About Us

Joyful Harvest Neighborhood Center is always looking for ways to better impact the lives of the families that live in our community. As such, we try our best to not only work with the community members, but also to listen to their concerns and work together to build a stronger neighborhood.

If you have any ideas of how we might better serve the Water Street community of Biddeford, please let us know.

Current newsletter

View our most recent issue of “Joyful Tidings” to see what’s up with Joyful Harvest and how you can help us. Click on the link below to view or right-click on it and choose “save as” if you’d like to put it on your hard drive and view it later:

Winter 2011/2012 newsletter

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Mission

Our Mission: Valuing children, youth and families, we at Joyful Harvest believe that our work makes a profound difference in the lives of children and families who take part in our programs. Through providing a safe place with caring relationships, structured activities, educational support and opportunities for service, leadership or team work; there is development …

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History

Joyful Harvest Neighborhood Center had its beginnings as a seed American Baptist Church planted in 1995. With Rev Laura Holt-Haslam as pastor the meetings were first held in homes, then latter on Bacon St, Biddeford, ME in 1997. As the congregation felt called to work with the poor and broken of the city, work began …

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Staff

Joyful Harvest has always used a rather unique approach to programming, due to partnerships with local universities and other organizations, we partner with groups to provide day to day programming. Currently we partner with Art Van, Boys Scouts, University of Maine Extension program and the University of New England for programming. All volunteers and staff …

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