Mission
Guiding Light Restarts Recovery Program Intake Process with Enhanced Safety Protocols
by (Guiding Light)
Submitted 07-08-2020 under NONPROFITS
While some organizations halted operations during the onset of COVID-19 in West Michigan, Guiding Light has adapted in order to continue its rescue, recovery and re-engagement programming in light of rising needs. The Grand Rapids-based nonprofit...
Guiding Light Welcomes Eric Williams to Board of Directors
by (Guiding Light)
Submitted 07-07-2020 under NONPROFITS
Eric Williams, chief executive officer of the United Methodist Community House, has joined Guiding Light’s board of directors. Williams brings more than 40 years of experience in entrepreneurship, higher education, nonprofit work and community...
A home in Heartside: Guiding Light Mission offers food, shelter, way forward
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 01-15-2015 under NONPROFITS
We met Napolean Frazier at Guiding Light Mission in Grand Rapids on January 13, the coldest on record. Frazier was one of the 135 men who had stayed at Guiding Light the night before. A 33-year-old unemployed computer systems engineer, he had moved...
Clothes Closet expands in ministry opportunities for neighborhood
by (magical)
Submitted 10-18-2013 under NEWS
Heritage Hill Outreach Ministry (HHOM) started out as a Sunday School and clothing ministry in the basement of a church by church member Mary Boluyt, who had a love for the people and wanted to help them. Today, the ministry is located at 935 East...
Public Invited to 14th Annual DIA Events
by (grdominicans)
Submitted 06-11-2010 under NONPROFITS
The Dominican Institute for the Arts (DIA) is sponsoring two inspiring and life-changing events that are part of the DIA's 14th Annual Gathering of Dominican Artists: 1) A retreat for artists and those who appreciate art;...
Beautiful People
by (grdominicans)
Submitted 03-17-2010 under NONPROFITS
In the fall of 2009, Sisters Maureen Geary and Mary Navarre of the Dominican Sisters ~ Grand Rapids, visited the Social Work Center--Centro de Obras Sociales—a maternity clinic that delivers about 300 babies each month. The Dominican Sisters have...