Branches has been providing critical services to the Miami-Dade community for 50 Years. Yet, our name was not always Branches. As an organization we have evolved in many ways, not just rebranding from Miami Urban Ministries, to South Florida Urban Ministries and then to Branches, but also in regards to programming and who we serve.
In 1973, Bishop Lloyd Knox proposed to the Miami United Methodist District Board of Mission & Church Extension that an urban ministry be established. Shortly thereafter, Rev. Morrell Robinson was appointed as the organization’s first Urban Minister and Miami Urban Ministries was born.