By Thank you to all who participated in the community forum last week! It was a great opportunity to hear stories of a wide variety of those who live, work, worship, spend money, and raise children in Norwood. We heard from community leaders planned the event and have been working hard organizing citizens, praying, naming the challenges, and planning next steps. Attendees had the opportunity to break into small groups for sharing their own experiences and visions for the future of the city. We also shared food and conversation after the event, and many participants decided to commit to further action
Volunteer Spotlight: Juli Thompson
Juli Thompson, a professional photographer, has been a friend of our ministry since our earliest days. As we were getting started she shot the first photo shoot of “before” pictures from our house before the renovation, she’s photographed events for us, the final photo shoot of 2024 Mills, and once we opened she told us “I’d love to take pictures of your guests.” Of course, we’ve taken her up on the offer. Juli’s contribution to our work is a great example of a volunteer using her specific gifts to make life at Lydia’s House richer and more joyful. Each time
March e-Newsletter
March e-Newsletter 2015
Mardi Gras Party!
On Mardi Gras, Lydia’s House celebrated the best way we know how: by throwing an 80’s Prom party! Complete with photo booth… awesome 80’s attire… dancing.. and Prom court… It was certainly a Mardi Gras to remember!
Volunteers Worth Appreciating
On Sunday February 8th we hosted a volunteer appreciation brunch at board member Rick Boydston’s home to enjoy a spread of delicious food and honor the 30+ guests who have volunteered with Lydia’s House in 2014. Over the past year and beyond, we have been blown away by the disposition of compassion of our volunteers and therefore made our theme for this year’s volunteer appreciation gathering “Compassionate Hands and Hearts”. We acknowledged Henri Nouwen’s statement, “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish…Compassion means full immersion in