News & Updates

WELCOME TO HAYWOOD STREET: UPDATES: Please feel invited to join in celebration with us this Easter Sunday! – Easter meal served between 8:30-10:00 – Easter egg hunt at 10:45 – Outdoor worship at 11:00 (While many in our community are now vaccinated, we will continue to require masks and social distancing) We thank everyone who...

WELCOME FROM HAYWOOD STREET: UPDATES: Corporate sponsors help make our events successful and support Haywood St. programs all year long. Please join us in thanking sponsors who are supporting this year’s planned events, including the first annual “Miss Mary’s Meatloaf Dinner”. Click here to learn more and identify sponsors that have signed on to-date. ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1. Recovery meetings...

I often see Michael from my office window; sitting, smoking, waiting patiently until it is time to pick his two-year-old daughter up from daycare. For our staff, who care tremendously for Michael and his family, it has become painful to ask if they’ve been placed in housing yet. We’ve been asking for four years. The...

Dear Haywood Street Community, Before the oil paint dried, Janet McKenzie’s icon, “Jesus of the People,” was immediately controversial.  The artist chose an African American woman as her model- thick eyebrows, generous lips, locked hair- to portray a non-binary Savior.  One covered in the unadorned robes of a peasant, a tangle of barbs encircling her...