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Original source: West Michigan Woman · April 11, 2018 · West Michigan

Five years after Ele’s Place opened in Grand Rapids, Cassie Westrate revisited the branch’s beginnings for West Michigan Woman. The first families had gathered in a church. By the 2018 anniversary, the local Healing Hearts Breakfast offered another place for West Michigan neighbors to learn about the groups.

Westrate connected the local anniversary to the family whose search for support had led to Ele’s Place’s founding in Lansing. In Grand Rapids, a church and local supporters had made it possible for families to find that kind of community closer to home.

The details of those first Thursday evenings appear in A Community Opens Its Doors to Ele’s Place in Grand Rapids.