now youngstown | Outreach programs

NOW Youngstown, in cooperation with C.I.R.V. (Community Initiative to Reduce Violence) Project, will conduct 13 community-based outreach programs. The events will feature music, testimonies, drama and mime, dance, carnival games, food and displays by various service providers. Though the events have a light-hearted approach through activities, the serious mission is to “Increase the Peace.” Crime and violence will be reduced when people in neighborhoods build relationships.

Orientation and training: Orientation, registration and training for volunteers will be at 6 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Fellowship Church, 4749 South Ave., Youngstown. Training for prayer and altar workers will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Metro Assembly of God, 2530 South Ave., Youngstown.

Prayer meeting: A citywide prayer meeting is planned for 6:30 p.m. June 16 at Metro Assembly.

Unity service and picnic: Planned at 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at Arlington Heights Community Center.

Increase the Peace rallies, most scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays in Youngstown unless otherwise noted, are:

June 17: Victory Estates, 690 Magnolia Ave., on the East Side.

June 24: Heart Reach Ministries, 211 Rodondo Road, on the North Side.

June 28, Saturday: Salvation Army, 1501 Glenwood Ave., on the South Side.

July 1: Hillman and Warren streets on the South Side.

July 8: Taft Elementary School, 730 E. Avondale Ave., on the South Side, with Holy Ground walk at 5:15 p.m. Other walks will be scheduled.

July 15: Kirwan Homes, 101 Jackson St., Campbell.

July 22: Borts Field, South Belle Vista Ave., on the West Side.

July 29: Arlington Heights, Wirt Street, on the North Side.

Aug. 5: ESA Park Apartments, 1110 Kendis Circle, on the East Side.

Aug. 12: Rockford Village, 1402 Dogwood Drive, on the East Side.

Aug. 23, Saturday: Book bag giveaway from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. downtown.

Aug. 26: Metro Assembly on the South Side.

Sept. 6, Saturday: Beulah Baptist Church, 570 Sherwood St., on the South Side.

Service providers: Teen Challenge, Pregnancy Help Center, Heart Reach Ministries, Salvation Army and TRIO of Eastern Gateway Community College, which provides programs to increase access to higher education for economically disadvantaged students.

Contact information: Metro Assembly at 330-782-2070 or Spanish Evangelical Church at 330-743-2836.

Donations: Make checks to Jericho Project (a street ministry) and send to Metro Assembly, 2530 South Ave., Youngstown.