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Hello my name is Azul and welcome to Shepherd Jr. News. We're a team of eight journalists that want to share with you, our audience, some of the behind the scenes and people at Shepherd Community Center. The past month, we had an incident where...
In my last post I mentioned that there were two things I want everyone to remember from Poverty 101. The first is that “It’s all about relationships.” The second is that “Poverty is Complex.” Everyone who has lived in poverty, everyone who studies poverty, everyone who...
We just really want to say thank you. This kind of effort doesn't happen with just Gleaners or just Shepherd. It's a partnership between tons of different groups, all the volunteers that come in. This is a true community effort, and we really...
For amount of kids that we have shopped for, they're 737 and we have approximately 371 volunteers coming in to help those families shop.David Hermann:This partnership just began earlier in the year. It is giving people the opportunity to sign up for volunteer...
As a long-term missionary, serving with her husband and children in Zambia and the Ukraine, Donna Alexander witnessed the complexities and consequences of deep poverty in her day-to-day ministry. Yet, when she arrived at Shepherd Community Center in 2018 to serve as director of volunteers, Alexander...
Hello, my name is Jose and welcome to Shepherd Junior News. We are a team of eight journalists that want to share with you, our audience, some of the behind the scenes activities and people at Shepherd community. Today, we're going to visit the Cooking...
Diana Reed had a decision to make. She was serving as a volunteer in a kindergarten class at Shepherd Academy when the organization’s executive director, Jay Height, approached her with a question. Would she take a job as a preschool teacher? I can’t be a teacher, Reed...
If he were to walk its streets today, Charles Dickens would surely recognize Indianapolis, even 160 years after “A Tale of Two Cities” was published. It truly is the best of times in Indy. The tech sector is booming. Life sciences, logistics, and advanced manufacturing continue...
In the day and age we live in, everyone wants to get their information in small chunks that don’t take much time to digest. This is a particular challenge for me as someone whose job it is to teach about complex subjects like poverty. I...
If you've been around Shepherd, you have probably heard about our Poverty 101 training. This unique training helps challenge stereotypes about poverty and ultimately gives you a better understanding of the poverty mindset. If we are going to break the cycle of poverty in the...
