The Concord Baptist Christfund is a contemporary bright star in the church’s long history of organizing the resources of the church to make the difference in people’s lives. Funded at $1 million, the Christfund now benefits people far beyond our own congregation and causes far beyond our own neighborhood.

The Concord Baptist Christfund is in keeping with our church’s legacy. About twenty years after the 1847 founding of “The Concord street Baptist Church of Christ (colored),” two of our founding members, Ms. Maria Hampton and Mrs. Hagar Washington rallied Black Brooklynites to support the “Colored Poor of Brooklyn” fund. Under the aegis of the Female Union Relief Association Concord Church provided financial support to the “sick and suffering poor.”

In the 1880’s, the church organized the Concord Mutual Relief Society to share resources with people who needed to bury their dead, recover from illness and injury, and secure homes for their families. The congregation later provided critical and ongoing financial support to the Howard Colored Children’s Orphanage, the Brooklyn Home for the Colored Aged, and Brooklyn’s YMCA. They provided financial support for the anti-lynching campaigns led by Ida B. Wells Barnett; and provided support for the infrastructure development of the freedom and civil rights movement building campaigns.