What Is FCS Urban Ministries?

Family Consultation Service was established in 1976 as a nonprofit counseling agency for low-income clients. Originally serving children and families referred by Atlanta area juvenile courts, it eventually broadened its mission to pursue lasting solutions to some of the underlying causes of poverty.

Today, FCS Urban Ministries (as it is now known) is a community development organization. It focuses its work almost exclusively in four adjacent urban Atlanta neighborhoods: Summerhill, Grant Park, East Lake, and South Atlanta. With a staff of sixty, most of whom live in these neighborhoods, FCS constructs housing, operates businesses and a school for at-risk children, and provides other human services. It works closely with churches to mobilize people and resources that bring hope and creative new options to the city. Attracting middle-income people of faith to relocate in urban communities has been one of the ministry's most significant efforts. It has developed four mixed-income subdivisions and is currently implementing this reneighboring strategy throughout the entire South Atlanta community. Its goal is to create in the midst of urban blight wholesome places for families to flourish.

FCS Urban Ministries, Inc.
750 Glenwood Avenue, SE
P.O. Box 17628
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: (404) 627-4304
Fax: (404) 624-5299