Love Your Neighbor. Help Transform Your City.
The good news of Jesus is meant to be both proclaimed and demonstrated. Across Greater Baltimore, BALM encourages disciples, churches, and community leaders to build relationships, respond to real needs, and pursue mercy and justice together.
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MERCY, JUSTICE, & COMMUNITY
Why Mercy & Justice Matter
The Gospel in Word and Deed
Following Jesus means loving God and loving our neighbors. We believe disciple-making involves more than sharing what we believe—it means demonstrating the compassion, justice, and generosity of Jesus in the places where we live.
Mercy and justice aren't separate from BALM's vision for a disciple-making movement. They're essential to it.
Rather than creating programs disconnected from local communities, we seek to listen, build relationships, and respond to opportunities that emerge through churches, leaders, and neighbors throughout our network.
Stories of Mercy & Justice
Salaam Center renovation — Highlandtown
Making Room for Welcome
In April 2023, more than two dozen volunteers helped renovate the Salaam Center's second floor and courtyard. BALM brought together supporters from numerous churches and helped raise funds toward the $100,000 renovation project, supporting a center serving refugees and immigrants.
New Song Community Church — Sandtown
Beauty Out of Brokenness
In 2019, BALM helped bring together 70 volunteers to transform a vacant lot near New Song Community Church into a welcoming green space. The project created a place for children to play, neighbors to gather, and relationships to grow.
Abbott Memorial — Highlandtown
A Church Reconnecting With Its Neighborhood
In 2022, BALM partnered with college students from UMD and UMBC for a spring-break service project at Abbott Memorial Presbyterian Church. Students helped with church cleanup and hosted a neighborhood celebration. The broader renewal effort included community meals, outreach gatherings, and relationships with immigrant neighbors.
How Projects Take Shape
Local Relationships. Shared Action. Lasting Hope.
Listen
Discover needs through relationships with neighbors.
Connect
Bring together churches, leaders, and local partners.
Respond
Explore practical ways to serve together.
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What Does Your Community Need?
You know your neighborhood. You see its challenges, its strengths, and the opportunities others might miss.
If you have an idea for a mercy or justice initiative, know of a community need, or are already serving and looking for partners, we'd love to hear from you.
BALM can't take on every project, but we believe meaningful partnerships often begin with a conversation.
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