News & Events
On Saturday, April 2nd, hundreds of people from Northwest Church will be serving on the campus of Addams Elementary School and working on projects in the surrounding neighborhood. Families from the school and neighborhood have been invited to participate and join volunteer teams who will be working on campus doing landscaping, painting, cleaning and a few special projects for the teachers and staff. In the neighborhood teams will install and check smoke detectors, offer yard work…
March 28, 2011
3:00 PM
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About 140 people gathered at R.O.C.C. Church in central Fresno this past weekend. The purpose of the two day conference was to help people see our city in a new way. It was an amazing weekend with a variety of speakers who shared their experiences and passion for people. You could not leave without feeling that now, more than ever, our churches need to embrace our communities and God's people need to be a part of the neighborhoods in a variety of ways.
There was also great…
March 23, 2011
8:51 AM
Views: 247
Lowell students and their families were invited to a day of planting flowers and cleaning up flower beds on campus. They worked alongside the Lowell staff for a morning filled with digging, planting, raking and sweeping.
It was great to see so many smiling faces and eager hands making the campus look more like spring.
For weeks to come, those children will walk by those flowerbeds with a sense of pride in their school, a feeling of accomplishment and great memories of a…
March 14, 2011
12:54 PM
Views: 622
Neighborhood Thrift has been in business since March 2008. They started out in a 2,000 square foot store and soon realized they would need a larger location in order to offer job training and employment opportunities to the community. In September 2009 Neighborhood Thrift moved into a 20,000 square foot location at 353 East Olive Avenue. They have been able to employ many community residents, and also work with job development programs to allow those with little to no work…
March 08, 2011
2:15 PM
Views: 406
HUNDREDS of volunteers from Clovis Hills and El Encino were expecting to work in the rain OR SNOW on Saturday, but they showed up ready to serve because it was their "Mission of Love". They were part of the team, and rain or shine, they had things to get done! But there was no rain; you could hear some who were disappointed that they didn't get just a little snow, but the weather was beautiful and the skies were about as blue as they…
February 28, 2011
8:23 AM
Views: 400
Clovis First Baptist Church provided sweatshirts for all the kids at West Fresno Elementary School. How cool is that?
February 25, 2011
10:54 AM
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Rain or shine, Clovis Hills will be spending the weekend in the neighborhood of Sequoia Middle School, serving on Saturday and celebrating on Sunday! They will be "Gone Serving" and will not be holding services at Clovis Hills this weekend, but at Sequoia Middle School instead. El Encino Baptist Church and Clovis Hills are working together to serve this neighborhood year round, and hundreds of people have already signed up to serve during this upcoming weekend event. They will…
February 22, 2011
8:20 AM
Views: 669
Habitat for Humanity, United One Productions and Every Neighborhood Partnership are working together to help empower the residents around the Mary Ella Brown Community Center to transform their neighborhood. The three organizations are collaborating to restore some of the homes in the community, build new homes for low income families and provide activities for the youth and residents to engage in year round. This is a long term partnership that will take…
February 08, 2011
9:54 PM
Views: 229
The people that work at Neighborhood Thrift have grown to become family since they opened their doors in 2008. If you have visited the furniture section at Neighborhood Thrift you have likely met Stephen Jones who has been on staff since November 2009. Stephen was recently able to purchase a house on the west side of Fresno. When the first rains came he quickly realized he had a leak in the roof and his "family" at Neighborhood Thrift wanted to find a way to help. They called…
January 31, 2011
7:58 AM
Views: 487
On Saturday, January 22nd, Bethany Church held their first Saturday Sports at Williams Elementary. You never know what to expect on the first day of something new, but volunteers were ready with crafts, activities, games and smiles but the kids started showing up and kept coming!
They were greeted at the check-in table and anxious to start having fun! Final count that morning was 91 kids! Plenty of parents were there too, and a few of them expressed appreciation for a safe place…
January 26, 2011
6:46 AM
Views: 347