Casting Crowns is coming to the Greensboro Coliseum on Saturday, Nov. 17th, with John Waller and Leeland. (You can hear a clip from John Waller’s song, “The Blessing” in this NightWatch video.) Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 14th.
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This song really hits me hard. I see the faces of so many people I know who are running…
It’s a wake-up call for the Church. And for me.
LORD, have mercy. Give me eyes to see and ears to hear. Give me a heart like Yours. May it be so, LORD.
Lyrics below.
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I’ve found a great (and easy) way to transform my day. The first thing I do before my hit the floor is reach for the TV remote and press the “on” switch. My TV is set to turn on to channel 287. On Time Warner cable in Greensboro, that’s the Contemporary Christian channel on Music Choice.
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Greensboro’s police chief says that his department needs a dedicated gang unit to address the city’s increasing problems with gang activity and violence, including a recent string of homicides.
Chief Bellamy tells me that it would cost about $314,000 annually to fund a gang unit. That would pay for a supervisor, a corporal and five detectives.
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Via email, and by permission, from a homeless friend and reader. Email subject is “Gang Experiences:” Email has been edited slightly to maintain anonymity:
I have had no real run-ins with a gang unless you want to count that shooting episode from Friday night! [Editor's note: Several young men in a car drove by and shot at him with what he assumes was a BB gun as he was standing on a sidewalk near downtown. One pellet hit his lower leg but he was wearing work boots and was uninjured.]
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This video shows the NightWatch team on the streets of Greensboro. Created with Ron Londen’s photos (and a few of mine) and a clip from John Waller’s “The Blessing.”
Look who’s been visiting this page of my web site, from a Google search of “Greensboro NC homeless shelters.”
I guess that’s one way to do discharge planning.
[Sigh.]
Barnabas Furniture Ministry
2020 E. Market Street, Atlantis Warehouse Building
Greensboro, NC
336.370.4002
Serves: Families in need of assistance with furniture. Families (with an agency referral) may shop for free furniture on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9:00 a.m. and noon. Families must arrange their own transportation. In 2006, Barnabas served approximately 500 families between March and December.
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Lyrics below.
Jackie Dowd, who blogs about homelessness, at “the 13th juror,”:
“A body was found this morning on the I-4 embankment in downtown Orlando and I’m wondering if it’s somebody I know.”
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“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.” — Hebrew 11:13-16