The Christian Community

Support in Our Communities. The Valley of the Sun YMCA believes that everyone in our community deserves to be healthy, confident, connected and secure. This is why we emphasize the powerful impact of advocacy for our community. With a focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility, the Valley of the Sun YMCA collaborates with national and community-based leaders and policymakers to grow the resources and support that helps empower individuals, families and communities to…

Throughout this semester I performed a total of 12 hours of service. In March, I completed 2 hours of service at the Friends for the Future Phone-a-thon. At the Phone-a-thon, I was able to give back to our school by connecting with and thanking people who generously donated to Friends for the Future. Afterwards, I performed the Spiritual Work of Mercy, pray for the living, by praying for the people who donated to our school. I chose this service because I love giving back to my school. I…

Contributing to my community has been something that has interested me, and something I've enjoyed since I was a kid. Most of my community service work has been high school, where I found opportunities to help more easily accessible. And not just community service projects, but clubs that helped me and other participating educated others who were not as knowledgeable on black culture or experience, get a view into our lives, while also creating bonds and relationships. African Diaspora is a…

and whom it serves, as well the author’s reflection on the agency and her volunteer experience. Neilson Place Located in Bemidji, Minnesota, Woodsedge Senior Living offers a community for the older population under the Sanford Health organization. Connected on the premises are a nursing…

lives on Mitchell was very disappointed with everything that was taking place in the community. They felt something had to be done to stop all the violence that was going on. Their main concern was a community was to provide a safe environment for the children’s in the area. The main deviant behavior that took place was drug activities, robbery, graffiti, shootings, gambling and gang meetings. They as a community felt they all needed to meet up and speak about on how they need to make a protest…

aging through daily physical and social interactions called community networking. The article describes neighborhoods as geographic places of well/poor being for those that live there. They represent important sites for researcher’s to examine the interrelationships between aging, place, and health.…

Lois Lowry has created a community that on the surface shows peace and harmony. However, underneath this tranquility it’s clear that this has come at the price of freedom, diversity and conflict; elements that enable communities to progress, transform and evolve. Lowry’s community is a representation of our world where everything that makes it unique has been stripped away in the process of creating what is believed to be a utopia. In the community that Lois Lowry has created, freedom has been…

A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. .In the world there are different types of communities. From the ones in high school to career communities. High school communities for example, would be the popular kids, nerds, emo, etc. In the real world, career wise; the communities would be Doctors, Teacher’s, fast-food, etc. All these fall under the category of discourse community. A discourse community is a group of communicators…

this. Asi son las cosas.” This individual, a young 21 year old male, captured what most residents from low-income neighborhoods told me. He expressed resignation towards the strainful conditions that in his opinion were brought upon him and his community by “the system.” Given strains seem to be the prime argument of why low-income residents lack trust in government initiatives. This lack of trust is the reason they oppose and are wary of any systematic solution. Similarly a resident of Watts, a…

Introduction: A discourse is a system of socially constructed knowledge about an aspect of reality (Foucault 1977; Hall 1997; van Leeuwen 2005). The #DontClipTheirWings campaign is concerned with the discourse surrounding gender-differentiated parenting: the act of treating one’s children differently just because of their gender (Raley and Bianchi 2006). Although the dominant discourse has evolved significantly, gender-differentiated parenting remains to be a prevalent issue. The unequal…