Support MJM

Below are some examples of how your generosity can impact our clients

•  $50 can help a client with transportation costs.
• $100 provides a family with essential household items after relocating.
• $250 covers utility or food costs for someone rebuilding their life.
• $500 allows MJM to cover one month of play therapy for a child.
• $1,000 will go toward emergency rent assistance.
• $2,500 pays for legal fees including drug and DNA tests, interpretation, mediation, records, and filing fees.
• $5,000 ensures counseling to a client for a year.

Donations can be made online or mailed to MJM at 750 West 5th Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76102.

MJM Funds

General Operations for Free Legal Representation

Through this fund, MJM can cover all legal fees for clients, including representation, DNA and drug testing, records, mediation, filing fees, and more. We strongly believe that vulnerable community members deserve quality representation no matter the severity or length of their case.

Safe Home Program

The Safe Home Program provides our clients with emergency financial aid for necessities like rent, utilities, car repairs, daycare, and more. Through this fund, we can help caregivers create or maintain a safe environment for children to thrive, rather than face homelessness or return to abusive situations due to financial hardship.

Counseling Services

MJM covers therapy fees by independent licensed professionals that provide mental health services including play therapy, and individual and family counseling. These sessions empower our clients by helping them process trauma, learn coping skills, and set individual goals. Together, clients and their therapists assess progress until the client is ready and able to move forward independently.

Donations can be made online or mailed to MJM at 750 West 5th Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76102.

Ask your financial advisor about leaving a gift for MJM in your estate plan, or through your Donor Advised Fund.

The Beatitudes, Discipleship, & the Justice of God

Support Methodist Justice Ministry by purchasing Rev. Brooks Harrington’s latest book, The Beatitudes, Discipleship, & the Justice of God.  You can find it in hard copy or paperback at your favorite retailer or on audio at Kindle and Google Play and all proceeds benefit the mission of MJM.

What does Jesus call his disciples to do? To proclaim correct doctrines about Jesus? To avoid sinners and condemn sin? To impose their values and rules upon the wider society? To be supportive of the church? From the experience of almost three decades of work with the poor, the homeless, the crime victim, and the abused child as a lawyer and a United Methodist minister, Brooks Harrington hears Jesus in the Gospel according to Matthew teaching and showing that discipleship is the Way of Mercy. Disciples are called to endure in following Jesus and trusting the Father despite the challenges of discipleship, the growing misery and evil in the world, the belittling of the power of God’s mercy by the world’s opposing kingdoms, and the delay in the arrival of God’s promised Kingdom of shalom. The Beatitudes are the twelve steps of discipleship to God’s Kingdom of Mercy and blessings from God empowering disciples to persist in mercy in the midst of so much pain, injustice, and opposition. After each of the twelve steps Harrington tells a fictional story of four women struggling to be disciples in our day and time by protecting the poor and undocumented refugees. 

Paloma

Support Methodist Justice Ministry by purchasing Rev. Brooks Harrington’s book, Paloma.  You can find it in hard copy or paperback at your favorite retailer or on audio at Kindle and Google Play and all proceeds benefit the mission of MJM.

Two people from very different backgrounds and circumstances struggle together to find God in a world of random injustice and human evil. Paloma has suffered bitter poverty and neglect as a child and exploitation and addiction as a teen and an adult. John Levi is a lawyer from a privileged, sheltered home who answers the call of God to pastor an inner-city church. Together, Paloma and John Levi hunger and thirst for justice and mercy for the neighbors of the church and for Paloma and her daughter. At first, Paloma is angered by any talk about the presence and power of a God whom she believes has failed to answer her prayers. John Levi is convinced that God is calling him to rescue Paloma from her plight but crosses a line in protecting her from evil men. Facing the consequences of his actions, John Levi struggles with the limitations imposed upon his hunger for justice by the Way of Jesus. Both Paloma and John Levi transcend the crisis to find a new faith.

No Mercy, No Justice

All proceeds from No Mercy, No Justice by Brooks Harrington benefit MJM.

In this book, Rev. Brooks Harrington draws on more than 42 years’ experience as a criminal prosecutor, a pastor of an inner-city church in an impoverished neighborhood, and the founder of a legal ministry protecting indigent victims of family violence and child neglect and abuse. Through moving stories of women and children he has encountered, he shows the terrible toll of the dominant narrative’s version of justice and mercy. And he offers Christians hope with new and startling insights into God’s justice and mercy revealed in the parables of Jesus.