Stories Category

By Shawn DeBaar, Executive Director, NeighborLink Fort Wayne As another year comes to a close, I find myself reflecting not just on numbers, projects completed, or hours volunteered—but on faithfulness. Faithfulness looks a lot like a neighbor showing up with a rake on a cold morning.It looks like a volunteer kneeling to fix a step […]

Take a look around and you’ll find neighbors everywhere. In this video, we’d like to introduce you to Melina, a single mom who knew she needed a change after life seemed to be falling apart.

Fort Wayne, IN— On Thursday, September 1, 2022, NeighborLink Fort Wayne’s Executive Director, Eric Wood, will be featured on ABC’s national news program Good Morning America, in partnership with Marvel Comics and State Farm Insurance. “It was an honor to have them spend the day with us and see what it means to love our […]

I was driving to the church building when my tire blew out. It was around 90 degrees that afternoon and I hadn’t noticed that the tire was deflated. The dangerous combination of heat and air caused the pressure inside of the tire to increase until… BAM! The unmistakable sound of what used to be a […]

Think back to a time when you were lost when trying to go somewhere new. Did you stop a stranger and ask for assistance? Odds are, you pushed through until you figured it out on your own or got even more lost. Things could have been so much easier if you would have stopped and […]

For several years, NeighborLink has partnered with the City of Fort Wayne’s Division of Community Development/Office of Housing and Neighborhood Services to help execute a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is common for home repair needs of our neighbors to exceed the skills of […]