Our Community Partners

Nothing is more important than our relationship with our community. Recent history has brought an exciting and advantageous change for College Park as we have created an equitable and diverse community offering ministry, arts, outreach, and affordable housing among mission-aligned, independent partners on a reimagined historic church campus in the heart of College Park.

CRP Community Restoration Project

Community Restoration Project

Our communities thrive and grow when the families and individuals who live there are in a position to succeed. The Community Restoration Project sees these underserved communities as an opportunity to provide the resources necessary to influence and ensure families and individuals have the tools they need to become self-sufficient and maintain productive and successful lives.

Marddy’s Shared Kitchen

Marddy’s Shared Kitchen operates right here on the CPFUMC campus, and their mission is to preserve and promote culinary culture, focusing on economic inclusion, business development, and growth opportunities for local food entrepreneurs.

Marddys
PushPush Arts

PushPush Arts

This collective works to develop artists and ideas throughout the Greater Atlanta area. It’s an amazing hub of creative innovation and strategic cultivation, and it all happens right here on the College Park First UMC campus!

ATL Aircraft Dispatcher Academy

Owned and operated by long-term College Park First UMC member Robert Longino, the ATL Dispatcher Academy helps train the best and brightest aircraft dispatchers and licensed airmen in the country. Fully certified by the FAA, and it all happens right here.

Atlanta Dispatcher Academy
Good Places

Good Places Properties

This organization has become the driving force behind connecting College Park First UMC with many of the amazing community partners we work with today.

Tapestry Development Group

The mission of Tapestry Development Group is to foster the development and preservation of rental housing that is affordable for low-income households. They are committed to the principles of financial, physical, environmental, and social sustainability, and are presently building the affordable housing unit on the College Park First UMC campus.

Tapestry Development Group
Diamond College Park

Diamond College Park

Diamond College Park, a new construction, 60-unit, mixed-income multifamily community in the City of College which opened in 2024 sits across the street from our campus and houses some of the PushPush Artists and former Main Street Academy students.

ION College Park

Ion College Park is an exciting collaboration between Good Places, KNGDM Group, and College Park First United Methodist church whose mission is to become the spark that seamlessly integrates affordability, arts, culture, and ministry.  Located next to the College Park MARTA Station at 1805 Harvard Ave, ION offers sixteen thoughtfully designed studios inside this historic landmarked building for purchase or rent.

Ion