40 Years of Shepherd: Full Bellies and Full Hearts
There’s a reason Shepherd Community started with a meal. Food builds...
How It All Started… A Simple Thanksgiving Meal
Shepherd Community started, as most things do, with an idea. It all...
40 Years of Shepherd: Full Bellies and Full Hearts
There’s a reason Shepherd Community started with a meal. Food builds connection. Food is an equalizer. Memories are often made around a table over a shared meal. Food is a basic need for everyone. But our Shepherd neighbors live in a food desert, where access to affordable and healthy food is limited. Since the beginning of Shepherd, food has...
Podcasts
Gaps in SNAP benefits contribute to hunger crisis in Indianapolis
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses why gaps in SNAP...
Shepherd partners with IPS high school to promote students’ mental health
Shepherd Community Center Chief Engagement Office Phil Edwards and Arsenal Technical...
It’s the season for volunteers. Here’s how you can serve at Shepherd.
Shepherd Community Center Director of Volunteer Engagement Donna Alexander explains how...
Columns by Jay
As food stamps run out, our neighbors are at risk of going hungry. Please help.
Many of my neighbors will begin to run out of food in a few days. Unless. Unless we work together as a community. Unless we step up with determination and compassion to meet an emerging urgent crisis. As the federal government shutdown continues, SNAP benefits (food stamps) will end Nov. 1 in Indiana. The pain will start to hit the first of our neighbors on Nov. 5, when their monthly benefits normally would be replenished. How many neighbors? About 600,000 Hoosiers – roughly one in 12 – rely...
Shepherd Community Center marks 40 years of community collaboration to break the cycle of poverty
After 40 years of committed service on Indianapolis’ near Eastside, Shepherd Community Center is breaking ground on its most ambitious project yet. The Ruby Project will bring new housing, a wellness center and expanded education to one of the city’s most underserved neighborhoods. What started in 1985 as a shared Thanksgiving meal has grown into an organization reaching more than 10,000 individuals each year. With the Ruby Project, Shepherd Community Center is looking not just to grow, but to...
How you can have an encounter this year with your neighbors – and with Jesus
By Jay Height and Jeremy Height In Luke 8, we find Jesus where we often find Him in the Gospels -- on the move. And while He is on the move, Jesus has a life-changing encounter with an unnamed woman, whose issue with blood gives us a glimpse, not only of radical faith, but also of the intersection of blessing our community and bringing people to Jesus. This woman was desperate because of her illness. It would have caused her not only physical pain, but also would have made her to be considered...
40 Years of Shepherd: Full Bellies and Full Hearts
There’s a reason Shepherd Community started with a meal. Food builds connection. Food is an equalizer. Memories are often made around a table over a shared meal. Food is a basic need for everyone. But our Shepherd neighbors live in a food...
40 Years of Shepherd: Full Bellies and Full Hearts
There’s a reason Shepherd Community started with a meal. Food builds...
How It All Started… A Simple Thanksgiving Meal
Shepherd Community started, as most things do, with an idea. It all...
Podcasts
Gaps in SNAP benefits contribute to hunger crisis in Indianapolis
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses why gaps in SNAP...
Shepherd partners with IPS high school to promote students’ mental health
Shepherd Community Center Chief Engagement Office Phil Edwards and Arsenal Technical...
It’s the season for volunteers. Here’s how you can serve at Shepherd.
Shepherd Community Center Director of Volunteer Engagement Donna Alexander explains how...
Columns by Jay
As food stamps run out, our neighbors are at risk of going hungry. Please help.
Many of my neighbors will begin to run out of food in a few days. Unless. Unless we work together as a community. Unless we step up with determination and compassion to meet an emerging urgent crisis. As the federal government shutdown continues, SNAP benefits (food stamps) will end Nov. 1 in Indiana. The pain will start to hit the first of our neighbors on Nov. 5, when their monthly benefits normally would be replenished. How many neighbors? About 600,000 Hoosiers – roughly one in 12 – rely...
Shepherd Community Center marks 40 years of community collaboration to break the cycle of poverty
After 40 years of committed service on Indianapolis’ near Eastside, Shepherd Community Center is breaking ground on its most ambitious project yet. The Ruby Project will bring new housing, a wellness center and expanded education to one of the city’s most underserved neighborhoods. What started in 1985 as a shared Thanksgiving meal has grown into an organization reaching more than 10,000 individuals each year. With the Ruby Project, Shepherd Community Center is looking not just to grow, but to...
How you can have an encounter this year with your neighbors – and with Jesus
By Jay Height and Jeremy Height In Luke 8, we find Jesus where we often find Him in the Gospels -- on the move. And while He is on the move, Jesus has a life-changing encounter with an unnamed woman, whose issue with blood gives us a glimpse, not only of radical faith, but also of the intersection of blessing our community and bringing people to Jesus. This woman was desperate because of her illness. It would have caused her not only physical pain, but also would have made her to be considered...