Here is a small glimpse of where First Church is impacting our community right now.
You can also download our Serving Bingo Card for ideas of how to serve your neighbor in other ways!
Campus Connection
One of the most important places to begin building a foundation is with school partnerships. Every life and health indicator is tied to education: jobs, well-being, and family. Our goal is to pour Hope and Encouragement into the local schools by working with school leaders to identify various needs and opportunities to serve and resource. Our passion is for our school teams to be an ongoing, consistent presence throughout the year!
Whiz Kids Tutoring & Mentoring
Campus Connection partners with City Gospel Mission’s Whiz Kids Tutoring & Mentoring program. This program can boost academic scores, create stronger readers, and improve confidence. But our volunteers often become more than just tutors, they become mentors, friends, and positive role models.
Neighborhood Impact
Neighborhood Impact strives to connect with kids and families in order to serve, build relationships, influence, and impact their lives. We aspire to establish a friendly environment that fosters relationships, that lead to genuine friendships, opening doors for the Gospel to be shared.
International Student Ministry
You don’t always have to go across the globe to share the Gospel, you can welcome international students on your own doorstep and pour into them as they figure out life in America.
From providing a simple ride from the airport to connecting as a Friendship Family and inviting international students into your home, there are many ways that you can engage.
Homeless Ministry
Our Homeless Ministry, in conjunction with partner organizations, focuses on serving the homeless through the provision of meals, clothing, and encouragement. The needs of those experiencing homelessness dramatically increase during the cold season and our team rises to meet those needs. In this area of ministry, you will always have the deep satisfaction of knowing your time, kindness, and talents are directly and positively impacting those who presently cannot experience the comfort and warmth of a home.
Go Pantry
GO Pantry is a non-profit community outreach, providing food for hungry kids in Northern Kentucky on days that schools are not open.
Master Provisions
Master Provisions, in partnership with hundreds of non-profit organizations, serves God by connecting resources like food and clothing to people in need. Volunteers serve with us to prepare donated items for distribution to meet the physical and spiritual needs of over 67,000 people worldwide each month.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Unite your two passions, faith and athletics, to impact the world for Jesus Christ. We’ve been on one mission for over 60 years.
Fairhaven Rescue Mission
Fairhaven Rescue Mission provides Christ-centered programs and services that respond to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of homeless and hurting men, women, and children. We serve meals and lead a time of worship two nights a month. If you’re interested in learning more click the volunteer button, and someone will get back to you.
Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky
We believe homelessness is an emergency and that shelter is a basic necessity for human beings. We believe that only when this basic necessity is provided, do human beings have the ability to recover from homelessness.
DCCH Center for Children & Families
DCCH Center helps rebuild the lives of individuals with traumatic, emotional, and behavioral difficulties. Services include residential treatment, foster care, adoption, independent living, targeted case management, therapy, and counseling services to meet all mental health needs for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families in Northern Kentucky.
Kentucky Refugee Ministries
Kentucky Refugee Ministries, Inc. (KRM), a non-profit organization, is dedicated to providing resettlement services to refugees through faith- and agency-based co-sponsorship in order to promote self-sufficiency and successful integration into our community. KRM is committed to offering access to community resources and opportunities and to promoting awareness of diversity for the benefit of the whole community.
Bloc Ministries
Building relationships with our neighbors & sharing hope in brokenness
B: Believing in the power of hope (in Christ to save)
L: Living where we serve (by being consistently present in our community)
O: One-to-one (relationships and discipleship)
C: Christ in us (in all that we do)
Care Net Pregnancy Services of Northern Kentucky
We are a Christ-centered organization existing to educate, support, and empower people before, during, and after an unplanned pregnancy, while uplifting the sanctity of human life.
CASA - Court Appointed Special Advocates
Court Appointed Special Advocates CASA recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate on behalf of abused and neglected children in our community. CASA volunteers do their own investigation, get to know each child, and write reports directly to the judge with recommendations for what’s in the child’s best interests.
CASA volunteers get cases moving through the child welfare system and advocate strongly to help ensure each child is in a secure, safe home.
Family Nurturing Center
Family Nurturing Center is dedicated to ending the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships.
Fresh Start Shower Ministry
As an outreach ministry of Florence Christian Church, the Fresh Start Shower Ministry promotes dignity through a safe and welcoming place with showers and restrooms. Fresh body. Fresh clothes. Fresh heart.
New Hope Pregnancy Center
New Hope Pregnancy Center in Northern Kentucky offers help to those facing unplanned pregnancies. All services are free & confidential including pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, options mentoring, parenting classes. Locations in Crestview Hills, Covington, Falmouth
Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center
The Northern Kentucky Children’s Advocacy Center provides a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation, and treatment to children and families.
Orphan Care Alliance
Simply put, James 1:27 describes pure and faultless religion as caring for orphans and widows. Acting on this Biblical invitation, OCA equips Christians and connects them with opportunities to care for children and families in need. We desire to see every child have a home and know the love of a family with the Church community leading the effort. Knowing that welcoming a child into your home is not for every family, OCA provides opportunities to engage in orphan care, whether its adopting or advocating.
Reset Ministries
Our Christ-centered voluntary program consists of five key components that are essential to helping men and women break the destructive patterns in their lives that lead to addictions, lost opportunities, and (re-)incarceration. Those five key components are dignified housing, employment opportunities, growth opportunities, hope for the future, and Biblical truth.
Rooms with Love
Providing dignified furniture for displaced individuals and/or families in Boone, Kenton, and Campbell county.
Transitions
Transitions is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and licensed by the State of Kentucky as Alcohol and Other Drug Entities (AODE). The overarching objective for every level of care we provide is to jumpstart an individual’s life in recovery. We do this through individualized treatment planning, patient-centered care, evidence-based intervention strategies, and a compassionate commitment to top-quality care.