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...

We have entered the season of thankfulness. And, since 2020 has been such a difficult year for so many, I think it's important to focus...

I realized that it's time for me to blog again (I am trying to blog at least one time each month), but I couldn't decide what to write...

Yesterday we finally opened our Remote Learning Center. It wasn't in all the rooms possible, and we didn't have 20 students like we hoped...

Today as I was arriving at the center, someone was filling up our Blessing Box. I stuck my head out of my car window and said "Thank you...

I have been at the Open Arms Community for nearly two weeks now. Time flies! In that time we have been doing a lot of little improvements...