40 Years of Shepherd: Breaking the Cycle of Unemployment
There’s a little shed on what looks like an abandoned lot across from the...
40 Years of Shepherd: Caring for our Community
For the past 40 years, Shepherd has prioritized building relationships...
‘Your belief changes trajectories’: Work Life graduates share how Shepherd program helped them find new hope
Lasheea Andrews makes and sells skin care products. Magda Joseph runs a manicure and nail art business. Rhonda Perry operates a catering business. Terrell Scott is launching a mobile auto mechanic business. Each of these new entrepreneurs recently earned a Work Life diploma from Shepherd Community Center after completing 11 weeks of training. The...
Podcasts
New book by Shepherd leader explores how to break out of poverty
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Author Tim Streett...
Sen. Todd Young discusses how proposed increase in tax credit can help working families
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Shepherd Community Center...
Hope at Easter: How Shepherd shares the love of Jesus with neighbors in Indy
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Shepherd Community Center...
Columns by Jay
Labeled vs Loved
Labeled vs Loved – it’s the story of so many people in the world around us. They accept the label the world has assigned them; either they live to try to “fix” it or they accept it as their identity. Dig in with Executive Director Jay Height as he takes a familiar Bible story of a woman who trades her label of unclean, damaged, and unloved for a new way of living full of love, healing, and hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGxVmo33O8&feature=youtu.be May we be faithful as we meet the...
We were made to Connect
“Growing up, we lived life in community, but then things changed.” – Jay Height What is community, and why does it matter? Have we experienced the death of the community? Is there a way for us to transform the epidemic of loneliness plaguing our communities into one full of hope and connection? Join Executive Director as he looks back on his life, and the role community has played in his life personally and in the lives of those we serve at Shepherd Community Center....
How can YOU be the Salt?
“You are the salt of the earth.” – Jesus (Matthew 5:13a) In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses salt to teach his followers and the crowds about their role to play in the world around them. But why does Jesus use salt as the example? What does it mean to “Be the Salt”?Let’s take a deep dive with Executive Director and Pastor Jay Height into the origins of salt and how we can “Be the Salt.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_yXyLqOU-w&feature=youtu.be So, how can YOU be the Salt?Your time,...
‘Your belief changes trajectories’: Work Life graduates share how Shepherd program helped them find new hope
Lasheea Andrews makes and sells skin care products. Magda Joseph runs a manicure and nail art business. Rhonda Perry operates a catering business. Terrell Scott is launching a mobile auto mechanic business. Each of these new entrepreneurs...
40 Years of Shepherd: Breaking the Cycle of Unemployment
There’s a little shed on what looks like an abandoned lot across from the...
40 Years of Shepherd: Caring for our Community
For the past 40 years, Shepherd has prioritized building relationships...
Podcasts
New book by Shepherd leader explores how to break out of poverty
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Author Tim Streett...
Sen. Todd Young discusses how proposed increase in tax credit can help working families
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Shepherd Community Center...
Hope at Easter: How Shepherd shares the love of Jesus with neighbors in Indy
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Shepherd Community Center...
Columns by Jay
Labeled vs Loved
Labeled vs Loved – it’s the story of so many people in the world around us. They accept the label the world has assigned them; either they live to try to “fix” it or they accept it as their identity. Dig in with Executive Director Jay Height as he takes a familiar Bible story of a woman who trades her label of unclean, damaged, and unloved for a new way of living full of love, healing, and hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGxVmo33O8&feature=youtu.be May we be faithful as we meet the...
We were made to Connect
“Growing up, we lived life in community, but then things changed.” – Jay Height What is community, and why does it matter? Have we experienced the death of the community? Is there a way for us to transform the epidemic of loneliness plaguing our communities into one full of hope and connection? Join Executive Director as he looks back on his life, and the role community has played in his life personally and in the lives of those we serve at Shepherd Community Center....
How can YOU be the Salt?
“You are the salt of the earth.” – Jesus (Matthew 5:13a) In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses salt to teach his followers and the crowds about their role to play in the world around them. But why does Jesus use salt as the example? What does it mean to “Be the Salt”?Let’s take a deep dive with Executive Director and Pastor Jay Height into the origins of salt and how we can “Be the Salt.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_yXyLqOU-w&feature=youtu.be So, how can YOU be the Salt?Your time,...