1981
Highland Street begins Parents' Night Out. Members provide free care for handicapped children, giving their parents an evening out.
1981The Mother's Day Out program begins.
1982 The church begins a pre-school that includes kindergarten,.
1988
Highland Street joins a cooperative effort now called
HopeWorks to provide people with commodities. HopeWorks helps the chronically unemployed and homeless to find and keep jobs. Over 70% of the graduates fully support themselves.
1990
The first
Highland School Store provides school supplies to needy children in the community. This annual event has now served over 100,000 children with school supplies.
1989
Highland Street conducts the first
Memphis Workcamp, which has painted over 500 homes for the poor in Memphis.
1992
Area congregations establish
Memphis Urban Ministry. Through MUM, five inner city churches have been planted: the Downtown Church (1992); Raleigh Community Church of Christ (1998); Frayser Mission Church of Christ (1998); Iglesia de Cristo (1999). In addition, Highland has been a major player in the nationwide Urban Ministry Conference and has hosted the Conference twice.
1996
Highland Street helps to start a new congregation at Kirby Pines.
TodayA group of 900 now shares the same passion for ministry that began with 24 people in 1928. To learn more about Highland's current ministries, click
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Highland Street began in1928. World War I was over. The Great Depression was still to come. East Parkway was the east boundary of Memphis. Students from all over the state coming to Normal State Teachers College (the University of Memphis) disembarked at the Normal Station outside of Memphis. With the city growing eastward, members of the Union Avenue Church of Christ and others living in the Normal-Buntyn area joined together to form the Normal Church of Christ and eventually constructed a building just east of Highland on Southern. The congregation spent $8,000 on the new structure.
In 1950, the congregation built a building at the corner of Highland and Midland, and the name was changed to Highland Street Church of Christ. Additions and renovations to the Highland Street structure were made in 1958, 1967, 1980 and 1998. 
