue Mission is about one word: TRANSFORMATION.

CRM meets people at the intersection of homelessness and addiction. Everyone served by the Mission has an addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. We work from the inside out to address the root cause, which is a shame-based identity. This is accomplished by providing professional, Christian, residential recovery services through “Rebound” for Men and “Dove’s Nest for Women and Children” at zero cost to the residents.

Graduates then can remain engaged with the Mission through the Recovery Living Program, which affords participants the opportunity to remain in safe, recovery-oriented housing while working, saving money, and planning for their future.

It’s a holistic approach that aims to see the individual completely and totally transformed from who they were before to who God created them to be.

BraveWorks was launched out of Forest Hill in 2012, originally as Fashion & Compassion. It all started on a Forest Hill mission trip to Rwanda, where Michele Dudley first felt God calling her to help women overcome poverty by supporting their artisan enterprises. Michele and co-founder Celeste Bundy met a survivor of human trafficking in Charlotte in 2013, and that’s when the local ministry was born.

Fast forward 10 years. BraveWorks is under new leadership and a new name, and now serves over 800 women each year in Charlotte, Africa, and South/Central America. BraveWorks’ mission is to empower women and families overcoming trauma and injustice, bridging the gap from pain to purpose through: impactful connections; inspired creations; economic confidence.

Our vision is to be a catalyst for God-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant and purposeful lives. Through the support of Forest Hill, BraveWorks can transform lives for women overcoming trafficking, abuse, domestic violence, and ethnic persecution. Forest Hill supports immigrants and refugees new to Charlotte that BraveWorks serves in partnership with Project 658. Women are welcomed into a new community, trained in jewelry-making and other crafting, and empowered through language development, personal growth, and professional development. Women receive a stipend to help them support their families and gain economic mobility, often having their own income for the first time. Lovingly referred to as Artisans, our clients are connected to resources and come together across race, faith, and national origin in an inclusive Christ-centered curriculum. We are so grateful for the support of Forest Hill Church!

CRM meets people at the intersection of homelessness and addiction. Everyone served by the Mission has an addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. We work from the inside out to address the root cause, which is a shame-based identity. This is accomplished by providing professional, Christian, residential recovery services through “Rebound” for Men and “Dove’s Nest for Women and Children” at zero cost to the residents.

Graduates then can remain engaged with the Mission through the Recovery Living Program, which affords participants the opportunity to remain in safe, recovery-oriented housing while working, saving money, and planning for their future.

It’s a holistic approach that aims to see the individual completely and totally transformed from who they were before to who God created them to be.

QC PRC is a ministry to women facing unplanned pregnancies that partners with the local church to serve her family, save her child, and share the Gospel. Our staff is committed to providing compassionate and confidential services in a welcoming environment. Medical services are provided by licensed medical personnel.

Our Services Include: Pregnancy Tests; Ultrasounds; Abortion Education; Pregnancy Options Coaching; Medical Referrals; Parenting Education; Support for Men; Post-Abortion Support.

Elam was founded just a decade after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. At the time, many thought Iran’s tiny church would wither away and die under intense persecution.

However, Elam’s founders had a firm conviction that regardless of who sits on earthly thrones, Jesus reigns from His heavenly throne. Our name, Elam, is taken from Jeremiah 49:38 where God says, “I will set my throne in Elam.” (Elam was a kingdom in ancient times that became an important region within the Persian empire).

So, our name is a statement of faith that the Lord will keep His promise and have His way in Iran. It is a prayer that His Kingdom will indeed come to Iran. That is why whatever the political circumstances, our mission remains the same: to strengthen and expand the church in the Iran region and beyond.

Defend the Fatherless is a local non-profit organization founded by one of Forest Hill Church's members, Caitlin Sund. After brining her daughter home from China and then serving in the mission field of China, Caitlin wanted to see more done to care for the fatherless in the local community.

