Good Trouble Church
Baltimore, Maryland
A grassroots, Christ-rooted, faith expansive community coming together in the name of healing and human flourishing, Good Trouble Church is a ministry centering love and freedom, leadership and liberation, community care and sacred ceremony.
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Baltimore, MD
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85% African American
We are here. God is here too!
It's hard to describe Good Trouble Church to people who have never been. One thing you could say is that when they are gathered, the rules of the world no longer apply.
Everything is free. Everyone has gifts to share. And they gather in a circle honoring every voice.
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, Outreach & Chill Zone, Social Work & Support Drop-in… all in the Station North neighborhood of Baltimore. GTC is POC- and trans-led.
Good Trouble Church “A Way out of No Way” is a BIPOC- and trans-led grassroots congregation in central Baltimore of leaders who are changing the world. Founded in 2020, Good Trouble was started by and continues to draw together a community of people who are traditionally marginalized and made vulnerable by systemic oppression, redlining, and the racist war on drugs.
Centering the leadership and following the visions of those most directly impacted by unjust systems, they celebrate Blackness and indigeneity, recovering ancestral wisdom and practices in order to rise and resist the death-dealing forces of white supremacy and colonization. The Gospel of love and liberation is their guide as they engage in their own style of gospel-centered resilience-based organizing that they have cultivated over these years, living out the world as it should be in their neighborhood. As they care for each other and imagine a future for God’s people that is just, they organically question and upend existing oppressive systems.
Everything they 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, 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, being family together
Find out more about The Red Shed Village and how Good Trouble Church is working with the community for food, clothing, and shelter.
Working to turn the world upside down so that its right side up.
The folks at Good Trouble are here to honor and empower each other, and turn the world upside down so their beauty and truth can shine. Together, they create a sacred space folks we can bless one other before God and heal as a people. As they do so, they find the world around them transforming. Working together to bring the realm of heaven close, they constantly see God snatching us from the claws of death, and raising life out of dying. The Creator is always reaching for us, so they reach for each other – and come to know the grace that rescues from the death dealt by the world. Outcasts who embrace each other in solidarity, they have found the great power of being for one another.
