Give United
Each year DOCC sends 10% of our annual budget towards missions efforts locally, nationally, and globally. But over the past decade many new missions and charities that seek to love others in Jesus’ name have begun working in and around Birmingham. In 2016 we began to look for a way to begin new partnerships with these groups through service and financial support and Give United was born. Here’s how it works:
In the month of August local organizations can submit applications to receive funds from our Give United campaign. Then in September we challenge our entire church to give faithfully for an entire month. Once we reach our monthly budget need for September all other monies collected will be distributed to all approved organizations. After completing the tenth year of Give United this past September, DOCC has given nearly $1.8 million to more than 100 separate local ministries in our community.
The financial gift is just the beginning. Give United is also a great way to become aware of some of the incredible missions work being done in Birmingham. Once we are aware of these organizations and their work, we have an opportunity to join them through our time by volunteering. Many of our members now serve monthly in organizations we discovered through Give United.
In 2025 our total amount distributed to local partners through our GIVE UNITED campaign is $258,947.80.
2025 GIVE UNITED PARTNERS
BASIC NEEDS MINISTRIES
Alabama Childhood Food Solutions | Provides food for children and families battling food insecurity whenever and wherever needed while pointing them to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Be the Change | Assists those in poor underserved communities by addressing food insecurities and lack of basic health resources.
Bundles of Hope Diaper Bank | Provides an adequate and reliable supply of diapers to families experiencing financial hardship while engaging the community and raising awareness for diaper need. (Also receives monthly Benevolence funding).
Christian Service Mission | Serves the greater Birmingham area for Christ and works alongside churches in order to build healthy communities that reflect oneness with Christ.
Grace Klein Community, INC | Works to unite diverse individuals, businesses, ministries and churches to share resources, meeting physical and spiritual needs locally and globally.
Serving You Ministries | Provides hope to families in the greater Birmingham area by providing sustainable solutions and affordable housing, health and nutrition, utility bill assistance, and crisis relief.(Also receives monthly Benevolence funding).
Shelby Baptist Association - Church & Community Ministries | Provides food, baby food, diapers (baby and adult), household cleaning supplies, personal hygiene and feminine hygiene products to families in crisis.
BIBLICAL EDUCATIONAL MINISTRIES
BMBA/Discovery Clubs | Teaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many elementary age children as possible in their own public elementary schools in Birmingham and the surrounding counties, giving them the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior.
BigTime Ministries | Disciples students through Bible studies, retreats, mission trips, and intentional relationships.
Birmingham Theological Seminary (BTS) | Provides an affordable, nationally-accredited, quality reformed theological education through a variety of accessible learning options.
Church United/Church United Academy | Strives to impact the Blount County community by seeing one life change story at a time. Provides local and international mission efforts and partner with Blount County Dept. of Human Resources to help Children in Foster Care
Citizens Church | Offers a Gospel-centered, disciple-making church in Birmingham’s Eastside/Ruffner community.
Fellowship of Christian Athletes | Seeks to lead every coach and athlete into a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and His church.
First Priority/Priority Kids | Conducts campus ministry in public schools by equipping students to take the Gospel to their peers.
The Gideons International | Strives to make the Word of God available to everyone and, together with the local church, reaching souls for Christ. Founded in 1899, it is made up of professional men and their wives. The organization distributes God's Word in 200 countries territories and possessions in 91 different languages.
Hargis Christian Camp | Provides a beautiful, tranquil setting for Christian summer camps and weekend retreats – for churches and Christian organizations.
Oak Tree Ministries | Serves adults and students in the Marks Village Public Housing Community and delivers Bible Club bags on a monthly basis.
Renovate Ministries | Encourages and counsels pastors and their wives through marriage and ministry retreats and pastoral cohorts throughout the year.
Young Business Leaders | Provides mentorship and weekly small groups to connect and equip like-minded men as they live out their faith in the workplace.
Young Life | Outreaches to middle school, high school, and college students – building bridges of authentic friendship, and introducing them to Jesus Christ.
CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES
Blanket Fort Hope | Supplies therapeutic housing, support services, foster-care training and ongoing advocacy to child survivors of human trafficking.
