I first met Forrest White in Hillside Court.  His church, Trinity United Methodist Church, has been actively engaging the Oak Grove community for several years through the Oak Grove Micah Initiative.  As the Youth and Missions Director, Forrest wanted to learn more about what was going on in the south side and has joined our [...]

Bob Lupton has invested almost 40 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta. In response to a call that he first felt while serving in Vietnam, he left a budding business career to work with delinquent urban youth. Bob and his family sold their suburban home and moved into the inner-city where they have lived [...]

Introducing the Embrace Richmond Summer Internship Program This summer Embrace Richmond will be using our final AmeriCorps slots to empower young adults to be a blessing to the Brookland Park Boulevard corridor and the surrounding neighborhoods of Ginter Park Terrace, North Central, Battery Park and Barton Heights. We have 7 positions available for summer interns [...]

The Thrifty Quaker has selected Embrace Richmond as their charity of the month for April. For a number of years Midlothian Friends Meeting, a quaker meeting located along the county line between Powhatan and Midlothian, Virginia, had a desire to do major social outreach. In August of 1996 the meeting established a thrift store from [...]

When Ryan Greene, Youth and Young Adult Minister from Shalom Baptist Church, first contacted me, his goal was to “plug” his young adult group called Agape into some kind of Christmas season service opportunity.  Ryan got way more than he bargained for. I shared with Ryan that Embrace Richmond strives to build community and that [...]