Happy New Year!
Greetings from the Morehouses! We deeply appreciate all your support and look forwardto serving together with you in the coming year. Click here to read our holiday...
Read MorePastoral Care, Mental Health
Bishop Orville Beckford and Bishop Herman Dailey discuss the benefits of training to recognize mental health problems. His Branches has been hosting a monthly meeting of community pastors and mental health professionals from the University of Rochester Medical Center for the past four years. Recently City Newspaper ran an article about the program: In the city’s underserved African-American and Hispanic communities, ministers often encounter people suffering from serious mental health problems. And frequently, it’s before anyone else, including family members and physicians, says...
Read MoreGMC Open House on 2/2
On Saturday, February 2nd from Noon to 4 pm we’ll be holding an Open House at the Gerhardt Ministry Center (906-918 N. Goodman St. next door to Joy Community Church). Our satellite medical office (Joy Family Medicine) and crisis pregnancy care center (Embracing Options) will be open as well as a food pantry (the Hope Shop) next door. Staff will be there to show you the facilities and answer any questions you may have. Refreshments will be served. Come and bring your friends and...
Read MoreMerry Christmas!
Merry Christmasfrom the Morehouses!As time goes by we are more and more grateful for our family and friends, our health, the Life we have in Christ, and our spiritual family at Joy Community Church. We’d love to hear from you and spend more time together! In the meantime, click here to read our annual letter to friends and family and check out some of our candid...
Read MoreEntrepreneurship Workshop
On Wednesday, October 10th from 3-5 pm His Branches will host a workshop sponsored by Rochester Youth Year and led by Bob Tobin, Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the University of Rochester’s Center for Entrepreneurship, titled “An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship.” We’ve been chosen as hosts through Jessica Speares, our full-time RYY worker. As Bob describes it:“A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas business entrepreneurs typically measure...
Read MoreCut the Violence Event
Willie J. Lightfoot, County Legislator and member of our Board, will be hosting another “Cut the Violence Initiative” event on Monday, September 17th from 4-7 pm at the Jefferson Avenue Childhood Development Center, 793 Jefferson Avenue. From 3-4 pm a special community forum will be held to talk about the recent rash of violence in the neighborhood. Community agencies, including Embracing Options and Rochester Youth Outreach, will have information booths, and youth will be offered free haircuts at New Creations Unisex Barbershop, 649 Jefferson Avenue. Willie has this to say about...
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