Easter Fun
At Open Arms Community we celebrated Easter both the week before and the week after Easter. Since we are not a worshiping congregation,...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Feb 2, 20232 min read
¿Conoce a su vecino? Do you know your neighbor?
In 2023 many people, especially those who live in cities, would answer this question "No". If questioned "Why not?" Some might bemoan...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Dec 22, 20222 min read
Holiday Traditions
Each culture has its own special holiday traditions. In fact, some of our most treasured Christmas traditions were originally borrowed...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Oct 7, 20222 min read
Grateful for skilled volunteers on Tuesdays!
We recently started our fall programs again. That means on Tuesday evenings we have several students in kindergarten through third grade...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Aug 12, 20222 min read
Mutual Aid
According to the Mutual Aid Coop, the term Mutual Aid is "a form of community cooperation where groups of people in a particular area, or...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Jul 22, 20222 min read
Serving a Taste of Culture
Last weekend our youth group joined several other churches and organizations from around Winston-Salem in supporting the Shalom Project...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Jun 15, 20221 min read
Summertime is for Inventory
This summer I am up to my elbows in school supplies, playground equipment, books, and more. It's time to do inventory, to assess the...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Apr 29, 20222 min read
The Neighborhood is Changing
This is the view from the front porch at Open Arms Community center. If I had taken this photo last year, you would have not been able to...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Mar 22, 20222 min read
Kids Club Kicked Off
On March 8th we started a new endeavor. For the first time since Open Arms opened our doors, we changed our tutoring program so that our...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Jan 6, 20223 min read
COVID Casualties
It's 2022, or, as some memes have jokes 2020 - too! That's right, the pandemic is not over folks. As case numbers skyrocket it seems it...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Nov 23, 20212 min read
Let the children play!
Last week it was a little more chaotic and much noisier around the center than it typically is. Why? Because this week there is no...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Oct 28, 20212 min read
Cultural Sensitivity Around Hallowed Dias.
It's the time of year when children everywhere dream of one thing... how to convince the adults in their lives to give them more sugar!...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Sep 29, 20213 min read
Pride and Fear
This past weekend our youth group went on a field trip. I had this field trip in mind when I wrote the grant, when the youth group was...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Jul 14, 20212 min read
Resiliency
The Miriam Webster dictionary defines resiliency as the ability to recover form or adjust easily to adversity or change, or, the ability...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Jun 28, 20213 min read
Been there, done that...
As always, thank you for your support. As always, thank you for your support As always, thank you for your suppor As always, thank you...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
May 26, 20212 min read
Tutoring Program Transformation
As the 2020-2021 school year is winding down, we at Open Arms are beginning to think about next year. We hope that you are too. When...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Apr 12, 20212 min read
Approaching a New Normal
Most students in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools are back to in-person class full time as of either this week or next (depending on...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Mar 5, 20212 min read
I Got My Shot, Did You?
It has been one full year since COVID-19 first came to North Carolina and everything started changing to the "new reality" (I refuse to...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Jan 12, 20212 min read
Representation in Reading
Reading is an important skill. In fact, studies have shown that students who do not read well by the end of third grade are four times...
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Rev. Julie Wilson
Dec 9, 20201 min read
It's beginning to look like Christmas around here
The temperature keeps dropping, which means that even if the children tell us they aren't cold when they play outside (because they run...
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