News and Updates

October 28, 2022

Memorial Service Wednesday, November 2nd

This Wednesday, November 2nd, at 12:30 in the sanctuary, we will be holding a special memorial service for the friends our community has lost this year. We invite you to come and celebrate their lives as we remember into whose arms they have been brought into.

Employment Opportunity!

We're hiring a Campus Caretaker to fill a part-time (30 hr/week), hourly position. Click HERE to see the full job description.

I AM Home Art Show

SAVE THE DATE!

I AM Home is having their fall Art Show November 12, 4-7 at Ginger’s Revenge.

Host a Dinner for At Home with Miss Mary's Meatloaf

Registration closes November 6th!

This special event supports the Downtown Welcome Table. We hope you will host a gathering of your friends to share stories around the table while enjoying the very special Miss Mary’s Meatloaf meal.

If hosting isn't for you, then sign up to receive a meal. 100% of the proceeds go to the DWT, thanks to our incredible sponsors!

Garden Workdays

For the next several weeks, on Sundays 10:00am-12:00pm and Wednesdays 1:00pm-3:00pm, our new Garden Intern, Hannah, will be working out in the garden weather permitting. She is working on weeding and preparing the garden for winter. If you'd like to join her, head out to the garden during these hours!

Companion Corner

COMING UP:

• Welcome Table Sustainability- Help Needed! We are continually working on ways to make the Welcome Table more sustainable. One of the most recent efforts that we have implemented is composting. We are currently seeking help with this effort from someone willing to transport the compost to a local facility twice a week after the meals. If you are interested in serving the Welcome Table in this way please reach out for more details!



• Resources for Resilience Training- An in depth training on how to care for yourself with tools designed to reset the nervous system in the face of stressors and trauma. This is such an invaluable training that you will gain practical tools to use for yourself and others in your life! We have 40 spots free of charge! The training will be November 17 & 18. Read more in the attached document!

• Companion Orientation November 7th. We will meet in the sanctuary at 5:00pm. Invite your friends or family to attend!

• Companion Care Crew- The Companion Care Crew is made up of Companions at Haywood Street Congregation who have the time, energy, and a sense of call to support Haywood Street’s ministries and Companions. Our next meeting is Tuesday November 1st at 5:00pm in the main dining room. We will discuss ways to care for companions and improve our ministries for all involved! If you haven't been to a meeting yet or just want to check it out, feel free to join! 

SIGN UP:

• Please make sure to check the sign up sheet each week and update it based on your availability or let Katlyn know if you will not be here. This lets us know if we will have the coverage we need each week.

Haywood Street in Photos

Special music in Wednesday service by Jonathan

Wednesday circle up before the start of the Downtown Welcome Table

Weekly Ministry Opportunities:

Worship:

Sundays at 11:00 and Wednesdays at 12:30 in the sanctuary

Tuesday Prayer Group:12:00 in the sanctuary. Gather for a time of communal prayer 

Thursday Card Making: Group - 10:00am in Room 1 (off the main lobby) - Gather together to make cards for our community and friends in prison or in the hospital. 

Clothing Resources

Click below to see the list the places in the community to donate clothes and to find free clothes.

Fresco Viewing Hours:

Sundays 9-12 

Monday-Thursday 10-2

By appointment, contact April at april@haywoodstreet.org

Ways to Give

Your gift ensures that there is always enough, and room for everyone, at the many welcoming tables of Haywood Street. 

the carpenter from Nazareth was coming through town. Zac hung up the phone on his stockbroker and shamelessly sprinted to the crowds already lined up seven rows deep. Jockeying for a front-row seat, he scampered up a Sycamore tree to perch above the parade route.  

When Jesus arrived, he called Zac back down to earth, shocking the spectators, and invited himself over for dinner with the most despised man of all. At table, surrendering to a force far greater than greed, Zacchaeus vowed to share half his possessions and spend the rest of his life making amends. 

With such an irresistible story and an even more dramatic conversion, the focus is understandably on the "sawed-off social disaster" 1 of a man rather than the Messiah he decided to follow. But turning our attention back to Jesus, what's surprisingly revealed about him?

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A witness to include the most excluded, Haywood Street not only welcomes every child of God–especially sisters and brothers of every mental illness and physical disability, addiction and diagnosis, living condition and employment status, gender identity and sexual orientation, class, color, and creed–but we celebrate your presence, certain that the kingdom of God is coming closer because you are here.