The Hillside Court Tenant Council Needs Cleaning Supplies!

Every year on Hillside’s Community Day, the Tenant Council does a raffle which is free for the residents to enter. If they are selected, the children receive a bookbag full of school supplies and the adults receive laundry baskets full of cleaning supplies. We would like to help out by providing some of these things [...]

Looking for Information About the Chair Affair?

The 2nd Annual CARITAS Furniture Bank Chair Affair will be held on November 14, 2009 at Charles Luck Studio at 7 p.m. For more information, you can visit www.caritasworks.org and also, start keeping your eyes peeled for www.CaritasChairAffair.org which should be up with all the information you need soon!

Photos from the cook out!

On Saturday the 18th, Eikon came to the 3rd Ave. house to finish up the painting and for a cook out! They did a wonderful job adding the finishing touches to the work the Impact Richmond group had done. The cookout launched our new partnership with one of Eikon’s missional communities. The community Flicker of [...]

Youth Invasion Update

We would like to begin introducing you to some of the wonderful people we have met in getting to know the community. This month we would like you to meet Yasia Clinton. Yasia is 15 years old and lives in Hillside Court. She says that she often does not have things [...]

Thank you to Impact Richmond!

And an extra special thank you to Mike Powers who coordinated all of these wonderful youth to paint the Embrace House on 3rd Avenue! They worked really hard scraping and painting  all of last week to beautify the house, in which one of our Americorps members, Charles Fitzgerald, lives. It is now a pretty light [...]

The Adventures of Koni and Lindsey-Part 3!

So, for the last week and a half we were Wendy-less. She went on a much deserved vacation and Tiffany, Sylvia, Koni, and I were left to hold down the fort. Our Wendy-free time actually started off really well with a trip to Maymont for some of our Hillside friends. We didn’t really know how [...]

New Backpacks and School Supplies Needed!

Every year at back to school time, the Hillside Court Tenant Association gives away bookbags full of school supplies to the neighborhood kids who otherwise may not have new school things to use. As a part of our partnership with the Tenant Association, we would love to be able to provide some backpacks and supplies [...]

We need potting soil!

We are doing a craft with our Thursday morning youth leaders group which would create decorative animal pots from old soda bottles and milk jugs, but we need your help to get the potting soil and flowering annuals! We need about four large bags of potting soil and a few packs of flowers for our [...]

Got Old Bikes or Locks?

Our friends in Hillside would love to have them! Just the other day, we were in Hillside at the community center during the time they give out lunches to neighborhood kids. The kids have to eat their lunches inside, and while they were eating, two boys bikes were taken by older boys. Most of the [...]

Hole in Our Gospel?

In his book “The Hole in our Gospel”, Richard Stearns is the president of World Vision U.S., crafts one of the most compelling arguments for the centrality of mission to the Christian Tradition that I have ever read.   Read more about this book on our Unity Works blog at www.unity-works.org.