Christine W. Avery Learning Center: A Family Dedicated to Serving the Community

A Family Dedicated to Service

And if you're familiar with this invaluable nonprofit early learning center serving children and families since the 50's out of its Hill Street Baptist Church home, that won't come as a surprise. What began as a daycare facility offered through the church under her grandmother's care hasn't wavered in meeting low-income families through the years.

As they shifted to keep their doors open serving their community, Morton also managed to find time to volunteer in support of fellow nonprofits efforts on her lunch break and in the evening hours. When asked if she managed to sleep in 2020, she laughs and says, "Well, we're a family dedicated to service." And those sentiments are certainly true. Morton is the daughter of CWA's Executive Director CiCi Weston, warmly known as Mrs. CiCi around the center.

Feeding Into Community...

After returning  home in 2019 to support her mother, Morton began managing the center just before the COVID pandemic began. She returned to school for childcare courses that would further her education and earn her a licensure in childcare. And somehow in between all of her work, she volunteered, supporting our School Supply Drive meeting students and families with the supplies they need to return to school, helping pack and sort food for the community through MANNA Foodbank and at the Community Engagement Market at Isaac Dickson Elementary just beside the center, writing notes of care for Bounty & Soul to place in their market boxes, and supporting Girls on the Run of Western North Carolina.