Presbyterian Home for Children | Provides a faith-based safe haven for children and their caregivers through programs which nurture, educate and equip individuals to become the fully functioning persons God created them to be.
Raleigh’s Place | Serves between 300-400 foster and adopted children and children in relative placement every year through foster homes, Camp 1:27, Katie’s Kloset and Workmanship Initiative.
COUNSELING/ADDICTION RECOVERY MINISTRIES
Awaken | Provides Gospel-based and therapeutically sound recovery resources and community for people impacted by sexual brokenness, addiction and trauma.
My Sister’s Place | Provides a Biblically-based 12-month residential life recovery program for women.
The Foundry Ministries | Restore hopes, rebuild lives and provides a haven where the addict and destitute experience the love of Christ, find freedom and discover purpose via Christ-centered ministries.
The Lifehouse | Partners with the community to change the world by teaching men and women to live in freedom every day.
The Mission | Offers Biblically-based recovery ministry and jail ministry at the Shelby County Jail.
THRIVE-Birmingham | Provides free or low-cost Biblically-based counseling, coaching and training in the areas of individual addiction and couples and family systems education and support.
Turning Point Foundation | Provides men with substance use disorder an opportunity to discover a new life in recovery through a Christ-centered emphasis.
Unbound Grace | Guides individuals and families toward healing, restoration, and renewed hope. With love, grace, and empathy, Unbound Grace supports those seeking growth and transformation through counseling, community support, and discipleship.
FAMILY MINISTRIES
Abiding Hearts Home Care Ministry | Cares for the homebound and elderly widows in our community by displaying God’s love to them and offering life-on-life discipleship relationships.
Anchor Community Respite Ministry | Provides fellowship and stimulation to people who are living with memory loss due to dementia or stroke. Anchor operates every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10 AM-2 PM, at Asbury UMC in Shelby County.
aTeam Ministries | Offers spiritual, financial, emotional support, and “Home Away from Home” lodging to children and families on their pediatric cancer journey.
Hearts in Hands, Inc. | Shares God's grace and shows God's love by serving the community. This includes low-income homeowners in Jefferson and Shelby County, primarily the elderly and disabled, who need assistance to stay safely in their homes.
King’s Home | Provides Christ-centered homes and services to youth, women and kids seeking refuge, hope and help from domestic violence, neglect, abandonment, homelessness, and other difficult and impoverished conditions and circumstances. A place where compassion resides, where love dwells, and where hope lives through Jesus Christ.
Legacy Home Ministries | Seeks to equip the next generation in foster care with the educational, emotional and spiritual tools needed to break generational cycles of poverty and abuse. An extension of Church United.
MEN’S MINISTRIES
Brother Bryan Mission | Seeks to minister to the financially, emotionally, and spiritually impoverished individuals in the central Alabama area.
SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRIES
Ady’s Big Army | Creates meaningful opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to thrive, contribute, and be celebrated for who they are – in a God-centered vocational community.
Is-Able Ministries | Enhances the quality of life for individuals with disabilities, their loved ones and caregivers.
Rainbow Omega | Seeks to glorify God by ensuring that adults with developmental disabilities have a safe home where their abilities and potentials are respected and nurtured in a Christian environment.
Unless U | Fosters the growth of adults with disabilities academically, spiritually, physically, socially, and vocationally.
WOMEN’S MINISTRIES
The Deeper House | Serves at-risk women who are struggling to get back on their feet. Committed to providing excellent programs and services that allow women to recognize and begin to live in their God-given identity and reach their full potential as they fulfill God’s purposes for them.
Hope’s Door, INC | Brings hope and purpose to women broken by the trauma of domestic violence, abuse, homelessness, addiction and trafficking.
One Life Ministries | Assists women through the written Word of God to regain their life. Located in Trafford, AL, this ministry provides a faith-based, God-centered life recovery program for women.
Sav-A-Life, INC | Shares the Truth of God’s word with women, men, and families who find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy.
Sav-A-Life Shelby First Pregnancy Center | Develops a culture of life where abortion is unnecessary and undesirable in Shelby County while offering the hope of the gospel.
The WellHouse | Offers restoration to women and children who have been victims of human trafficking.