Community Calendar

Enjoy a great evening of a chili dinner and a silent auction, all while supporting the mission of Christian Job Corps. Be on the lookout for our auction page to preview the items and baskets we will have for sale!
To purchase tickets: https://cwjcabilene.breezechms.com/form/466eea
This event will be in the Fellowship Hall of St. Paul United Methodist Church. The entrance is next to the playground on the corner of N. 5th Street and Beech Street.

A fun event for the WHOLE FAMILY to enjoy with Singer-Songwriter, ventriloquist, and Author-Illustrator Brent Vernon & his pal, Sam! Presented by Westminster Presbyterian Church, 4515 S. 14th Street, Abilene TX. No charge/Love Offering Accepted

Enjoy music, dancing, drumming, and other interfaith performers outdoors celebrating the 25th anniversary of the official founding of Abilene Interfaith Council. Everyone Welcome.

The Tree of Mercy Benefit Dinner will benefit the Namwianga Mission Hospital in Zambia. Doors open at 5:00 PM for the African Gift Shop and Silent Auction. Dinner will be served at 6:00 PM, with the program following.

For more information and to RSVP, please visit www.zambiamission.org/events or call us at 1-800-993-3461.

Get ready for the YMCA of Abilene's annual spooktacular Halloween Trunk or Treat! You and your family will not want to miss this one day only event.

What: Trunk or Treat at the Y
When: Saturday, October 18th from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Where: Outside in the front parking lot
Who: Everyone in the Big Country area. This event is family friendly!

This event is free to the public! We will have face painting, apple bobbing, corn hole, multiple booth vendors with drinks, sweets, and treats, a pumpkin patch for pictures and purchase, and many more festival type games for everyone to enjoy. Come dressed to impress in your costumes and plan to play for your candy!

Do you need some household items, but don’t want to pay full price for them? Come check out the Discovery Center Fundraising Yard Sale the last weekend of October! On Friday, October 24, and Saturday, the 25th, we will have odds and ends for sale in Discovery Park—at the corner of South 8th and Poplar Streets. Featured items include a Kirby vacuum cleaner, refrigerator dolly, household paint kit, walker, heater, a few furniture items, an aviary, small appliances, bedding and other odds and ends. We also have books, gift items and apparel in our Truth Bookstore. Items are priced to sell, and proceeds benefit The Discovery Center Museum. The gate opens at 8:00 am, and we will close at 6:00 pm.

In one of the most renowned plays of the American theater, Blanche DuBois, a schoolteacher from Mississippi, arrives in New Orleans and takes a streetcar named “Desire“ to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski, live barely above squalor. Blanche’s affectations of refinement set her immediately at odds with blue-collar Stanley, who is further incensed when he learns his wife’s aristocratic inheritance—the family estate—has been forfeited to creditors. As Stanley disdains and demeans Blanche, she fights back in the only way she knows: with her genteel femininity. The Kowalskis’ Elysian Fields apartment becomes a pressure cooker of sensuality and class tensions, until ultimately erupting in some of the most iconic dramatic moments seen on the modern stage.

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play.

Do you need some household items, but don’t want to pay full price for them? Come check out the Discovery Center Fundraising Yard Sale the last weekend of October! On Friday, October 24, and Saturday, the 25th, we will have odds and ends for sale in Discovery Park—at the corner of South 8th and Poplar Streets. Featured items include a Kirby vacuum cleaner, refrigerator dolly, household paint kit, walker, heater, a few furniture items, an aviary, small appliances, bedding and other odds and ends. We also have books, gift items and apparel in our Truth Bookstore. Items are priced to sell, and proceeds benefit The Discovery Center Museum. The gate opens at 8:00 am, and we will close at 6:00 pm.

In one of the most renowned plays of the American theater, Blanche DuBois, a schoolteacher from Mississippi, arrives in New Orleans and takes a streetcar named “Desire“ to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski, live barely above squalor. Blanche’s affectations of refinement set her immediately at odds with blue-collar Stanley, who is further incensed when he learns his wife’s aristocratic inheritance—the family estate—has been forfeited to creditors. As Stanley disdains and demeans Blanche, she fights back in the only way she knows: with her genteel femininity. The Kowalskis’ Elysian Fields apartment becomes a pressure cooker of sensuality and class tensions, until ultimately erupting in some of the most iconic dramatic moments seen on the modern stage.

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play.

In one of the most renowned plays of the American theater, Blanche DuBois, a schoolteacher from Mississippi, arrives in New Orleans and takes a streetcar named “Desire“ to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski, live barely above squalor. Blanche’s affectations of refinement set her immediately at odds with blue-collar Stanley, who is further incensed when he learns his wife’s aristocratic inheritance—the family estate—has been forfeited to creditors. As Stanley disdains and demeans Blanche, she fights back in the only way she knows: with her genteel femininity. The Kowalskis’ Elysian Fields apartment becomes a pressure cooker of sensuality and class tensions, until ultimately erupting in some of the most iconic dramatic moments seen on the modern stage.

Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play.