Alexander House Scholars
Structured support. Intentional community.
Pathways to leadership and career success.
In this season of hopeful anticipation, Urban Hope has been making room for a new generation of leaders. With your prayers and partnership, we have launched the Alexander House Scholars program! Affordable student housing with a discipleship focus - Alexander House Scholars are provided structured support, intentional community, and pathways to leadership and career success. Our vision is for A House Scholars to GROW TOGETHER as followers of Christ, engaged citizens, and agents of transformation.
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About the Alexander House
Legacy
The Alexander House is named after a man named Jay Lynn Alexander, who in 1949, established one of Durham’s first neighborhood recreation centers in Walltown. The Walltown Charitable Community Center (often referred to as “Alexander’s Center”) made available a collection of books and a piano. Every week a door-to-door collection supplied the weekly activities which included preschool programs, dances, movies, and seasonal festivities. A resident of Walltown, Mr. Alexander established the center on what was then 5th Street, now known as Sedgefield Street, when he saw that the community needed a place for children to have wholesome, supervised recreation. He also worked as a custodian at Duke for 44 years. Through his relationship with Duke, and North Carolina Central, students from both universities volunteered at the Center.
Vision
Urban Hope is a community-based youth ministry in Walltown whose mission is to “raise up generations of young heroes—who are beating the odds by the grace of God—through creating safe places in our neighborhood to grow together into wholeness.” We envision The Alexander House to be another safe place where youth and adults can learn together what it means to be disciples of Christ. To that end, The Alexander House will be a place of both refuge and cultivation, both protection and production. We imagine it being a space where young people are invited to develop a deep sense of character, calling, leadership, and a love of learning. Ultimately, The Alexander House will be a place where we nurture a hope in Jesus Christ, a hope that through Him we can create a new way of life together.
“Growing together”
Ready to join other Bull City Leaders as an Alexander House Scholar?
Become, Commune, and Lead with Urban Hope!
Grow in…
independence and accountability
Christlikeness
knowledge
Together as…
intentional community members
stakeholders
leaders and role models
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