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Gun Buyback November 7
Rochester Police Holding Gun Buyback Chief Ciminelli asked us to announce the Rochester Police Department’s Gun Buy Back Program. The buy-back will take place on Saturday, November 7th, at the Miracle Deliverance Faith Center on Whitney Street just off the Child Street Exit from Route 490 in Rochester’s Southeast neighborhood. For detailed information on the program, please refer to the press release below and feel free to make copies of the attached flyer to post. News Releas Mayor Lovely A. Warren, City Council President Loretta...
read moreProclaiming Peace
Missions Works Home & Abroad We were given the opportunity to share about the witness and work of His Branches at a wonderfully missions-minded gathering yesterday afternoon and evening at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Greece, NY. The event was called “Proclaiming Peace – Missions Works Home & Abroad” and we shared the podium with, as the title promised, gracious men and women serving both at here in Rochester and overseas. Rev. Andrew Selle spoke from the Word and personal experience about peacemaking with...
read moreGarden wins City award
The Arnett Block Association garden committee won an award at the City of Rochester’s annual volunteer appreciation event held at the Strong Museum yesterday evening. Volunteers and friends of the garden were in cheerful attendance to celebrate with us, tour the Museum, and catch up with other gifted gardeners and dedicated volunteers from all over the city. It was an encouraging event for all with special kudos for our wonderful neighbors. Let’s give them all a hand – or better still, lend a hand in the garden to help out...
read moreSupermoon completes tetrad
This year the night of September 27-28, which heralds the start of the biblical celebration of Sukkot (the “Feast of Tabernacles“), will bring another “blood moon.” To skywatchers, the dramatic term refers to the copper color the moon takes on during an eclipse, but to some observers, this event – the fourth and final eclipse in an unusual tetrad of four consecutive total lunar eclipses coinciding with major biblical holidays, each separated by six lunar months – will fill a biblical prophecy of the apocalypse. The...
read moreLight and Life – Fall 2015
Take a break! MCCF is hosting a Regional Conference on Saturday, October 17 in Rochester, New York and you don’t want to miss it! Click here for the whole scoop, then sign up and invite your friends. And here’s a PDF brochure you can print and use to help us get the word out! Light and Life – Being living letters in a post-Christian...
read moreHealing the Hurt
Good morning everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that in wake of the recent tragedy at the Boys and Girls Club there will be a meeting in the Wilson High School auditorium at 501 Genesee Street on Tuesday evening, September 1, from 5 – 8 pm. It’s called “Healing the Hurt.” Dr. Kevin Coffey will be discussing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and mental heath after these types of situations. As our children and staff get ready for another school year we thought this would be a helpful gathering for us,...
read moreGrief in our neighborhood
Wednesday night, August 19th, will ring in the minds and hearts of our neighborhood and the Rochester community for years to come. It was a night that started out with some good, clean fun at a Boys and Girls Club basketball game on Genesee Street, right across from Wilson High School in Rochester’s 19th Ward and within several blocks of our main ministry offices. When the game was over a crowd of kids poured out into the Club parking lot beside Westside Health Services and hung out for a while talking, laughing, and playing around with...
read moreGarden wins award!
Congratulations! Your garden at Arnett/Wellington has won the Flower City Garden Contest award for Best Community Enhancement Garden (Westside)! The judges loved the variety of plant material in the garden, the way that the garden transforms a corner lot into a community gathering space, and the collaborative structure by which the garden is maintained! Please mark your calendars for the Volunteer Recognition and Award Ceremony on Thursday, October 22 (starting around 6 pm). We’d like to present you with a Flower City Garden award at the...
read more10th Annual Block Party!
Posted August 2 – We just had our 10th Annual Arnett Block Party yesterday, and it was a great success! The weather was perfect, volunteers and participants arrived early to set up, the street was closed off, and the neighborhood moved in! We had Happy the Clown, free hot dogs with chips and all the fixings, drinks, story time, Airplay Juggler Jeff Peden, free books, free raffle prizes, horse rides in the street, The Magic Guy, free sunglasses from Embracing Options, health booth, tours of a Rural Metro Ambulance, a Fire Safety mock...
read moreLions of Judah
Posted August 2 – One of the many big hits at our 10th Annual Arnett Block Party yesterday was a talented youth group from our neighborhood called “Encouragement Lions of Judah.” As described on their Facebook page, the group is “seeking to revitalize our community with the Love of God. [By] allowing our children to explore their gifts from God through encouragement, uplifting materials, TV programs we are instilling the community with spiritual/physical attributes of Gods Grace.” As you will see in the video...
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