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MLK Luminary Evening
For many years the 19th Ward has celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in a public, community-building manner and will be doing so again this year. On Monday, January 21st there will be luminaries throughout the area. The luminaries themselves are small paper bags weighted down with sand or kitty litter and containing a votive candle. Neighbors make a number of luminaries and set them at the sidewalk edge of their tree lawn from sunset until 9 pm, making a beautiful sight. Some people host warming fires and a hot chocolate stands....
read moreMerry Christmas!
Glory to God in the Highest! Thanks for all your amazing support this year!We’re looking forward to serving together in 2013.Dr. Bill & Susan Morehouse Click here to read our Christmas letter....
read moreChristmas Tree in Park
We have another wonderful Christmas tree for our neighborhood park beside the Arnett Branch Library again this year. Many friends and neighbors contributed to getting it, setting it up, decorating with the School 29 kids, being Library story readers, and coming out to sing Christmas carols with us. Thanks to all for making our tree project such a success!...
read moreFall Newsletter
2012 – A Busy Year We’ve been very busy here at His Branches over the past year serving the families of Rochester in a variety of ways. From patient care to much needed activity for neighborhood youth and critical counseling in the area of life decisions, the staff and volunteers of HBI have been pouring their God-given passions into the work they do for their community. For a full report click here to read our Fall Newsletter, being sent to our local mailing list in print form. As our services to the community grow, we’re challenged...
read moreRunaway Slave showing
The Frederick Douglass Foundation of NY will be hosting two showings of C. L. Bryant’s timely and challenging full-length feature documentary, Runaway Slave, about modern-day slavery right here in the United States. This is a film you will want to preview and then invite all your friends back to see with you. First showing (limited seating): Saturday, October 27th – 7 pm at the Cross Culture Youth Center on the corner of Bay and Goodman Streets. Second showing (open to general public): Friday, November 2nd – 6:30 pm at Joy...
read moreKingdom Ventures eBay video
Our friend Rebecca Fadner got a birthday present Tuesday from eBay. A national online ad campaign launched featuring Kingdom Ventures Inc., the fair trade retailer she runs with her husband, Glenn. The eBay Thanks You campaign launched Tuesday with videos on its YouTube eBay channel of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, designer Jonathan Adler, two for-profit companies, a customer and the Ogden-based Kingdom Ventures. Glenn and Rebecca Fadner, who run Kingdom Ventures, say they’ve already watched the video a dozen or more times and are pleased...
read moreBlock Party HOT!!
Our annual Arnett Block Party yesterday was a wonderful success in spite of the HEAT, thanks to the generous participation of so many amazing volunteers and contributors. We’ve already been having a very hot and dry summer, but the weatherman was predicting sweltering heat and possible thunderstorms for our Block Party so we were a little concerned. Sunny skies kept the thunderstorms away, but we got the heat – up to the mid-90s! Click here to see a full size slide show So many marvelous people were involved in making our day a...
read moreRoberts Honors Judge King
HBI President Honored The President of our Board of Directors, Judge Roy Wheatley King, and his wife Lucille were recently honored in the Summer 2012 issue of Roberts Today, the alumni magazine of Roberts Wesleyan College where Roy serves on the Board of Trustees. As the article notes, “Giving is an ethic that was instilled in Judge King during his time as an attorney, as he was encouraged to take on pro-bono cases and to use his skills as an attorney to give back to his community. Today, the structure of non-profit organizations...
read moreChief on the Street
Last night RPD Chief Sheppard and several of his officers met at His Branches with concerned citizens in the Arnett Boulevard neighborhood and listened carefully to their concerns. Afterwards the group walked the boulevard visiting stores and neighbors and finding out more about how they can help us keep our neighborhood strong. This month’s “Chief on the Street” program was sponsored by the Rochester Police Department in collaboration with the Arnett Block Association and Rochester Youth Outreach....
read moreBishop dedicates ultrasound
Knight Dean Hamingson speaking with Jann Armantrout and Bishop in background The Knights of Columbus and the Diocese of Rochester recently purchased a portable ultrasound machine that will be housed at Embracing Options, a local pregnancy care center that is part of faith-based care provider His Branches, Inc. The machine was dedicated and blessed by Bishop Matthew H. Clark during a June 20 ceremony attended by diocesan life-issues coordinator Jann Armantrout, Knights Supreme Council member Arthur J. Harris, His Branches CEO Dr. William...
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