Ways We Care for Community

Supporting the Diaper Bank

As a responsive household of faith, we are sent forth to bear witness to God’s reconciling reign in our community and our world. Joining with Christ in his work of love, peace and justice, we seek to overcome the barriers that divide us, particularly the challenges of racism and poverty. Inspired by the Spirit, we share God’s good gifts with generous and energetic commitment.
Highland is committed to increasing our mission giving each year. We share over $100,000 with community agencies and countless hours of hands-on service. We hope you will join us!

Our Community Service Committee supports the following community ministries (in alphabetical order):

  • Highland and Temple Emmanuel have joined together to Adopt A Street, a stretch of Cloverdale Avenue, through the Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful department. Anyone age 16 or older who would like to volunteer is welcome. Please contact Debbie Layman.
  • ABC of NC Child Development – dedicated to providing high-quality, evidence-based diagnostic, therapeutic, and educational services to people with autism spectrum disorder; ensuring service accessibility to individuals from any economic background; offering support and hope to families; and advocating for inclusion and acceptance. If you’d like to get involved at ABC of NC, click here to visit their volunteer page.
  • Action4Equity – a black-led, intentionally multi-racial coalition of educators, parents, students, faith leaders, and community members building a movement to advance equity for students in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in the areas of academic achievement, access to high-quality instruction, and safe and healthy school environments. Learn how to be an advocate here.
  • Ardmore Remote Learning Center – Remote Learning Centers serve as an extension to Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools by providing spaces where small groups of students can go to access WiFi, get support, supervision, and engage in some social interaction with their peers when not in a school building. Click here to learn more.
  • Bethesda Center – providing shelter for homeless men and women through a day shelter and an emergency night shelter. If you’d like to volunteer at the Bethesda Center, click here to visit their volunteer page.
  • CareNet Counseling, Inc. – is a non-profit agency, affiliated with Wake Forest Baptist Health, which provides a full range of counseling services to the public.
  • Children’s Law Center – providing children with quality legal advocacy focusing on domestic violence issues, high-conflict custody cases, and the rights of children in public education.
  • City With Dwellings – City with Dwellings, along with community partners, will provide shelter on nights when the temperature is expected to drop below 32 degrees OR drop below 38 degrees with precipitation (www.wunderground.com is our weather determinate). A white flag will be flown at the Community First Center, (502 N. Broad St.) located in downtown Winston-Salem, by 12:00 noon alerting our neighbors on the street of available shelter in combination with Street Outreach Team who will notify and offer transportation to our neighbors outside the downtown area. Volunteers will be contacted and mobilized to offer a warm and safe place to sleep, a meal, and a welcoming spirit for our neighbors who have nowhere else to go in extreme weather conditions. Learn more and volunteer here. (Click Saturdays at St. Timothy’s to learn more about helping the women who were served by the overflow shelter there for the last 10 years.)
  • Community Care Center – Volunteers providing free or reduced-fee medical and dental care to low-income, uninsured families in Forsyth, Stokes and Davie counties. If you’d like to volunteer at the Community Care Center, click here to visit their volunteer page.
  • Crisis Control Ministry – a Christian-based ministry assisting people in crisis to meet essential life needs and to become self-sufficient. If you’d like to get involved at Crisis Control, click here to visit their volunteer page.
  • Diaper Bank of NC – addressing a great need in our community, the lack of affordable diapers for children in struggling families: “keeping tiny tushes healthy and happy in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina.” See their Facebook page here.
  • Family Services Domestic Violence Shelter – assisting women, children and men who are victims of sexual assault or domestic violence. Support the Early Head Start Program, a preschool for low income families – find out more on the Family Services website.
  • Forsyth Backpack Program – feeding chronically hungry school children in the local school system so they can grow physically and mentally. Our community as a whole benefits when kids are well nourished and well educated. We are feeding our future, one backpack at a time. Click here to learn how you can help.
  • Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministry – providing Christian Ministry, counseling and re-entry guidance to the incarcerated in our area. If you’d like to get involved with the Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministry, click here to visit their volunteer page.
  • greeNest – a unique local program, modeled after The Green Chair Project in Wake County, providing household furnishings to individuals and families transitioning to sustainable housing. Click here for ways to get involved.
  • Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County – helping families achieve strength, stability, and self-reliance through home ownership. Learn how you can help here.
  • iCan House – supports and enhances the lives of those with social challenges and their families by teaching social and life skills using our own unique, interactive and engaging curriculum. Visit their volunteer page here.
  • Mental Health Association – a non-profit, non-governmental agency that promotes mental health for all persons in our community through advocacy, outreach, education and support.
  • Moore Elementary School Food Pantry and Back to School Drive – In 2013, Highland and Temple Emanuel joined together to provide a pantry for families of Moore Elementary School. It was the first school based pantry to open in Forsyth County and served as a model for future school pantries in the county. We offer shelf stable items as well as fresh produce, fruit, bread, and frozen meat to families that have children enrolled at Moore Elementary School. In 2016, a back-to-school supply drive was added for Moore Elementary School Food Pantry Students. Please contact the church office, 336.724.6303, to learn how you can be involved in this rewarding community service ministry.
  • Presbyterian Campus Ministry – ministering with and among the students and faculty at our local institutions: North Carolina School for the Arts, Salem College, Wake Forest University and Winston Salem State University.
  • Presbyterian Interracial Dialogue – offers members of our six Presbyterian churches in Winston-Salem the opportunity to explore our common Christian bonds across racial lines. The purpose is to gain a greater understanding of the impact of racism in our own lives, make good friends across racial lines, and to make a positive witness in our city of the possibilities of reconciliation. To view the .pdf version of the PIRD Mission Statement, click here. If you would like more information, please speak to a pastor or contact the Church Office, 724-6303.
  • Riverwood Therapeutic Riding Center – providing quality, professional equine assisted activities for both children and adults. Equine assisted activities help to improve muscle tone, balance, posture, coordination and motor development as well as emotional well being. To find out more about volunteering at RTRC, click here.
  • Samaritan Ministries – providing Christian ministry while serving the hungry, homeless, and people in need through a soup kitchen, men’s shelter and residential substance abuse recovery program for men. To find out more about volunteering at Samaritan Ministries, click here. If you have questions, please contact Vania Elliott, 336.748.1962.
  • Second Harvest Food Bank – reducing hunger and malnutrition in northwest NC by sharing the abundance so no one goes hungry. Learn how to help here.
  • Senior Services – coordinating and overseeing in-home services, as well as offering direct services for seniors, enabling them to live with dignity and remain at home for as long as possible; serving as an information and referral source for seniors, and providing adult day care services. Learn ways to volunteer here. *Contact Reassurance – offering free daily personal, outbound phone calls to isolated older adults or other homebound persons in our community who wish to live independently.
  • Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem – an interfaith ministry that promotes and supports successful aging by providing direct services (transportation, minor home repairs and supportive caregiver services), volunteer opportunities and health and wellness programs for older adults.
  • Sunnyside Ministry – A Christian based ministry (focused on clients in the 27107 and 27127 zip codes) providing families with emergency assistance for life’s basic needs.
  • Trinity Center – an ecumenical center for counseling, spiritual formation and education, fostering healing and wholeness, and serving a diverse client population that includes men, women, children, adolescents, single people, married couples, professionals and those who are unemployed.
  • Winston Salem Rescue Mission – a non-profit, non-denominational, Christ-centered ministry established as a response to hundreds of homeless men wandering the streets of Winston-Salem.

Click for Highland’s Request for Support Form A and Request for Support Form B.