Organizations that Make a Difference

  • The Martin Luther King Center has a busy active school program for kids, especially the students of School 43.

  • The Raphael Health Center provides high quality health care that is affordable to all people. Raphael provides mental, medical, and dental health services to many people who are unable to afford this level of care anywhere else.

  • Gleaners Food Bank provides food directly to those in need, but also provides food to many food pantries and feeding programs throughout Indianapolis.

  • Bread for the World enables and organizes people to contact their elected leaders to advocate for laws and programs that help the millions who are food insecure. They have special actions that you can take right now to help during the pandemic.

  • The local National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) chapter is offering online support groups and more.

Gardeners:

Donate fresh garden overflow: deliver your fresh produce to the Boulevard Place Food Pantry directly or contact a member of the beyond-the-walls team to organize a delivery. Let us know approximate weight for our tally for the year!

Walkers:

Sign up for CROP walk (Oct. 5, 2025)

Sign up for the NAMI walk (June 8, 2025)

…Or donate to one of our walkers or to the Fairview team at any time of the year, raising money for hunger and/or mental health.

Crafters:

If you can knit or crochet, School 43 has requested child-sized scarves, hats, ear-warmers and mittens. Crafters can drop off their creations in the Narthex to be delivered by November.

A Handbook of Help for Mental Health

This Handbook is designed to be a time-saver so that all people in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood and greater Indianapolis area can go to one source for all kinds of help relating to mental health. The Handbook project began a year ago when several Butler-Tarkington Neighborhood Churches (St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Fairview Presbyterian Church, Unitarian Universalist Church, and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church) joined together to sponsor a mental health speaker series for the community. Follow-up dialogue between the neighborhood churches identified the goal to produce this Handbook as a tangible resource that Butler-Tarkington neighborhood churches could share with their respective congregations and communities served.
Find the Handbook here.

Ghana Lituracy Project

Fairview Presbyterian Church has a special and enduring place in its heart for the country and people of Ghana, thousands of miles and oceans away. Over the last 20 years, Fairview member (accomplished educator and writer) Charlotte Anokwa and the Anokwa family have challenged Fairview Presbyterian Church to see how our congregation’s heart, mission, and belief in God can extend far beyond Fairview Presbyterian’s corner of the world at 46th Street and Capitol Avenue in Indianapolis by serving the needs of Presbyterian churches in Ghana.

Charlotte Anokwa (left) with PSC students graduating with their Bibles.

Charlotte Anokwa (left) with PSC students graduating with their Bibles.

Fairview is currently supporting the small rural village of Kyebi, in the Akyem Abuakwa district of southern Ghana. The primary objective is to increase literacy in the local language as a stepping-stone towards literacy in English, which is the official language and the medium of instruction in schools. Without English, a child cannot pass any exam for admission into middle and secondary schools. With economic hardships and lack of resources, Sunday schools in most Presbyterian congregations in Ghana have completely died out. In a country where illiteracy is as high as 90% for males and even higher for females, literacy education through the church ensures ability to read and appreciate the Bible and also promotes advancement in the formal educational system.

Charlotte and local PSC Volunteers

Charlotte and local PSC Volunteers

What can you do?

  • Make direct financial contribution to the Presbyterian Second-Chance Project/ Kyebi Library through Fairview Presbyterian Church. This can be a general contribution, or go toward specific items:

-       $5.00 each of very basic easy to read books, available in Ghana. Each book will have a book plate with your name on it.

-       $10 - 15.00 each of a Twi or English Bible.

-       $3,000.00 - 5,000.00 for a complete library for a village. Each village is at various stages of trying to build something for themselves.

  • Donate very basic, easy to read, paperback books.

  • Tell other congregations about it.

  • Sponsor its establishment in a congregation you know

  • Pray for growth and sustainability.