Cincinnati Change

Ammons United Methodist Church under the leadership of Vera Cole has provided leadership to a group of Cincinnati churches that after one year are continuing to mobilize their men to bring about change not only in their neighborhoods, but also to the people who live there. Cincinnati Change current mission is to encourages increased economic activity in Hamilton County with Ammons and it's partners. We will create companies that support the ministry like Hughes Electronics did the Hughes Medical Institute through trusts setup by each company that supports our youth.

Cincinnati Change is proposing to create with Ammons United Methodist Church a Cincinnati Company called Churches Can Change Cincinnati NOW, Inc. (C4N). The mission of the company is to provide consulting, homeland safety and security infrastructure management, design and construction from our headquarters in Cincinnati as a faith based enterprise that is owned in part by the ministries of the churches involved and the companies created as church affiliated companies who will pay their taxes on unrelated business income and use the rest to support the needs of young men and boys.

During 2007, more than $500 billion dollars is being allocated for and through the federal, state and local government units in the United States and our for profit businesses will take advantage of these contracts with it's faith based sponsors in the following areas -:

1. Peace in the Hood, Jobs in the Hood Initiative
2. Veterans Assistance program operation
3. Creative Class Workforce and Network Development Program
4. Third Frontier Workforce Development Program
5. Housing program to build a million homes for young men and their families
6. ReEntry of Young Men into society
7. Preparing for and responding to future catastrophes
8. Immigration & Secure Boarders
9. U.S. Gulf Coast Reconstruction
10. Regional National Energy Policy Partnership Demostration Program

Cincinnati Change has created a program that serve the nation through and it's partner The American Academy of Distance Learning and Training, Inc.(AADLT) who has joined with Beauchamp Tower Corporation, Inc. and it's partners to support their proposal called Operation Enduring Service (OES) which will the basis for the creation of a program to employ over 1,000 of countys young men in 2007 through the 100 male March Ministry of Ammons United Methodist Church.

The 100 Male March Ministries was launched one year ago on a 5th Sunday with a walk in a troubled Walnut Hills neighborhood from Peoples Corner to Ammons United Methodist Church. They will gather this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 to celebrate one year of action at 934 E. McMillan St. and march to Ammons United Methodist Church. Each man is asked to bring a boy to mentor. Call 513.545.7905 for more information.

According to Melvin Williams, president of the Cincinnati District United Methodist Men and manager of the CVS Pharmacy on East McMillan Street at Pebbles Corner, "We're trying to put a human face on Christianity from the male point of view."