Pandemic response: When the world stepped off a cliff, Shepherd Community and its partners stretched to help In early March, before the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, Shepherd Community staff had begun to prepare for what seemed would be significant -- but not overwhelming -- changes...
The requests for help pouring into Shepherd Community Center provide a snapshot of the already devastating economic consequences of a fast-moving global pandemic. Parents say they need food to feed their families as businesses shut down and work hours are cut, or eliminated altogether. Others need...
Sometimes someone says something that suddenly shifts your way of thinking. And changes how you view the people around you. Take, for example, a recent conversation with Donna Alexander, Shepherd Community Center’s director of volunteers. As we talked about a range of volunteer opportunities, Alexander repeatedly...
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...
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...
Meet Tim Swarens! Tim will be giving us the "inside scoop" of some events and happenings here at Shepherd. If you want to better understand Shepherd and our neighborhood, you won't want to miss Tim's articles. Tim Swarens is a former opinion editor and columnist with...
from indystar.com, July 18th 2014 Jay Height was still reeling from one of the latest acts of gruesome violence inflicted on Indianapolis this summer when I caught up with him this past week. Days earlier, police called to a Northwestside apartment complex found a woman beaten to...
