Happy New Year! Traditionally as I say goodbye to one year and welcome in the next, I search for a new verse to guide me and encourage me in that new year. But it seems every year, I land on the same verse. It’s Jeremiah 29:11. For I know the plans I have for you,” […]

The Manger is a wonderful example of the GraceWorks’ mission statement of Neighbor serving Neighbor, in action. At this special time of the year, you, our GraceWorks’ partners pour out your generosity to us, and we in turn pour it out on our Neighbors on your behalf and on God’s behalf. It is an event

Christmas was not looking very merry for 10-year-old Mary* this year. Her mother is hospitalized with COVID-19, and providing toys and Christmas festivity is beyond the financial capability of her older sister, Lucy*, who moved back home to take care of the house and her younger sibling. Lucy, 22, wanted to make this Christmas, of

GraceWorks Ministries needs a new home by June of 2023.  In early 2021, the building GraceWorks Ministries occupies at 104 Southeast Parkway as a tenant for nearly 20 years sold to FlexMet, a company that moved from California. FlexMet’s purpose is “to make great products for out customers that create value and improve people’s lives.”

I recently read a quote that said, “If my heart is right with God, every human being is my neighbor” (Oswald Chambers). Well, that is the posture of GraceWorks Ministries’ Food Pantry. I love that more and more we are being given the opportunity to demonstrate the heart of God in our services. On average

Thousands of runners and walkers line up Thanksgiving mornings for the Turkey Trot benefiting GraceWorks. Costumes befitting the season, or not, abound – with plenty of turkey hats, pilgrim outfits, tutus, even a Spiderman once. But in the 21 years since the first Trot, one person stands out. Betty Brownlee celebrated her 90th birthday by

If you can, imagine my picture in that iconic Uncle Sam poster, (yeah, you have my permission to keep me in the hat!) where it is my pointed finger and my (smiling) face, declaring I want you. And I do! This letter is my call out to our community to come and volunteer with GraceWorks

Sometimes a disappointment turns into a Godsend. Jan’s* husband needed a lift chair when he could no longer stand unassisted. After her husband’s death, Jan loaned the chair to her friend Margaret* who needed a chair that would allow her to sleep upright after eye surgery. When Margaret no longer needed the chair, she thought