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Pivot was the featured nonprofit in the March 2022 issue of Winston-Salem Monthly magazine! The article delves into what Pivot does, notes how we impact lives across our community, and raises awareness of Pivot. YOU can help spread the news, too! Check out the article HERE, and then share the link and your comments about Pivot within your sphere of influence via text, email, or social media.
PLUS: Consider donating – and asking others to donate – to reach our $15,000 spring goal, since YOU make #PivotPossible. Click HERE to donate.
RESOURCES: Graphics are available for your social media posts HERE.
Graduates of Pivot’s Fourth Class with their Mentors
On Saturday, December 11th, Pivot held a graduation ceremony for its fourth class of participants (Click here to watch on YouTube.) We are praising God for:
We’re so grateful for all these things and our God who makes then possible.
Life Skills
Job Readiness
Bible Study
1-on-1 Christian Mentor
16 weeks to Graduate
Scholarships for up to 8 women
Click here -or- contact Carol Polk or Michelle Minnich.
A new semester of in-person classes with up to 7 women is scheduled to begin in August 2022 with COVID precautions
Join us in celebrating all God is doing.
Pictured is volunteer instructor Debbie Loftis.
For its fourth semester since inception, Pivot classes resumed in person in August with four passionate and motivated women and COVID protocols in place. Ranging in ages from 19 to 72, each of the participants is eagerly seeking new direction and next steps for her life. They are bonding to form community, laughing, crying, growing, and sharing with each other their challenges, celebrations, and progress, while already serving as accountability partners for each other. Incredible volunteer instructors are pouring into participants life-changing tools, knowledge, and growth opportunities. Mentors and participants are now matched and are beginning to develop trusting relationships. Pray for 100% graduation rate, so that all four women overcome barriers and follow through. Pray for participants, instructors, mentors, meal providers, and staff that this semester will be successful and life-changing so that each will flourish to be all God created them to be in relationships with themselves, with God, with others, and with their respective resources. Also pray for protection from COVID and other illness so that the classes will continue safely in person.
Carol accepts laptop from Solve, Inc.
Because Pivot supporters ‘Liked’ and ‘Shared’ during a recent contest hosted on Facebook — WE WON! We had 10 times the number of likes and shares as the runner up.
Pivot was one of seven local nonprofits in the running for a free laptop from Solve, Inc., a Triad-based Information Technology company. Wendy Dixon of Solve presented the brand new laptop to Carol Polk on Friday, July 9th at noon. (View video here.)
Now we’ll have a dedicated computer in the Pivot classroom for instructors to use for their presentations! Thanks to Solve and our supporters for making this possible!
PIvot Ministry’s Annual Meeting was held, via Zoom, on May 26th. A recording of this meeting is available using the link below:
Annual Meeting Recording
Access Passcode: N2J%Jyj? (Hint: copy before clicking the above link)
Note: Skip forward to 1:30 into the recording to avoid the wait-time at the beginning as the meeting starts…
Click here to read Pivot’s November 2020 newsletter. (PDF, 828 kb)
Be inspired as you:
I didn’t think anyone could look beyond my past. Following rehab and jail, I moved back home with my mom, was jobless, had no license, and had lost custody of my daughter. In jail, I had turned to God, not that I didn’t believe in Him, but didn’t think He could love me after all I had done. To say the least, I was unsure of a lot, except that God loved me and wanted me to have faith, not fear.
My pastor’s wife told me about an opportunity that would provide tools for change. I immediately committed… READ MORE
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Thanks to Pilot Mountain Baptist Association (PMBA) for letting us provide this link to their video recording of Carol Polk’s presentation on April 29th, 2020. Based on lessons learned through Pivot, Carol shares how we, as the body of Christ and during unprecedented unemployment, can mobilize others and minister to folks in life-changing ways.
