Service is Important

First and Franklin promotes peacemaking and social justice in the City of Baltimore, nationally, and throughout the world. We do this through education, advocacy and hands-on projects. Generous financial and volunteer support enables us to witness in these ways:

Self-sufficiency development

Habitat for Humanity, Sandtown builds community and enables home ownership in the City of Baltimore via sweat equity.

Patrick Allison House is a successful transitional home for men recovering from addiction, located on the First and Franklin campus.

 

Hunger and disaster relief

The Presbyterian Church (USA) emergency help is sent to victims of natural disasters at home and abroad.
A weekly collection of canned goods supports a local food pantry.

Education

Our partnership with local Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Elementary School has helped rebuild the library, buy musical instruments, and provide books for at-home reading.
The Quixote Center’s “Clean Your Desk Campaign” provides new and gently used school supplies to rural Nicaraguan children.

Advocacy

First and Franklin is a member of Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice, urging our nation’s policy makers to change policies, programs and conditions to end hunger at home and abroad.

First and Franklin supports the mission of That All May Freely Serve:  to gain full equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people within the Presbyterian Church (USA) and society; the committee also advocates on current issues such as the death penalty.

First and Franklin’s annual Alternative Christmas Market generates support for additional peacemaking and social justice organizations via a festive, educational, non-commercial event.

The church also offers its space and support to Narcotics Anonymous, Al-anon, and the Baltimore School for the Arts.

Peace and Justice

Yellow ribbons represent those service personnel who have died in Iraq, green ribbons representing those thousands of Iraqi people who have died, the gold ribbons will represent those service personnel who have died in Afghanistan, the red ribbons will represent the Afghanistan people who have died, and the blue ribbons are representative of our weekly prayers for peace.

First and Franklin is in covenant with Heeding God's Call seeking to end gun violence.