At Open Arms Community we celebrated Easter both the week before and the week after Easter. Since we are not a worshiping congregation,...

In 2023 many people, especially those who live in cities, would answer this question "No". If questioned "Why not?" Some might bemoan...

Each culture has its own special holiday traditions. In fact, some of our most treasured Christmas traditions were originally borrowed...

We recently started our fall programs again. That means on Tuesday evenings we have several students in kindergarten through third grade...

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...

Last weekend our youth group joined several other churches and organizations from around Winston-Salem in supporting the Shalom Project...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!...

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...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

The temperature keeps dropping, which means that even if the children tell us they aren't cold when they play outside (because they run...