WLOS Person of the Week: Rebecca Williams
March 1, 2010
Take a look at this great link to WLOS’s person of the Week.
This week they spotlighted Rebecca Williams and “Always Expect Miracles”.
Congratulations to Rebecca and the whole cast,
http://www.wlos.com/newsroom/potw/videos/vid_38.shtml?sms_ss=email
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The performances continue to get better and better. If you want to hear about some history of Asheville and sotries from the community this is a must see!
This project started out as an inaugural signature fund raiser for Homeward Bound, whose mission is ‘working with others to end chronic homelessness’ by helping homeless individuals find and maintain permanent housing. Our primary purpose is to help homeless individuals find and maintain affordable, permanent housing.
Homeward Bound staff and volunteers assist the many people who come through our A HOPE Day Center every day to become healthier and safer by addressing each individual’s barriers to stable, permanent housing. Working together with the staff of A HOPE, Safe Haven and Room in the Inn, Homeward Bound’s Pathways to Permanent Housing program moves individuals from the streets and shelters into permanent housing. Pathways to Permanent Housing staff then assist in providing the services needed to enable these individuals to continue to be healthier and to stay in their homes.
So, we started on this journey……..collected 50-60 stories from all segments of the Asheville community. We contracted with a professional group, Community Performance, Inc. to make sure we ‘did it right’. From these stories gathered from the community – some from the homeless, formerly homeless, downtown merchants, friends and neighbors, chamber members, the mayor, etc., and a play was written. The underlying theme was one of transformation – thus the naming of the play, ‘Always Expect Miracles’.
What started out as that signature fund raiser has become so much more – it’s all about relationship. The magic between these 60-75 volunteer cast members is something to see. Conversations flow between people who might not have otherwise ever spoken to each other. The cast is as diverse as those we gathered the stories from. Working together they have realized, as you believe, that they can make a difference in their own lives and in that of their community.
Come see it!