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!
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A prayer. And a promise.
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.
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Images from Peace With Every Step, October 21, 2007. Audio: “War,” by Edwin Starr. Related post is here.
These photos are also in my image gallery, here.
>> News & Record coverage. >> Fox8 coverage, with video.
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Responding to the repercussions of a new City loitering ordinance, my friend Suzanne at “Life in the G” questions the people-problem-shifting philosophy of “move on” and asks:
“Who am I to pray for the hurt and the displaced in this world to MOVE ON?”
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Funny stuff from Dan “Southpaw” Smith.
“Ladies, ladies, do you want to save people from Hades?” LOL. 
image credit: borazivkovic
I went to the annual ConvergeSouth Barbecue at David and Jinni Hoggard’s on Friday night. It was great to see my blogging friends.
At the end of the evening, Hogg asked if I wanted to take the rest of the food (there was lots left!) to feed some of our homeless friends. Since it was Friday night, the NightWatch team was already out, so I called and they sent the van by to pick up the food. I’ve since heard from the night’s team leader that the barbecue was a big hit with our friends and much appreciated!
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