The mission of Defend the Fatherless is, "To be one more reason for families to say, "Yes" to the fatherless through Foster Care and adoption. They do so by wrapping around foster and adoptive families across York County, SC. Defend aims to meet the physical, emotional, educational, financial and spiritual needs through key programming. These programs include: The York County Foster Closet where families can shop at no cost for items such as clothing, shoes, baby equipment, diapers, and other essentials when welcoming a new child in their home. In addition, Defend's monthly connection events as well as respite events help build bonds within like-minded families who are together walking the road of foster care and adoption. Defend offers trauma-based counseling scholarships as well as adoption grants. Specialized programming includes their Back 2 School shoe drive as well as Santa's Helper Program which allows families the joy of shopping for children in their home at Christmas time using donated gift cards.

BLACKBOX exists to fuel indigenous-led work among the world’s hardest to reach places and people groups. Our sole motivation is to witness God glorified in every tongue, tribe, nation, and people (Revelation 7:9)! What drives our passion for unreached people groups is God’s glory.

Embedded indigenous workers are operating in the most difficult places to make disciples and plant churches while preaching the Gospel in the shadow of immense persecution with strict security concerns. BLACKBOX speaks to the need to redact certain elements of our mission as we partner, promote, and protect our indigenous work among the hardest to reach places and people groups. Our Frontline Strategic Partners (FSPs) are Christ-followers laboring to meet urgent physical and spiritual needs in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and more. BLACKBOX invests in biblical, holistic, and effective frontline initiatives implemented by our FSPs for the purpose of advancing the Gospel in every tribe, tongue, and nation.

Your partnership with BLACKBOX is propelling the Gospel in the world’s hardest to reach places and people groups through church planting, discipleship, leadership training, evangelistic resources, humanitarian projects, creative access platforms, scripture translation, and mobilization initiatives so that Christ may be known where He is not yet renowned.

In the greater Charlotte area, Congregations for Kids (CFK) mobilizes the community to be Champions for kids in the foster care system. We do this through four pathways of engagement: FOSTER, MENTOR, SERVE, GIVE.
We believe every child deserves the safety and stability of a loving home.
We believe that one positive relationship with a caring adult can change the trajectory of a child’s life.
We believe that supported social workers means supported kids.
We believe meeting immediate, tangible needs can help keep families together.
Most importantly, we believe that everyone can do something to serve the most vulnerable children in our city.

The Harvest Center of Charlotte moves homeless men, women, and children from lives of insecurity and dependency to empowerment and self-sufficiency. We provide a holistic transitional program called the Charlotte Passport Program, which integrates Eight Dimensions of Wellness and Incentives. Our one-campus model provides housing, mental health, substance abuse recovery services, personal transformation life-coaching, and faith-based strategies.We believe every child deserves the safety and stability of a loving home.
We believe that one positive relationship with a caring adult can change the trajectory of a child’s life.
We believe that supported social workers means supported kids.
We believe meeting immediate, tangible needs can help keep families together.
Most importantly, we believe that everyone can do something to serve the most vulnerable children in our city.

Since 2008, Project 658 has offered a variety of services to East Charlotte. We believe that Christ's love compels us to change our city through serving our neighbors. Therefore, we are a Christ-centered mission providing educational, vocational, and health & wellness services for at-risk families, aiming to help restore community, with a key focus on the refugee and international community. In 2015, the 658 Center opened to provide a home for its services. The center is also home to 658 Catering and Events, Imago ( screen printing), Neighborhood Coffee, and Christ Central Church.

UNPACKIN' it Ministries is a community of sports fans who follow Jesus...enjoy sports together...connect in fellowship...and equip one another to grow in their faith. Having the vision to see sports fans everywhere following Jesus, UNPACKIN' it's President, Bryce Johnson, founded the ministry in 2014.
With its mission to challenge, encourage, and inspire sports fans to follow Jesus and become more like Him, we unpack and relate sports stories to life and Biblical truth. The ministry provides devotionals (through email and on the Bible App)...UNPACKIN' it podcasts...The (UN)PACKED Lunch...events...and Fantasy Football Fellowship.
Sports fans are given the opportunity to engage in sports conversations that lead to life and faith conversations, so they become more passionate about Jesus, loyal to their families, emotionally healthy, outspoken about their faith, and committed to the Church.

