Reverberate 2021 – Neighborly Love
There’s so much to celebrate! Visit Reverberatelancaster.com It’s been 17 months since the world turned upside down and uncertainty painted our lives. Seventeen months of changing guidelines, virtual events, and the complete restructuring of life as we knew it. Seventeen months of missing family and friends, settling for virtual meetups, and canceling plans. And yet, […]
Restored to Be Restorers: Food Bank Recipients Giving Back
Our community food bank, also known as the Outreach Center, has been hard at work, sorting, boxing up and giving out food goods to our community. And while so many are in need of help with groceries each week, the heart of the Outreach Center is about much more. To Bola, one of our most […]
Lancaster Responds to the Need for Food
…we received 80,355 lbs. of food! That weighs more than 26 cars combined! Just last year, we put out a call throughout the county for our Rescue Mission Food Drive. And over the next few weeks and months, what we saw was incredible. Individuals, families, businesses, and churches showed up, delivering mountains of food to […]
Reverberate 2020
“The harder it seems like the enemy hits, the greater the church becomes.” Rev. John A. Knight | Brightside Baptist Church God showed up Tuesday night across Lancaster county! With close to 1000 people in about 30 locations, the pandemic didn’t stop our community from coming together as one church body, united in praising God. […]
Stuff-A-Buggy
Driving up in electric wheelchair full of groceries, a man wounded during the attacks on 911 knows how important it is to give back, saying “I’ve been blessed by others, now I want share what I have.” A young girl picked out food for our guests after learning for the first time how so many […]
Grand Opening of Providence Shelter: Water Street Mission’s New Emergency Shelter
Today Water Street Mission was excited to celebrate the Grand Opening of Providence Shelter. Before we cut the Ribbon, opening a new chapter for Water Street, we got to hear more about what this project means, not just to our guests, but to Lancaster County as a whole. Why the new shelter? Coming to a […]
Building A Relational Community
“Nobody can help everybody, but everybody can help somebody.” This truth lays the foundation for an inspiring story that has impacted our hearts here at Water Street. Based on the New York Times Bestseller, Same Kind of Different as Me is a movie that portrays the true story of a modern day slave, an international […]
Clothing a Community
As you can imagine, providing clothing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness is one of the vital functions of our initial rescue services. However, the volunteer and staff time needed to effectively manage the inventory and logistics involved can certainly be unwieldy. Thankfully, with the opening of Community Aid’s Lancaster store in November, Water Street […]
Soup’s On!
Thanks to the team at Isaac’s Famous Grilled Sandwiches at The Shoppes at Greenfield, for your …