A consortium of Newton County's churches created FaithWorks in August of 2005 after a series of meetings. Churches and other existing ministries to the needy were involved in those discussions. At those meetings, it was agreed that the growing numbers of Newton County families needing emergency financial aid for rent and utility bills was posing a critical challenge to the community.

Six churches signed on initially as sponsors of the new ministry, but today there are thirty four sponsoring churches, each of whose senior pastor and an appointed lay representative sit on the Board of Directors that meets three times yearly. On a daily basis, operations are overseen by a part-time paid Executive Director, Dennis Cheek, and a ten-member Executive Committee meets monthly to set policy and goals and to review activities.

There is no higher or better pattern for extending aid to the financially or spiritually broken in our midst than the life and teachings of Jesus Christ Himself whose ministry began among the disenfranchised, reviled and unempowered of those times. "The poor you will always have with you," He said. That is true and remains true despite the best efforts of countless loving and caring individuals and charities. In the Book of James, Verse 2:26, we read, "… so faith apart from works is dead.", and therein we at FaithWorks accept our charge. The verse inspired the name adopted by sponsoring churches at our inception.