A BETTER WORLD WAS FOUNDED IN 2001 by Pastor Ken Gilliard and Forest Hill Church, who identified the need for a positive, educational, after-school program in West Charlotte. When A Better World began, it served eight students two days a week. Thanks to the tireless work of Pastor Ken and his team, the program now serves approximately seventy students five days a week. The kids who stick with A Better World are, at the very least, guaranteed a positive experience and quite possibly one that will change their lives.

FORCLT was founded by a group of pastors out of a shared burden that the operating system of the Church in Greater Charlotte is broken. Historically, the Church has been divided, declining, and too often disengaged from meeting the needs of our city, all while leading to epidemic levels of pastoral burnout. While this can be discouraging, in John 17, our Lord Jesus provided the answer when He prayed “…that they may become perfectly ONE, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.” This is why the FORCLT Network exists. To Unite the Church to Transform Our City.

The mission of FORCLT is to connect pastors for personal, church, and city renewal. FORCLT accomplishes this mission by building networks, tools and initiatives that help pastors and Christian leaders learn, connect, and take action together. See pictures of the State of Our City platform and current network visualization to the right as examples of how FORCLT builds networks and tools.

Hoskins Park Ministries
Hoskins Park Ministries provides participants a community rooted in God's word that is focused on spiritual growth, recovery and skills leading to a Christ centered transformation.

Vapor Ministries brings physical relief and spiritual transformation to people living in extreme poverty. Together with Forest Hill Church, we establish holistic ministry centers, run by indigenous leaders, that bring transformation to third-world environments.

At our centers in Kenya, Togo, and Haiti, we break cycles of poverty through quality education, clean water, agricultural development, and employment that creates economic growth in the community. We also form disciples that multiply and expand the reach of the church.

At Vapor Ministries, our very name reminds that we have a short time in which we must urgently pursue the advancement of the gospel and service of the poor to the glory of Jesus. Thank you for helping us meet needs, feed souls, and elevate God.

God has already positioned catalytic kingdom leaders all over the world who are called to push back the spiritual and economic poverty in their nations. We call these leaders CHANGEMAKERS, and we believe that investing in them is the most strategic investment in missions.

Since 1990, Global Advance has ignited over 860,000 changemakers in 110 nations to fulfill the Great Commission. We unite high-capacity pastors, marketplace leaders, women leaders, and rising next-generation leaders in collaborative coalitions, equipping them with vision, training, and encouragement to implement culturally effective gospel-advancing strategies in their nations.

As changemakers are multiplied in a nation, a missions force is mobilized to ignite transformation in every sphere of society, and lives are changed for eternity!

Founded in 2017 by Bart Noonan, West Blvd Ministry serves the spiritual and physical needs of families and communities within the West Boulevard corridor to the glory of Jesus Christ. The ministry puts community first with Neighborhood Cookouts, Bible Study Bingo, Stars Mentoring and Reading Programs. West Blvd Ministry supports several school athletic departments, educators, and students across West Charlotte with new Uniforms, Equipment, Student Incentive Programs, Prom, Decision Day and Teacher Appreciation Luncheons. Supporting and building bridges within the community extends through the BBQ for Blue program that provides a meal, promotes fellowship and collaboration with CMPD Westover and Freedom Divisions.
God has used West Blvd Ministry to be a vessel of hope, love and encouragement throughout the West Blvd corridor and West Charlotte. Each day brings new opportunities to live the gospel out in an intentional manner where we put relationships first.

Kasr El Dobara (KDEC) is the largest evangelical church in the Middle East with a passionate heart for reaching the whole of the Arab World. KDEC is a vision-driven church, and our vision is for the whole earth to be filled with the knowledge and glory of the Lord (Habakkuk 2:14) and we believe this will be fulfilled in the Middle East through fervent ground-shaking prayer and strong in-depth discipleship.

Forest Hill and KDEC currently partner to reach a strategic and growing suburb of Cairo called New Cairo. This affluent city adjacent to Cairo has seen incredible growth over the last 10 years. In 2015, KDEC saw the need and opportunity to plant a new campus to serve those living in this area of Cairo specifically. Starting in a large home with less than 50 people, the church immediately began to grow.

