The Justice Project

In an insurrection against poverty & radical hope toward those caught in its cycle, we’ll live out Jesus’ core values by serving Charlotte’s most fragile communities in ways that help unleash a goodness revolution. We specifically seek to help transform at risk neighborhoods… one at a time... Last year we began in Optimist Park. Due to a great impact last year, this year, Captains in the Charlotte Police Department have asked us to set our sights on Villa Heights.

The Nitty Gritty

The Justice Project, a yearly comprehensive community service initiative, will be launched in Villa Heights, a marginalized inner-city neighborhood. A diverse collection of communities & individuals have signed on to go about doing good in Villa Heights via 9 months of sweat equity, kamikaze servanthood, radical generosity, & for those serving who are followers of Christ, prayer & a dare for God to make good on an Isaiah 58 promise.

This is about ordinary Joes & Janes answering the call to use our personalities, passions, & skills, to show our corner of the world what goodness looks like walking around in a    t-shirt & jeans, carrying hope & an agenda to help better the lives of those it comes in contact with, especially the marginalized.  Awaken the hero within. Join this goodness revolution.

 

Justice Project D.N.A.
Intensely relational & 2 Way Transformational

Two Ways To Sign Up For Any Area Of Service
Join a team or be on call.

    
On A Team:
Those who want to be a part of the process from connecting with residents & strategizing, to the completion of a service project in the area of choice.

On Call:
Those called on to serve in a specific area on the day of implementation when volunteers are needed.

“You don’t have to travel to a third world country to serve the needy.
Look in your own corner of the world to find your Calcutta
& begin to pour yourself out into it.” -Mother Theresa

The List of Service Project Areas

Home Improvement: Small to mid-sized house repairs & painting projects.  Can you swing a hammer or a brush?

Home Security: Installing peepholes, deadbolts, fire extinguishers, smoke & monoxide detectors.  Reducing crime & saving lives with a power drill & a few donated weekend afternoons.

Landscaping: Residential lot clearing & cleaning, & various kinds of yard work. Go ahead, get your hands dirty to make things beautiful.

Auto Repair: Diverse kinds of auto maintenance & repair projects. Take a look under the hood & help get someone rolling again.

Tutoring: After-school tutoring. Computer tutoring. Or, English as a Second Language tutoring.  C’mon,  share the knowledge.

Financial Management: Providing personal financial management & budget mentoring. Good with money? Replicate those skills in others.

Counseling: Qualified & experienced individuals providing marriage & parenting counseling. 

Networking: Helping connect residents to government agencies that exist to meet their major short-term or more long-term crisis needs.

Radical Hospitality: Primarily focused on single parent homes, the elderly, & families undergoing  hardship, we seek to provide a wide variety of intensely personalized services which work to ease burdens & pamper those in stressful life seasons.  

Home Cleaning: Making homes sparkle & shine with elbow grease & a few hours helping bring order to chaos.

Mini-extreme Home Makeover: From the yard, house repairs, inside upgrades, all the way to home decoration, a few homeowners will get a top to bottom mini-home makeover.  

Community Building: Putting together community gatherings & events that promote relationship building between residents.

Seasonal Service: During Fall: help organize or give donations for a school supply drive & handout event.  During Winter: help supply resident children with a warm winter coats & gloves. During Easter, Thanksgiving, & Christmas; opportunity to serve needy families in holiday appropriate ways.

The Grid: 1. Uniting Villa Heights church leadership for the purpose of helping them work together to create strategy for the long-term spiritual good of the residents. 2. Uniting V.H. churches in a season of strategic prayer for their neighborhood.

Prayer Team: Praying with residents, doing neighborhood prayer walks, & mapping out the neighborhood’s toughest issues for targeted intercession.
 
V.H. Small Groups:Hosting a wives club, men’s group, youth group, bible study,
or other types of affinity groups. Help instigate conversations about life, relationships, navigating life purpose, & relevant solutions to common challenges.

Fresh Ideas: Got a fresh & unique idea about a project you or your group would like to do that would serve individuals, families, or kids in this neighborhood?  Let’s connect.