The December 26, 2019 update to the community resource document is now live! Ever wonder how you can help someone in the community with food or shelter or recovery who needs a hand up or even a hand out? Share this document. Download it. Print it. Keep it in your car. Give it away to people. If you want the original .Docx file so you can change the cover page and make it your own – just message me with an email address and I will happily send it to you. Please......
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I am happy to announce that this support group will meet via Zoom bi-weekly on Thursday nights from 6:30-8:00 pm. Our very first official meeting will be on Thursday, February 25th from 6:30-8:30 pm and the meeting information is included below. Meeting ID – 851 5710 3269 P/W – 430670 Link – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85157103269?pwd=U0pBYUEvZ2dhM3FmVVFHNmlKUXVydz09 Our tentative plan is to meet on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. In light of COVID-19, Families on the Road to Recovery will meet via Zoom until we are able to gather together in groups of more than ten (10). Each week we will......
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Please send an email to gdow@mygracedowntown.com if you need one. Each box contains a lot of the essentials like PB&J, Breakfast Cereal, Juice, etc. Also, if you would like to donate the funds to make a box, it is $25 and just make a note somewhere so we know what its for!...
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Hello GDoW! WE NEED YOUR HELP! Can you help us build a few boxes? They cost about $25 each and in the last three months we have delivered close to 20 boxes of food. We are looking for donations of individual items, but if you want to build a box – Here is a list of what we purchased and the prices, Box items can change if children are involved. Spaghetti 2 boxes .69 EACH = 1.38 Spaghetti sauce .99 = .99 Mac and Cheese 3 boxes .79 each = 2.37 Chicken......
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Creative2, a digital agency owned by a member of Grace Downtown, is hiring for four positions and asked us to invite qualified individuals from the Grace Downtown congregation to apply. Available positions include: Developer Senior Developer Senior Designer Marketing Manager To apply or for more info visit Creative2’s Careers Page. Please mention you came from Grace Downtown as Creative2 will make a donation to the church equal to 10% of the successful candidate’s first year salary if they are referred by one of our members. Please send your friends!...
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Area fatal overdose victims were honored with a Walk of Hope and prayer at the end of the fourth annual Addicted to Hope Rally outside Handley High School on Saturday. EVAN GOODENOW/The Winchester Star Facebook Twitter Email Print Save WINCHESTER — As blues guitarist David Roy played Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” in memory of fatal overdose victims at the fourth annual Addicted to Hope Rally on Saturday at Handley High School, Caleb Comer was wearing a memorial T-shirt honoring his first cousin Desirae Lynn-Miller. Lynn-Miller, a 34-year-old mother of five from......
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WINCHESTER — Zack Taylor has spent nearly a fourth of his life serving meals to the less fortunate. The Evendale Elementary School student, who is just a few weeks shy of turning 10, has been volunteering with his church, Grace Downtown of Winchester, since he was 7. “If people can’t help themselves, we should help them,” Zack said. Grace Downtown started serving monthly community meals shortly after it was founded in August 2015. On Friday, the church’s monthly meal was provided to residents and guests of Winchester Rescue Mission‘s homeless shelter at 435 N. Cameron......
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Ever wonder what the local drug crisis looks like to an outsider? Someone who has never been to Winchester before? Check out this video made by Mic Dispatch on the hope we have here in Winchester VA....
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Sidewalk prayers near shoot-up spots. Sunday sermons in the back of a bar. Pleas to struggling souls to surrender to God. Funerals for members of their flock who didn’t make it. Clergy members have become spiritual first responders in the opioid crisis, often leaving the pulpit to minister on the streets. They can be reverends, rabbis, priests or pastors. Though their faiths differ, they invariably approach people with addiction as equals. No Bible-thumping, no blaming. Quite a few are in recovery themselves. Despite some signs of a slowdown, the nation’s all-time deadliest......
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WINCHESTER — When Pastor Brad Hill came to Winchester six-and-a-half years ago, he never dreamed he’d see a day where the community’s attitude toward addiction turned from scorn to compassion. Hill started his own recovery from addiction when he came to Winchester, but he said there weren’t many places to go for help back then due to the negative perception people had of addicts and alcoholics. “Since then, I’ve noticed the community opening up so many different things,” he said. “We’ve got a ton of recovery centers now, we’ve got a lot of......
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