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Storefront at the Hub Center at 4194 Bolivar Road,
Wellsville, will be the site for a new multi-church Hope Center, an outreach,
information and referral, education and reading center, to assist Allegany
County residents with all types of concerns. It is expected to open in
November.
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"What God is Doing in Allegany County" will be the
focus of a prayer, praise and worship gathering of county churches and the
public Sunday night, October 28, with particular emphasis on public literacy,
personal trauma and expanding efforts by Mission Genesee Valley churches for
community transformation and revival throughout the area.
The session will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Knights
Creek Church, 2987 Knights Creek Road (County Road 9), at Scio as part of a
twice-a-month rotating series at various Allegany County locations.
The October event will include an update and prayer about
the soon-to-be-opened Hope Center, a community outreach, information and
referral, education and reading assistance center at 4194 Bolivar Road, across the
drive from the McDonald's drive-through at Wellsville.
A key component of the project will be reading assistance
for children and adults due to several thousand individuals in the county
having poor literacy skills that can result in trauma, lower paying jobs,
family strife, incarceration and more.
October is National Dyslexia Awareness Month.
Information also will be available on multi-location
Celebrate Recovery ministries, including a recently-added group in Houghton, an
initiative to improve music literacy through a county children and youth choir
and orchestra, Surviving the Holidays series for those struggling with
bereavement, separation or divorce, or grieving children from a variety of
circumstances, and early school release time for Christian education. All of these are efforts for churches to
provide additional communities of care and outreach, individually or on a
shared basis, in their neighborhoods and congregations.
Allegany County churches come together at the twice-a-month
Journey to Transformation sessions for renewing of individual minds and hearts
to combat issues of addiction, abuse, racism, suicide, poverty, family
dysfunction and more that pastors say are growing throughout this area, the
United States and world. Prayer topics
have included schools and colleges, the local economy, veterans, substance
abuse, children and families and more.
In addition to Sunday night prayer gatherings, the Journey
to Transformation prayer focus also includes Friday night rotating community
prayer, with a growing multi-church emphasis on the renewal of minds and hearts
of individuals and families for county and communities transformation through
prayer for the host and other churches and Christian organizations,
individuals, the community, county and more.
A third set of weekly community prayer gatherings for
individual and general concerns, including family members and friends, are held
weekday mornings in Scio, Wednesday mornings in Belfast and Saturday mornings
in Fillmore.
Members of the public with prayer needs are welcome to
attend any of these gatherings.
Further information about dates and locations and the
Journey to Transformation initiative is available at
www.facebook.com/TransformationJourneyUSA, or from Pastor Dan Kenyon of
Wellsville Bible Church, Mission Genesee Valley chair, at wbc@ne.twcbc.com or
(585) 593-6471, or most area pastors.
Individuals also may obtain periodic email notifications by forwarding
their name, community and email address to bps461@msn.com with the notation
"Subscribe-Mission Genesee Valley" in the subject line