by admin | Mar 16, 2017 | Stories
Come celebrate the sweetness of our community’s new home! ¡Venga y celebre con nosotros la dulcera de nuestro nuevo hogar! After years of prayer, planning and preparing our community finally has a new home! Let’s celebrate together on April 1st. Tour the...
by admin | Mar 9, 2017 | Stories, wishlist
Would you like to help Casa Chirilagua when you shop on Amazon? Use our Amazon Smile link when you shop and we’ll automatically receive a percentage of your purchase amount as a donation from Amazon!
by admin | Feb 16, 2017 | KidsClub, Mentoring, Stories
This is not Andres’* typical Saturday morning. The alarm goes off very early. Waking up his first thought is that it must be a school day—it’s usually what happens when the alarm goes off this early. But his mom reminds him this is no school day. This is the day he...
by admin | Jan 27, 2017 | KidsClub, Stories
Kids Club student a winner of MLK Day drawing contest! In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day students at Mount Vernon participated in a drawing contest with the prompt “Who inspires you?” When he heard this question, 5th grader Carlos* knew immediately...
by admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Mentoring, Stories
“I’m really surprised at the impact that Jose* and his family have had on me,” reflects Todd, a Casa Chirilagua mentor. It was a year ago that Todd attended an Alexandria Mentoring Partnership information session and considered whether or not to become a mentor with...
by admin | Jan 4, 2017 | Stories, Uncategorized
“Casa is a big believer in meeting the needs of the whole person, whether that is spiritual, physical and emotional…Seeing entire families transformed was incredibly inspiring.” Meet the Latino Urban Ministry That is Transforming...