Despite unseasonably chilly weather, over 30 A Time to Help volunteers gathered on Saturday, September 13 to help with yard rehab with LifeBUILDERS.
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Working Mom Gets Help Sprucing Up New Home
June 21 – Highland Park, MI – Nearly 40 volunteers worked alongside members of Highland Park’s Revival Tabernacle Church to clean up a house that will soon become home to a working mom and her two kids.
Making a House a Home
May 31 – Southfield – More than two dozen A Time To Help volunteers spent their Saturday morning sprucing up a house that is home to several special needs adults.
Community Center Clean Up
Ravendale – April 26 – Fifty volunteers from A Time to Help worked to haul debris and rearrange desks, tables, and cabinets at the future site of the new Ravendale Community Center located on Outer Drive in Detroit.
Time To Help Renovate A Community Center
A Time To Help is teaming up with Ravendale Community, Inc. on Saturday, April 26 to clean up an old, abandoned building that will soon become the new home of the Ravendale Community Center.
Detroit Charities Rewarded
DETROIT, March 26 – More than a dozen Detroit charities were grateful recipients of more than $400,000 in donations distributed from Mitch Albom’s “S.A.Y. (Super All Year) Detroit Radiothon.” The monies were collected in a single 15-hour broadcast last December at the Somerset Collection in Troy.
Albom handed out 14 oversized checks at a ceremony held at WJR Radio in Detroit’s FisherBuilding Wednesday morning. With him was Dr. Chad Audi of the Detroit Rescue Mission, which facilitates the “S.A.Y. Detroit” charity founded by Albom in 2006.
Food Bank Restocked
This past Saturday, March 22, Time To Help monthly volunteers came out in record numbers to help sort more than 20,000 pounds of food to be distributed to Detroit’s needy by Gleaners Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan.
Christmas at the Denby Center
Adopting homeless children and their parents living in shelters for one day is one of Time to Help’s most cherished activities. The residents of Denby Center are enormously touched by the generosity of volunteers and sponsors. Having a special party in their honor with tons of needed gifts, food, arts and crafts, games, Santa, and more is heart-warming for both residents and volunteers. This year’s party was held on Saturday, December 9.
Fall Cleaning at Mercy Center
The Divine Mercy Center is a place of prayer. It is a refuge from the distress, difficulties, and hardships in life. The Divine Mercy Center is a lay ministry of the Catholic Church founded by Catherine M. Lanni and established by Cardinal Adam Maida on Easter Sunday, 2003. The Divine Mercy Center came into existence March, 2006.
Detroit Goes Green
A Time to Help Volunteers partnered with The Greening of Detroit and the Detroit Water and Sewage Department to bring together over 160 volunteers on Saturday, October 19, 2013. Volunteers planted more than 120 trees along Pierson and Braile from 7 Mile Road to Pembroke Avenue.