WELCOME Greetings! Bernabé Community Center extends a heartfelt welcome. As you discover Bernabé, you will find our online home encouraging and inspiring. We’re about people helping people help themselves. Our story is about local inner-city residents taking ownership of their neighborhood and how that decision changed and continues to change their community. Piece by piece, dream by dream, hope by hope everyday people—from elementary kids to senior citizens—are improving their attitude and opportunities in business, home, and school environments. How do you change a community from the inside out? Any positive change starts first and foremost with each person consciously owning their decisions in the past and for the future. Maturity comes from taking up the mantle to be proactive in improving your position in life through education, better communication with associates, and in holding a positive attitude. The results are astounding. Choosing to not to be cynical or to blame oneself or others generates hope, and hope creates people who are resilient, determined, and creative in finding solutions to problems. Here's a snapshot of what happens throughout the year in Bernabé: A child joins a community team and discovers self-discipline, team cooperation, and responsibility and his attitude changes and improves his performance in school and at home. A business professional enters a free Bernabé counseling session and discovers for the first time how to relate better to her teenage son. A middle-age man who works in an industrial job wants very much to improve his English and enters one of the Bernabéi ESL courses. His boss notices and new doors of opportunity open up at work. A single mother has trouble raising her son with quality values. She finds out about a community center that offers parenting classes with other parents. Within weeks she has a whole new view on how to encourage her child. In a world that is often selfish and self-centered, it is a wonder to see an organization devoted to helping people become physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually stronger and desirous to share goodwill toward others. Even as you read this welcome, there are wonderful improvements being nurtured in the lives of children and adults at Bernabé. Come, join us! We look forward to knowing more about you. "What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character." President George W. Bush, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2001 (1946- ) Click on Redeemer Covenant Church. if you came from their site and wish to return to it.