Fall Habitat Workdays
If you would like to help us build the current Thrivent Habitat Build, all you need to do is show up to the site ready and willing to make a difference. If you want or need a ride, let us know by email. 8am – 4pm Saturday October 22 Saturday October 29 You don’t need to stay the entire time and you don’t need previous Habitat experience. Worksite: 3036 Amay James Ave. View Larger...
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Winter Months … (Mondays at Advent Lutheran & Saturdays at Holy Comforter Episcopal) Room in the Inn is a cold-weather month overnight shelter with meals, transportation and Bible study to the homeless. Students are always needed to drive shuttle vans, setup rooms, cook supper for guests, visit with guests, cook breakfast for guests, and/or clean up. Room in the Inn is a ministry of the Urban Ministry Center.
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Firefly – Mondays & Wednesdays at 3:45pm Meets at Hickory Grove Presbyterian … go to back of church … enter through covered doors. We created Firefly two years ago and it has become a weekly after-school program geared toward children at-risk, in need, and facing the day to day struggle of poverty. Here students have the opportunity to share themselves through games, arts, music, reading, tutoring and the like. Our mission is to motivate and keep these kids active,...
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Dates Coming Soon. We do more work with Habitat for Humanity than any other collegiate / young adult ministry in Charlotte. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry which strives to bring affordable housing to those who are ineligible for conventional financing. Families are required to invest 400 hours of “sweat equity” into building their own home, and you can help provide the rest.
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Dates Coming Soon. At the heart of our Urban Renewal Project, is service to our neighbors in Christ. We focus upon meeting the basic housing needs of Charlotte’s Urban Ministry Center’s chronically homeless program. In meeting these needs, it is our desire to develop relationships with brand new homeowners, who are now off the streets. Yet, most of these homes are in need of serious repair. So, let’s serve the way Christ served by providing for the physical spiritual.
Read MoreCharlotte Crop Walk
Sunday October 16 CROP Walk is a community service and fundraising appeal for Church World Service, an organization of 36 denominations united together to relieve poverty, aid in development and provide disaster and refugee assistance worldwide. The annual Charlotte CROP Walk is held in the fall. This 3.8 mile walk begins at 2:30 p.m.on Elizabeth Avenue. This is a great event for the whole family! Please consider being a walker this year. If you are unable to walk, sponsor one of...
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