Tag: mercy
What Does Lent Have to Do With Helping People in Need?
Whatever you may [or may not] abstain from during this Lenten Season, I encourage you to walk toward Resurrection Sunday with expectation.
9 Drop-the-Mic Quotes from Our Church Partner Leaders
Three of our church partner leaders joined our Young Supporters Community for a special panel last month.
Prayers of the People: ‘Remind Us What It Means to Be a True Neighbor’
At a recent Redeemer Downtown service, Tony Wong shared a Prayers of the People. Tony is a Downtown church member and also Director of Program Partnerships at Hope for New York.
Prayers of the People: ‘Pour Out Your Mercy; Bring Perfect Justice’
Father God, thank you for your presence here with us this morning. Thank you for giving us the chance to worship you together in person and be reminded of your faithfulness towards us.
How Are Mercy, Justice, Generosity, Poverty, and Brokenness Connected?
HFNY focuses on mercy, justice, generosity, poverty and brokenness. I find those five words challenging. In the context of each of our lives they mean so many different things, but one thing does connect them all—and it’s that they impact each of us every day.
How Restore NYC Helps Sex Trafficking Survivors Find Safety and Stability
My name is Beisi and I work as a Counselor Advocate at Restore NYC, an organization that exists to end sex trafficking in New York and restore the well-being and independence of foreign-national survivors.
Seeing Blindspots (and Shalom) at Christmas
It was Christmas time, and my classmates and I sat in a circle on the carpet of our kindergarten classroom. That day, we had been asked to bring in a Christmas treat for everyone. We took turns distributing our gifts to each other, dutifully dropping our offering into the personalized bags that sat before each […]
What Hebrews 13 Teaches Us About Being Outsiders
The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace […]
Announcing Our New Church Partner: Exilic Church
We love partnering with churches because we help with the spiritual formation of Christians across our city—connecting them with our affiliate opportunities and mobilizing them to serve those in need through volunteer programs. With every church partnership, we renew our vision of helping “all people experience spiritual, social, and economic flourishing through the demonstration of Christ’s […]
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