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UA Mobilizes Local Church to Fight COVID-19 Better Together

May 15, 2020 | UA News

Article by Jaleith Gary, Urban Alliance’s Director of Philanthropy

The COVID-19 pandemic quietly snuck into our daily lives and shook our community to its core. Days were long as we monitored the news and fighting an invisible enemy began to take its toll on us all.

But God is moving through the local church. We’re working hard to meet critical needs and demonstrate His love when people need it most, but we can’t do it alone.

You’re helping, with donations of all sizes. Here’s how.

Sustaining several ongoing emergency relief sites that provide food and household supplies to hundreds vulnerable children and families each week through our partnerships with schools, our network, and community-based organizations:

Developing a free online resource library to provide ministry leaders with materials to help people in need practically, emotionally and spiritually.
Mobilizing volunteers to make masks and keep our emergency relief distribution sites safe for everyone and stop the spread of COVID-19.
Providing a series of free online trainings to help people cope with stress and become more resilient, talk to children and youth about COVID-19, and connect people to supportive programs in the community. You can register for all of them here:

Equipping essential service providers to meet the increased demands on their services as more people face hardships and turn to them for help.
Equipping care and counseling ministries that have seen heightened needs for mental and emotional support as people seek to cope with the stress and disruption of this crisis.
Providing grants to food pantries in Hartford for the purchase of food and supplies to improve the cleanliness and safety of their service provision.

Our team is actively monitoring the crisis as it evolves to find ways we can provide much help as possible to the people who need it most. 

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The staff at Urban Alliance are familiar with Pastor Frank because he is a regular attendee to many of the trainings Urban Alliance provides on subjects like domestic violence, addressing childhood trauma, and better counseling techniques. “That’s been so valuable to me to be able to bring that back, not only in my counseling but also in my teaching and preaching ministries, “ shared Termine.

Pastor Frank was also one of the original members of the Micah group, a group of pastors that meets at Urban Alliance to discuss and strategize about challenging issues that face the church today. One of those earlier discussions on justice, incarceration, and returning citizens was particularly memorable. “We all lamented the fact that these men and women were coming out of prison into our churches and just kind of being thrown there,” said Termine, “We could do better than this.” That discussion planted the seeds that eventually led to the creation of Second Chance Churches – an opportunity for churches to provide support and mentoring to returning citizens that continues today.

When we asked Pastor Frank what he would say to another church that was unaware of Urban Alliance, he said, “If you are looking to get out in the community and make a difference in the community, Urban Alliance is a super way to do it. We’re a small church … we can’t do everything. Urban Alliance is a pathway to get our people involved in ministries that are already doing it, doing it well, and just need extra volunteers.”

Pastor Frank Termine’s story embodies many things we are trying to accomplish at Urban Alliance: supporting organizations in the communities they serve with training, resources, and opportunities to make a difference. Pastors and non-profit leaders face a wide range of challenges and, therefore, need a wide range of help and resources. Your support can help turn stories of struggle into stories like you find at Calvary Church.

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