Serving the Community continues to reach out —
Add to a bag of groceries picked up at One Heart for Women and Children a few words of “food” for the soul and heart. Write a card every Sunday or write them at home and bring them to church.
And, Friends of New Images Youth Center, is collecting gently used jewelry for their Mother’s Day “Jewelry Boutique” -open to children so they can select a gift for their mothers.
The 2nd Annual Harvest Celebration was wonderfully fun and and entertaining for our children, our volunteers and our audience Games in the morning, lunch as a break and the Variety Show in the morning was a great success. View more photos of the fun here. See you next year!
Fun in the morning, lunch break and Variety Show – Come for all, come for part.
There may still be time to volunteer. Contact: NewImageYouth@orlandouu.org
Taken from an August 5, 2023 Orlando Sentinel article
Now a fixture in Parramore, the New Image Youth Center has purchased a building at 446 S. Parramore Ave. with the help of a $1 million grant provided by the Heart of Florida United Way to ensure it will forever remain in the community.
“It’s a little bit overwhelming,” Barton-Stubbs said. “When you’re here, you’re doing the work. You don’t necessarily think about what you mean to each individual child, each family or even the community as a whole. …Today I was humbled. Today we’re living history out loud.”
If you’ve never been to the New Image Youth Center, Jeff Hayward, president and CEO of the Heart of Florida United Way, said the best time to visit is when the students are just arriving.
“It is utter magic,” Hayward said. “When they come in through the doors, they rush over to Ms. Shanta and they’ve got big hugs, they’ve got smiles. If they had a bad day, they’ve got someone to talk to. All of a sudden the place lights up and there is noise everywhere and it is joyful noise.”
See entire article here.
Dr. Shanta Barton-Stubbs:
For her leadership and dedication to New Images Youth Center in Parramore, Orlando
1U’s Friends of New Image Youth Center team is inviting 1U Families to attend a one day fun camp at 1U.
You need to be there by 10 AM and camp ends at 2PM
Please let us know as soon as possible if you think you might attend.
For more information contact Karen
newimageyouth@orlandouu.org
Coming up on August 1, there will be a lot of kids on our campus—in the rooms of the Enrichment Center, in Gore Hall, at the garden outside … well, everywhere.
The Friends of the New Image Youth Center group have taken this on and we are calling this our One Day Summer Camp at 1U. Kids from the New Image Youth Center (K–12) will join with our RE kids for a day of fun.
But this requires the event to have help … and that is where you come in! The event is from 10:00am to 2:00pm, so there will be lunch, headed up by Roni (thank you Roni!). The beverages will be donated, but we would love to have a wide variety of home-baked cookies to offer and ice pops for after the meal. If anyone can help with that, please let Roni, Steph, or Karen R. know! Want to help get the meal itself? Again, Roni is the one!
Can you come early and help us set up at 9:00am? Or clean up and get things put away? Please contact us if you can at newimageyouth@orlandouu.org. We’d love to have you join the fun!
Connecting with Art: The children did an activity where they viewed pieces of art in one of the galleries, then chose the one they would like to take home and discussed the one they thought took the longest to make and the one that they didn’t understand at all. This made for a fun discussion! Thank you Wendy D. at Rollins Museum of Art.
Seeing the beauty: The final summer museum trip that Wendy D. arranged for the kids from NIYC was at the The Charles Homer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park. The docent Colleen related the history of Louis Tiffany. We looked for shapes and butterflies in the stained glass and art on display, learned new art terms, and visited the beautiful chapel.
Our campus is a busy place as we worship, learn, eat, plan and do. Have a look and link to SMUGMUG here for more. See you literally in the fall. See more here.
Sunday, May 7, 2023, at 10:30am
Worship Leaders: Lisa-Marie Matyas Steinmeyer / Andie Harrell / Barbara Howe, Emmy Collins, Lisa Ruckman and Debra Reinhart as worship leaders / Judith Stein-Farrall / Aubrey Connelly-Candelario / Folk Ensemble / Linnea Nelson
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