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WELCOME FROM HAYWOOD STREET: UPDATES: Haywood Street remains committed to the health of the community. Masks are always available, hand washing and sanitizing stations are still in place, and multiple wellness checkpoints are setup around campus to ensure the safety of our devoted companions. A big “Thank you” to everyone who has continued to care...

WELCOME FROM HAYWOOD STREET: UPDATES: This write-up does a great job at explaining the innovative partnership between Asheville Strong, Haywood Street and local restaurants. The relationships that have been formed between the Downtown Welcome Table and the Asheville, culinary community over the past eight years, have only been strengthened through the challenges of this exceptional...

Dear Haywood St., At our annual retreat six years ago, the board voted unanimously on two long-range priorities: the fresco and deeply affordable housing.  Now that principal artist Christopher Holt has completed his tear-invoking depiction of the Beatitudes, an unparalleled act of grace in pigment and plaster, our focus, in addition to existing Spirit-led ministries,...

We do a disservice to the dead when we hallow their memories in stained glass, pretending they were perfect.  Bruce Lee Abshire was anything but perfect, and wonderfully so.  Some of his most memorable imperfections included: doing laps around the sanctuary in a hotwired golf cart clutching a live chicken, bootlegging moonshine across the County line in...