4th Annual Multicultural Thanksgiving Dinner
Via email from Mark Sills, at FaithAction:
FaithAction International House
4th Annual Multicultural Thanksgiving Dinner
Monday, November 5, 2007
6:30 until 8:30 p.m.Everyone is welcome — No admission charge
Please join us Monday!Bring a dish of your favorite food to share. Kick off a month of giving thanks with our multicultural celebration of Thanksgiving with friends from all around the world.
Music will be provided by Noe Juarez and friends (Peruvian guitar) and by the combined gospel choirs of Mt. Pleasant Christian Church and St. Matthews United Methodist Church.
Feel free to bring friends, but please do bring food to share potluck style!
Sponsored by FaithAction International House. In the Mullins Life Center at First Presbyterian Church, directly across the street from the International House at 705 N. Greene Street.
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Hunters for the Hungry
My friends at Food Not Bombs in Greensboro serve vegetarian meals to the homeless three times each week. But a “hunters for the hungry” program in Georgia takes a decidely different approach to feeding the needy, filling soup-kitchen and food pantry freezers with deer, wild hog and squirrel. Reaction is mixed:
From the negative:
“It’s great to help others in need, but there are ways to help others that do not involve the recreational killing of animals,” says Andrew Page, director of the United States Humane Society’s hunting campaign in Washington, D.C.
To the positive:
Syble Dove, a resident of Bogart, Ga., who grew up eating venison, says the staple is part of the patchwork of charity that fills the gap between her food needs and a meager Social Security check. Last winter, Ms. Dove took home a five-pound “chub,” or package, of venison, which she dressed with barbecue sauce. She says it came at the right time, when even here in the most southern Appalachian foothills the nights get cold and the calories more precious. “It’s a wonderful blessing,” she says.
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Panhandling: Banning v. Enforcement
As the City of Miami considers a ban on panhandling, Jackie Dowd says, “[T]heir real problem seems to be that Miami’s laws against aggressive panhandling are not being enforced.” Greensboro has a fairly strict panhandling ordinance, but we also have an understaffed and overworked police department.
Did you that, according to Greensboro’s ordinance, panhandlers cannot:
- solicit outside a restaurant
- solicit after sunset
- solicit at a bus stop
- solicit a group of two or more people
- come within three feet of the person they’re soliciting, unless the person indicates they want to donate
- make a false or misleading statement while soliciting funds
- approach or speak to the person being solicited to in a way that would cause fear
- block or interfere with a person’s path
- speak in an unreasonably loud voice
- follow the person being solicited after the person has walked away
- use profane or abusive language or threatening words or gestures either before or after soliciting a person
And there’s more. Read the ordinance:
- Chapter 20 PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS, ETC._.pdf
- ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL.pdf
- ARTICLE II. PEDDLERS, TRANSIENT VENDORS, ETC..pdf
- ARTICLE IV. PERSONS BEGGING OR SOLICITING ALMS FOR PERSONAL G….pdf
You can keep up with future changes to the ordinance by checking here.
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Youth Event Responds to Grove Street Shooting
Via email, from Liz Seymour:
WHAT: Youth Poetry Dinner
WHERE: The HIVE, 1214 Grove Street, Greensboro (map)
WHEN: Sunday, October 28, 5:00-7:00 pmA dance ensemble from A&T, a step team made up of Dudley, Smith and Grimsley High School students, recently Dudley graduate hip-hop artist T-Shep, the Power House of Deliverance youth dance group, and a film showing from Urban Literature will headline an evening showcasing youth talent and positive alternatives to crime. The event is a response to the October 12 shooting at a convenience store on Grove Street. It will be held at the HIVE, a new community space directly across the street from the scene of the shooting.
“Tonight is about the youth in the neighborhood and in the community,” says Greensboro poet Clement Mallory, organizer of the event. “Our kids are dying out there and too often they don’t see any alternative to selling drugs and joining gangs. It’s important for them to see that they can make honest money by the use of their own talents, and that the community supports their talents.”
Update: Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. Poet/organizer Clement Mallory has spent the past week raising funds to pay the youth performers. (Clement performed his poetry at this recent FNB fundraiser. Listen to Clement perform his poetry here.)
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International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
See a video clip of Sarah’s story, here.
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church is Sunday, November 11, 2007.
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) is a global day of intercession for persecuted Christians worldwide. Its primary focus is the work of intercessory prayer and citizen action on behalf of persecuted communities of the Christian faith. We also encourage prayer for the souls of the oppressors, the nations that promote persecution, and those who ignore it.
We believe that prayer changes things. Exactly what happens is a mystery of faith. God invites us to present to Him our requests and to pray without ceasing. Persecuted Christians often plead for prayer to help them endure. The most we can do is the least we can do — pray.
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Let It Rain
A prayer. And a promise.
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A Place For Followers
From Today at the Mission:
…I’m looking for something else in a church. I’m looking for a place where a community of believers can grapple with scripture, can wrestle with what it means to be a Christ-follower in this sin-wracked, broken world of ours. I’m looking for a place where it’s all right to doubt, to worry, to fear, to celebrate, to dance and to sing - or not sing; where prayer is what we do, and not what we listen to someone else doing, where art is shared, where contemplation is possible, where worship is lived, where healing happens. I guess I’m really looking for a place where all the odd people like me who don’t fit anywhere else can be welcome and loved - which has to be said because wanting what I described…. well, that pretty much guarantees your dissatisfaction with The Program Driven Church ™; it pretty much guarantees you’ll be the odd one out Sunday morning.
Tonight a bunch of Christians in our city housed some men and women who were homeless. They were fed a hot, nutritious meal. Some will be given clothes, all will have a safe place to stay while they get their lives back on track. In our dining room tonight we fed about eighty people. I talked tonight about how when we share our fears and anxieties with Jesus we will still have our problems, but we’re no longer alone in the world. Some folks left with groceries, I gave a diabetic lady some large packages of artificial sweetener and she began giving some of this precious stash out to others she knew were diabetic. Another lady asked for a take-out container so she could take her piece of pie home to a friend who wasn’t well. They have so little, and what they do have they give away. Before supper tonight I prayed with the volunteers, one of whom prayed that the churches in our city would finally ‘get it’ as to their God-given responsibilities to the poor, to the orphan and widow, the leper, the lost. What if Jesus isn’t looking for leaders? What if he’s looking for followers?…
(Emphasis mine.)
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