"Family Promise Metrowest is grateful for the incredibly generous donation from Wellesley Hills Congregational Church as our organization relies on the support of congregations like yours to help vulnerable families throughout the region. Through our LIFE Program families facing eviction are diverted from entering shelter and put on a path to secure housing. The amount donated by your congregation is the equivalent of keeping SIX families in the LIFE Program from ever having to experience the trauma of homelessness. Families who already are experiencing homelessness receive services through our Shelter Program. In the past, your congregation opened its doors and turned your classrooms into bedrooms, where our families would stay overnight for several weeks throughout the year. That model is changing, however, and in a few months renovations to our Day Center in Natick will be completed allowing families to stay in one place until they secure permanent housing. It’s a big change for us. But one thing will remain the same: the support from congregations like yours that help us keep pace with the increasing demand for our services. We are so very grateful."

• Should we develop a landscape “master plan” for the campus?
• Should we seek to plant a trees, a garden, many trees to commemorate the upcoming 175^th anniversary of a church in Granville?
• What about the garth (i.e., courtyard)?
• Should the parking lot continue to be a sea of asphalt?
• Would some additional planting enhance the parsonage?