Local & Global Partners

Our community is everything to us. Milford First touches lives locally, regionally, and around the world, making God’s love known by caring for people and places in need.

Program Partners

We work alongside several local organizations to create programming that serves the needs of our community, creating safe spaces for people to all ages to find healing, wholeness and hope through Christ’s love.

  • Stephen Ministry is a one-on-one Christian caregiving program currently utilized in over 13,000 congregations around the world. Since 1999, Stephen Ministers at Milford First have helped over 100 care receivers cope with challenging situations that life has thrown their way.

  • Milford Exempted Village Schools serves approximately 6,600 students through nine school buildings in Milford. We’ve worked with the district on various initiatives over the years. Our WonderKids program partners with five elementary schools to provide after-school literacy help to nearly 50 students each week.

  • Child Focus provides a broad range of early learning, mental health, school, foster care and community services. to more than 20,000 children, families and adults across our region each year. We’ve utilized their experience to resource families and offer mental health workshop to our community.

Mission Partners

Each year, Milford First’s Missions Committee commits financial, material, and volunteer support for the following ministries and community organizations.

  • The Carolyn Sirker Christian School in Nicaragua: funding tuition, uniforms and hot noon meals for three students at this school in Nicaragua

  • Kairos Prison Ministry: a statewide ministry of volunteers who take the gospel into Ohio prisons through weekend experiences for our incarcerated brothers and sisters

  • Milford Miami Ministry (MMM): a local ministry meeting the needs of Milford and Clermont County families through the food pantry, clothing closet and emergency assistance

  • The Wesley Foundation: a student ministry located on the campus of the University of Cincinnati

  • YWCA House of Peace: a safe sanctuary for abused women and their families located in Clermont County

  • Jackson Area Ministries Seed Program: a ministry of The United Methodist Church providing vegetable seeds to people in southeast Ohio, increasing the quantity and the quality of food available to families in need

  • UMCH Family Services of Ohio: a ministry of the West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church that provides homes, finds homes, and strengthens homes for children and families in need

The committee also sets aside a significant portion of its budget for possible and unforeseen support of future ministries, congregational support, youth mission work, as well as denominational groups like Volunteers in Mission and Global Missionaries.

Local Memberships

We’re all better together. Milford First belongs to local business organizations that enhance our connection to leaders and changemakers throughout Milford, Clermont County and the Greater Cincinnati region.

  • Christian Family Credit Union

  • Milford Miami Township Chamber of Commerce

  • Clermont County Chamber of Commerce