“Tell Them What You Know” Neighborhood Ministries is a story-telling community. We have been privileged to have the front seat to overcomers, ordinary people who live extra-ordinary lives. Mother’s Day is a perfect time to tell the story of an extra-ordinary mom. Patty Reel is that mom. She lost her battle with brain cancer, just…
READ MORE >>Traditionally at Easter, during our church services and celebrations of the day, we have baptisms. It’s the kind of baptism where people bring testimony to their changed life, written down, and come prepared to go under the water in identification with Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. It’s always a joyful part of our day. We…
READ MORE >>2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of POWER and of love and of a sound mind.” For 40 years, Neighborhood Ministries has sought to empower the less fortunate to break the cycle of poverty. At our Big Event Christmas Fiesta celebrating 40 years of serving our community, we…
READ MORE >>Love. It’s so powerful it can change the world. And it’s certainly changing lives and changing our community! At our Big Event Christmas Fiesta celebrating 40 years of serving our community, Love was felt throughout our campus. It was also an important theme in our program. If you didn’t get a chance to be with…
READ MORE >>This past Saturday, we celebrated 40 years of serving our community with Love, Hope, and Power. Our Big Event Christmas Fiesta was a huge success, and we were blessed beyond measure. God’s blessings poured down upon us — literally! — but the rain did not dampen the spirit of Hope, Love, and power. If you…
READ MORE >>A thankful heart … is medicine for the soul. Muses, philosophers, theologians and mystics have considered the profundity of becoming grateful. The great G.K. Chesterton, a prolific author from the turn of the last century found gratitude to be transformative: “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is…
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