Reverend Christian King, the founder and Director of the PINK HOUSE often refers to a certain event as her ‘baptism’ – an immersion and awareness of the reading challenges that confronted the youth of her bible study class. Reading for Rev. King was as natural as breathing, so with her natural love and concern for others she could not allow herself to stand by doing nothing to address the situation. With brave determination and the meager personal funds of hers and her husband Kelvin's, she took on the daunting challenge that has resulted in a learning center/neighborhood resource Center dedicated to teaching the fundamentals of reading and reading comprehension with an emphasis on service learning and leadership development. From this very ‘baptism’ in 1997,  The P.I.N.K. H.O.U.S.E., which stands for People Innovating New Kinships thru Helping Others Uplift Services and Education, was born. 

Rev. King and her husband began the Herculean task of renovating a dilapidated building in the neighborhood. When funds and faith ran low, King had to remind herself of  those kids who faced almost insurmountable odds against success who's, most often, single parents often holding down two jobs and leaving aging grandparents to provide after school care to keep her going.