On his first visit to India in 1971, Pastor John DeVries was overwhelmed. The heat, the crowds of people, the smell, the beggars on street corners grabbing at his sleeve—it was a lot to process.

So on his flight home to Michigan, John prayed what he called his “Jonah prayer”: anywhere but there, Lord. Anywhere but India.

But the truth is, John witnessed an incredible need on that trip. Not just in the poverty and injustice all around him—but in how immensely untouched by the Gospel India was.

And he discovered an incredible opportunity: passionate Christians in India who, despite being radically outnumbered, were motivated to reach their own nation with the love of Christ. John could not ignore the calling God had placed in his heart, and eventually, a beautiful partnership was born.

Hope Community Clinic exists to provide hope and health to the immigrant, refugee, and marginalized populations of East Charlotte. We do so by providing medical, behavioral health and case management services to uninsured and underinsured individuals and families. We seek to eliminate obstacles to healthcare that many of our patients would otherwise have to navigate on their own.

Christ’s love compels us to change the world through serving our neighbors. By providing outstanding care to our neighbors, not only do we improve the lives of our patients but our community as a whole.

Vive Charlotte Church is a small multi-ethnic and multi-lingual community church desiring to create roots in the middle of East Charlotte. We are not only interested in becoming permanent residents within our community, but we desire to become true neighbors to all those around us, seeking to help our neighbors, their families, their friends, and the community to flourish. The good news of the gospel compels us to go to all the margins of our neighborhood and bring renewal – not only to our spiritual lives, but to our relationships, and the rhythms of our community.

Come and worship with us as we learn how to become a new church actively connected to our Eastland community. Join us for fellowship and coffee before each gathering.

Silent Images is a ministry that provides video and photography to other ministries and churches. We recognize that visual storytelling can be extremely expensive. We offer professional videography and photography services to nonprofits at discounted prices so that these organizations can have a greater impact on their communities without breaking their budgets. Over the past 16 years, SI has served more than 500 charities in 49 different countries. You can learn more about us at www.silentimages.org
Thank you, Forest Hill Church, for your years of support, prayer, and mentorship!

Come and worship with us as we learn how to become a new church actively connected to our Eastland community. Join us for fellowship and coffee before each gathering.

Our mission is to provide scholastic, spiritual, and social support to equip and empower our underserved neighbors. We desire to see God’s hand in the transformation of lives and strengthening of communities through the provision of holistic programs to the families we serve.

For the past ten years, LHCC has continued to foster greater levels of kinship and trust between people from different backgrounds, cultures, and walks of life. Despite the challenges presented by the recent prolonged pandemic and for people with low socio-economic means, we have stayed true to our mission of serving families with dignity and respect. We were consistent in our prayers and spiritual nurturing of our families and continued our in-person programming throughout the recent disruptive years to meet our families’ needs. We continue to grow and see God’s favor upon the community and the families we serve.

Established in 2014 by Jim Noble as part of Noble Food and Pursuits, the Charlotte Mecklenburg Dream Center exists to raise up disciples and transform communities through consistent, Christ-centered engagement, and meeting the needs of the whole man - spirit, soul and body.

The Dream Center has seen hope restored, not only in the lives of the communities being served, but in the lives of our volunteers and donors as they have the privilege of seeing God’s hand at work in our community. Through your involvement with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Dream Center, you will witness God growing His Kingdom in real time.

According to Barna, 73% of Christians see no significant connection between their faith and their work. What would our city look like in ten years if believers saw their everyday work as a primary expression of missional discipleship?
The Charlotte Institute for Faith and Work exists to restore the connection between faith and work, to the glory of God and for the good of our city. This is accomplished by:
1. Reimagining work in the context of the Biblical narrative
2. Equipping Christians to live more fully integrated lives.
3. Cultivating community leading to cultural renewal
When people understand the high calling of their work, that God uses it to care for and redeem every corner or creation, the why and the way they do their work changes. They start thinking and acting with the mission of impacting our city’s culture and marketplace with the fullness of the Gospel. Charlotte flourishes and its citizens prosper.