“A Way out of No Way”

*We are here. God is here, too!*

It's hard to describe Good Trouble Church to people who have never been with us. One thing you could say is that when we are gathered, the rules of the world no longer apply.
Everything is free. Everyone has gifts to share. And we gather in a circle honoring every voice.
A grassroots, Christ-rooted, faith expansive community coming together in the name of healing and human flourishing, GTC is a ministry centering ***love and freedom, leadership and liberation, community care, and sacred ceremony.***
A church founded by those most impacted by systemic racism and the war on drugs, Good Trouble is brimming with life: Farm to Stoop Free Market, Family Life Worship, Red Shed Village, Leadership & Liberation School, Good Trouble Guardians, The Firewalkers Creative Expression Fellows, Healing Together Fellows, Bible Study, Good Trouble Outreach & Chill Zone, Social Work & Support Drop-in… all in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore. A ministry of the Delaware-Maryland Synod ELCA, GTC is POC- and trans-led.

Everything we do is about love and dignity, justice and joy.
Creating an inclusive sacred space of spiritual nourishment to bless each other before God in community-led, decolonizing, Afro-indigenous liturgy & ceremony
Rites of passage, awakening ancestral wisdom, healing
Leadership & Liberation school
Sharing groceries, warm meals, clothing, mutual aid, resource connection
Harm reduction & abolition-based community care
Land sovereignty
Founded and run Red Shed Village, an outdoor village where three people find safer shelter, a healing environment, and robust supportive network to accompany them
Most of all, ***we are family together***

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Family Life

Prayer, Food & Friendship
Ceremony & Sacred Song
Creative Self-Expression Harm Reduction
Worship & Spiritual Sustenance

Partners: Church of the Redeemer Episcopal Church,
Zion Lutheran Church

Good Trouble Outreach & Chill Zone

Zone of safety and belonging

Games, music, one-to-one’s, harm reduction supplies

Social Work & Support
Drop-in

Tuesdays 12-4 PM

Meet with our social worker for help
with ID, housing, benefits, referrals

Showers, snacks, PPE, Naloxone,
Fentanyl test strips, condoms,
Hygiene items, laundry
Hang out, connect with friends

Grey door next to 25 E 20th St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Leadership and Liberation School

Monthly workshops. Problem-posing pedagogy of community learning and empowerment.
Principles of Restorative Justice, History of Redlining, Abolition, etc.

Farm to Stoop
Free Market

Groceries, produce, warm meals,

clothing, flea market!

2nd and 4th Wednesdays 2:30-3:30 PM
Ynot Lot, 4 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21218

Participants:

ELCA World Hunger, Samaritan Kitchen, Divinity Lutheran Church, Salem Lutheran Church in Catonsville, So What Else Baltimore, MOM's Organic Market, First Fruits Farm

Good Trouble Guardians

Building community resilience and connection, especially with those made most vulnerable, through harm reduction based street one-to-one’s; prevent violence; attend to the hurting through connection to needed resources and community care; de-escalate conflict and intervene in crisis; peace-keeping presence; keeping community safe without calling the police.

Partners: Baltimore Community Foundation, North Ave Market, Mobtown Ballroom

Creative Expression Fellows

9 month long curriculum based on hip hop, poetry, and scripture to nurture, develop, and deepen gifts for creative expression. Led by Professor Unique Robinson, Baltimore native, hip hop artist and poet and MICA professor

Partners: ELCA Disability Office