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 [...]

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 [...]

Community Development Efforts Underway in Hillside Court

Homeward statistics indicate that an estimated 25% of all homeless individuals exiting Richmond shelters will be homeless again within a year with estimates of up to 40% reentering homelessness within five years.  Those at highest risk for experiencing homelessness in the future are those who exit the shelter without having secured employment.  In the spring [...]

Summer Youth Interns Needed

Invest some time this summer in the life of a child.  Embrace is looking for two senior high or college age individuals who will work with the Embrace team this summer to insure the youth we serve have a safe, fun, blessed summer.  This is a volunteer opportunity requiring a 6-8 hour a week commitment. [...]

Support Hillside Girl Scout Troop 740!

Here’s the letter Leona Baylor, the troop leader, sent out asking for support:
Dear Girl Scout Supporters;
Thank you so much for your support of the Hillside Girl Scout Troop 740. Your support has been a tremendous help to our girls.
We are asking all our supporters to continue to help us encourage our senior scouts (grades [...]

Monacan & Roger

Yesterday, May 22, Embrace Richmond hosted Monacan High School’s Humanities 10th grade classes. Forty Four students returned for the second time to do their part to serve the community. They were divided into groups that included building beds, sorting bedding, and preparing clothing for donation. After working, they ate lunch and listened to Roger Hines, [...]

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 [...]