‘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...
40 Years of Shepherd: Breaking the Cycle of Unemployment
There’s a little shed on what looks like an abandoned lot across from the...
Welcome to The Porch: Shepherd’s new resource center helps neighbors solve problems
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Executive Director Jay Height discusses the vision and mission behind Shepherd’s new Launching Center.
Podcasts
Welcome to The Porch: Shepherd’s new resource center helps neighbors solve problems
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Executive Director Jay...
Summer is busy at Shepherd: It’s a great time to serve kids on Indy’s east side
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Executive Director Jay...
Good neighbors needed: How you can build a bridge with the people next door
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Shepherd Executive Director...
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...
Welcome to The Porch: Shepherd’s new resource center helps neighbors solve problems
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Executive Director Jay Height discusses the vision and mission behind Shepherd’s new Launching Center.
‘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...
40 Years of Shepherd: Breaking the Cycle of Unemployment
There’s a little shed on what looks like an abandoned lot across from the...
Podcasts
Welcome to The Porch: Shepherd’s new resource center helps neighbors solve problems
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Executive Director Jay...
Summer is busy at Shepherd: It’s a great time to serve kids on Indy’s east side
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Executive Director Jay...
Good neighbors needed: How you can build a bridge with the people next door
In the latest Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Podcast episode, Shepherd Executive Director...
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...