SInce 2007, our church community has been gathering up broken lives and patiently removing the sharp edges so that people can create new images of themselves in our greater Middletown community.
Starting with seven homeless men in the basement of the First United Methodist Church in downtown Middletown, The Gathering has emerged as a spiritual and organizational leader in restoring our downtown neighborhood. We are committed to the hard work of life-restoration and development of our urban poor by offering relationships and programs that focus on providing a “hand up” instead of a “handout.”
The Gathering is a faith community dedicated to eliminating homelessness, poverty, and substance abuse in our downtown neighborhood.