• 9/11 Hands On Birmingham
• Appalachian Trail Days Mission 2010
• Black Belt Missions
• Construction Missions
• International Missions
• Local Missions
  • Discovery Clubs
  • Firehouse Shelter
  • First Light Women's Shelter
  • Greater Birmingham Ministries
  • Holiday Giving Opportunities 2009
  • Linn Park Homeless Ministry
  • Medical Apartments Ministry
  • Monday Morning Flower Ministry
• Ministry Commitment

Greater Birmingham Ministries

Brookwood members volunteers every first Wednesday at Greater Birmingham Ministries.

GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES (GBM) is an ecumenical and interfaith organization in Birmingham, Alabama, with a thirty-year history of direct services and community organizing. Begun in 1969, GBM has sought to carry out a faith-based response to poverty by meeting people's emergency needs while also pursuing social and economic justice for all people. Today GBM is sponsored by eleven Christian denominations as well as by Jewish and Unitarian congregations. GBM is supported in different ways by an even larger number of individuals, groups, organizations and denominations.

From its very beginning GBM has carried on three basic areas of work and ministry in the community:

Direct Services: Providing financial help, personal assistance, and support for families and individuals in crisis.

Systems Change/Economic Justice: Seeking to listen to and work alongside low-income neighborhoods as they seek to improve their lives, their neighborhoods and the community.

Faith in Community: Helping the community to reflect faithfully on and understand current social realities, especially as they affect the poor and vulnerable.

Brookwood volunteers help by working the first Wednesday of each month for two or three hours. Men with trucks pick up the food from the Food Bank and BBC volunteers organize the food on the shelves and assemble sackfuls of food for distribution.

Each Thanksgiving and Christmas, food drives are implemented at the church, with donations being given directly to GBM. "Free Turkey" coupons given by local grocery stores are also accepted.

The church also sponsors a toy drive in the weeks before Christmas, gathering gifts for babies through teens who are served by GBM.

For more information on how you can get involved, you may contact GBM at (205) 326-6821. Their offices are located at:

GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES
2304 12th Avenue North
Birmingham, AL 35234-3111