June 6, 2022
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS. Are you interested in supporting K-12 students and their families? Do you have a few hours a week to mentor, tutor or lend a helping hand to support a youth program? Would you like to develop long-lasting, amazing, and mutually transformative relationships in a Christian-based ministry? If so, consider becoming a volunteer at Abundant Life Ministries. PLEASE VIEW OUR...
June 3, 2022
Spring Break STRIVE Trip
This Spring, the Abundant Life STRIVE program celebrated togetherness and brotherhood on their annual Spring Trip. “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” Galatians 3:26 KJV The Abundant Life STRIVE Program was designed to foster and further leadership skills. This program focuses on preparing young men in our community, in grades 9th through 12th, to develop positive...
June 1, 2022
Program Director reports Annual Program Metrics
Out of the neighborhood programming centered around bible lessons and community, grew Abundant Life Ministries. 25 years later, alongside our neighbors, Abundant Life has been building relationships and walking with the community through love and our programs. Following the thick of the global pandemic, our Program Metrics have been reported. Abundant Life_Program Metrics_updated 2023_May...
May 4, 2022
1st Annual Community Festival Success
On Saturday, April 23rd, Abundant Life hosted its first-ever, annual Community Festival. This time of great fellowship with our neighbors was a blessing from God, following the hardships of the Pandemic. “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.” Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Abundant Life staff began preparing...
November 8, 2021
Abundant Life Hires New Executive Director
The Board of Directors for Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries is excited to welcome Eddie Howard as its new Executive Director. Eddie grew up in the Prospect neighborhood, Abundant Life’s focus for ministry, and served on staff for eight years, building deep relationships in the community and helping to launch our 5/8 Program. After his initial time with Abundant Life, Eddie moved to...
October 8, 2021
Road tripping STRIVE alums celebrate Chris Nocks’s boot camp graduation
An African-American, Black-American, Latino, and White-American walk onto a Marine training base… On September 24th, Chris Nocks, STRIVE Class of 2021, graduated from Marine Corps Boot Camp on Parris Island. The journey just to get to Parris Island required sacrifice, strength, and determination. Throughout high school, Chris had served his community: as a 5/8 Club summer intern, a volunteer...