40 Years of Shepherd: Caring for our Community
For the past 40 years, Shepherd has prioritized building relationships...
40 Years of Shepherd: Holistic After-School Care
Over the past 40 years, Shepherd has been a beacon of hope for our...
Summer is coming. And Shepherd is helping families in IPS get ready.
Sometimes, loving a neighbor means opening your home to them to help meet a need. That recently was the case at Shepherd Community Center, which welcomed more than 30 community organizations that set up booths at the Indianapolis Public Schools Family Academy Summer Resource and Wellness Fair. The fair helps IPS students and their families...
Podcasts
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...
How Shepherd is helping to meet neighbors’ health-care needs
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses meeting neighbors’...
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...
Summer is coming. And Shepherd is helping families in IPS get ready.
Sometimes, loving a neighbor means opening your home to them to help meet a need. That recently was the case at Shepherd Community Center, which welcomed more than 30 community organizations that set up booths at the Indianapolis Public...
40 Years of Shepherd: Caring for our Community
For the past 40 years, Shepherd has prioritized building relationships...
40 Years of Shepherd: Holistic After-School Care
Over the past 40 years, Shepherd has been a beacon of hope for our...
Podcasts
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...
How Shepherd is helping to meet neighbors’ health-care needs
Shepherd Community Center Executive Director Jay Height discusses meeting neighbors’...
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...