The mission of RHHP..

The mission of RHHP is to provide a Christian community setting where persons of various cultures learn from each other, the surrounding neighborhood, and life in Baltimore city. We believe that people's lives are blessed by being part of faith communities.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Our new neighborhood playground





http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-playground-ravens-20110616,0,1740688.story#tugs_story_display

Last Thursday found scores of purple-clad volunteers converging on the German Park playground to erect a brand new playground for the neighborhood children. The Ravens helped pay for it and energized a community effort to provide the local children with play structures that they were actually excited about.

RHHP resident Anna was one of those volunteers who put in a day's of hard work and had sore muscles to prove it. There was a party at the playground this afternoon to celebrate the opening of the park. An ice-cream truck stopped by and handed out free ice-cream cones.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Sarah's big concert







Sarah, of Sarah and Jeff, our housemates and neighbors on the second floor, recently pulled off a chorus performance involving half the student population of the Baltimore Highlands Elementary School. It was a musical featuring space aliens (green, of course) who delivered an urgent message that the earth is fragile and needed to be protected. It was a clever way to encourage greater environmental consciousness through conservation and recycling . Feedback from the parents and her colleagues was overwhelmingly positive. One parent had said that this concert was the most successful in 20 years! The principal also gave her a rave review.

Also, Paul Schlitz, member of North Baltimore Mennonite Church, accompanied the chorus and band. We were greatly impressed by Sarah's professionalism and the way she exercised command over a situation involving large numbers of squirmy kids. Any number of things could have gone wrong and they did but she handled those with great poise.