Year: 2014

  Want to support Lydia’s House while you complete your weekly grocery shopping?  You can contribute your Kroger Rewards from your Kroger Plus Card by signing up in your profile. Hilary the intern just signed herself up, so she will give you the step-by-step process! 1. Go to www.krogercommunityrewards.com 2. Sign in to your account. 3. Click “Enroll Now” on the community rewards screen (which you should be taken to once you sign in). 4. Enter the Lydia’s House organization number, 83657 5. Choose Lydia’s House, Inc at 9756 Courtland Ave in Cincinnati, click “Enroll.” You’re all set! Once you enroll,

March e-Newsletter 2014

Now that Meridith has moved in and we’ve started decorating and bringing in furniture, Lydia’s House is turning more and more into a home.  We all have been working upstairs, enjoying the dining room table which soon will provide for a community of women and children.  Due to a broken heater and water system, Hilary even stayed the night last night, having the honor of being the first of many women to sleep in one of our rooms.   Aside from a microwave which mysteriously will turn on out of its own accord, microwave for 30 seconds, and then turn

Although it has been two weeks since our Feast of St. Lydia event, we are still buzzing in the glow of the support and generosity displayed that night. We can now say that we have raised approximately $14,000 from that night alone! We could spend a hundred years trying to express our gratitude for such a wonderful community who endlessly demonstrates compassion and belief in our mission, but we doubt we’d ever get close to fully being able to explain what you all mean to us. Thank you again, from the bottom of our hearts.  There are no other people

By Hilary, the Intern   Those of us living in Cincinnati, or honestly most of the nation right now, will know how incredibly cold it has been this winter.  Admittedly, I have become less tolerant of intense winters since I moved away from Michigan and Boston–it seems the milder climate of England, where I spent the last year and three months of my life, has spoiled me.  Needless to say, I’ve been rather grumpy the past few months, and Mary Ellen and Meridith can attest to the number of hours I spend bundled up in front of our office radiator