About us
Forty years on
Maple Ave.
Southwest Emergency Services is a Christian-based nonprofit founded by a coalition of local congregations to help families in crisis in Southwest Baltimore County.
Our mission
We provide food, personal care items, and financial assistance to neighbors facing an emergency, and we do it with dignity. No one asking for food on a one-time basis is turned away.
For more than four decades we have operated out of our own building on Maple Ave in Arbutus. SWES has no paid staff. The board, the office, and the pantry floor are all volunteers, which is how 98 percent of our income reaches clients directly.
Why support SWES?
Forty years in the same neighborhood, run entirely by volunteers.
98%
Goes to clients
98 percent of income goes directly to families as food and financial assistance.
40+
Years serving
Established more than four decades ago in our own building on Maple Ave.
19
Member churches
Founded and sustained by a coalition of local congregations across Southwest Baltimore County.
501(c)(3)
Tax deductible
A registered nonprofit managed by an all-volunteer board and staff.
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Matthew 25:40
Member churches
Nineteen congregations founded and sustain SWES. Paste the full list from the current site here, corrected to “Charlestown United Protestant Church.”
- Charlestown United Protestant Church
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- Add remaining churches