About GPCC
Our Mission
The mission of the Greater Pontiac Community Coalition is to use actions and advocacy to bring about needed individual, social and institutional change to strengthen our community.
Organization Profile
In 1994 Reverend Douglas P. Jones, a community activist and Pastor of Welcome Missionary Baptist Church in Pontiac observed that there were many community help groups in the Pontiac area but they were disjointed and often working at cross purposes, with little results. Hoping to come up with a way for groups to clarify their purposes, he sent out 50 invitations to individuals in a variety of community groups to meet together. Reverend Jones hit a responsive chord. One hundred people came to the first meeting! Although Reverend Jones original idea was to put together some white papers on major concerns of the community, the spirited meeting led to much more than that. The consensus was to become an action group not a policy group. The first step was to come up with a set of goals and missions, on which to base and measure the action of the Greater Pontiac Community Coalition.