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Monday
Feb152010

Fill That Bus!

Residents of Western New York are teaming up with the Salvation Army in New Orleans for a 8 day service mission trip this April. Eastern Hills Wesleyan Church is filling a bus load of people eager to continue aiding New Orleans still rebuilding after Katrina. READ MORE...

Friday
Feb122010

Stamp Out Hunger

The Buffalo City Mission has launched its now annual Stamp Out Hunger Campaign this February to raise awareness and money to feed the hungry as well as reward participants with cool prizes for getting involved. READ MORE...

Friday
Feb122010

Inside City Manor

When Lisa Bouw stood in the doorway of her new, private family suite, she broke down and cried.

     It was a long way from the sense of doom she had felt only weeks before coming; or before that, when she boarded an airplane to Buffalo not knowing what lie ahead.

     “As the plane was taking off, I was so overwhelmed with emotion,” Lisa said. “In that moment, it was like a death and rebirth.” READ MORE...

Friday
Jan012010

Poverty. Do you think about it?

By Stuart Harper, Executive Director of the Buffalo City Mission

With an estimated 30.3% of its population living below the poverty line, the City of Buffalo holds tight in its position as the third poorest large city in the United States, behind only Detroit, MI and Cleveland, OH. The percentage of Buffalo’s population living in poverty has increased by 1.6% since 2007.[1]  READ MORE...

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