Videographer/Story Teller Needed

Embrace Richmond is a family and like all families to fully understand us, you must understand the stories that shape us.  Every month as evidenced by this newsletter, God does amazing things and we want to share the stories and insights with the broader community.  We are looking for someone to help us do that through [...]

Global Youth and Missions Day

On Saturday, April 25th Embrace Richmond held a Youth project here for Americorps’ Youth and Global Missions Day. 20 youth showed to help put together head boards and foot boards for our transitioning homeless clients. The youth were split into groups and raced against one another to see which group could construct the most head [...]

Embrace Richmond Receives the “Good Neighbor Award” from The American Red Cross.

 The Good Neighbor Award recognizes an individual, organization or business outside of the American Red Cross that has made a significant humanitarian contribution to the local community in support of the Red Cross.  The recipient has demonstrated exceptional initiative in identifying and meeting one or more community needs through actions that resulted in provisions of [...]

Thank you to St. Gabriels!

A Big thank you goes out to St. Gabriel’s for bringing over 85 youth and adults to help bless a family, serve in our warehouse, make a basketball court for our guys and volunteers from The Healing Place and others to play on, and for finishing up some projects at the Highland Park house, including planting flowers, for [...]

Rise Richmond at Embrace

On March 29th, Embrace Richmond was blessed to have over 100 volunteers in our building and at our house in Highland Park giving of their time on a Sunday morning. They did various projects within the warehouse, including blessing a family moving from the shelter into their new home to yard work and painting at [...]

From the Director

In the past year close to 1,000 individuals have taken part in service events through Embrace Richmond.  As an increasing number of congregations elect to engage in urban ministry, our Embrace team has been prayerfully considering how to help people move from one time events into relational ministry.  
Our Encourager Program was developed for this purpose.  It [...]

AmeriCorps Positions Available

Embrace Richmond will be filling 4 AmeriCorps positions over the next six weeks. These are part-time stipend volunteer positions requiring between 28 and 32 hours per week. We are seeking individuals to fill the following roles.
Hospitality Team Coordinator –This individual would work with the hospitality team volunteers to ensure that our clients have a pleasant [...]

Brandermill Church Homeless Series

Brandermill Church graciously invited Embrace Richmond to be a part of a training series around the topic of homelessness and the faith communities response. Embrace is just one of many guest speakers in this series which is open to the public.
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Global Youth Day

Unity Works Weekend Retreat at Richmond Hill!

            For those individuals or groups of people who have enough time commitments throughout their week, but want to get away and want to learn about being effective in the Homeless community- here is your opportunity. We are offering a weekend retreat at Richmond Hill…you don’t want to miss this, it’s sure to be a wonderful [...]