TDBS and Wells meet with pastors, providers and advocates about a homeless day center
posted: April 4, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: day center, homeless news
Jordan Green writes about yesterday’s homeless day center meeting, led by City Council member Dianne Bellamy-Small, with homeless service providers, pastors, advocates and others.
Here’s a quote from Bellamy-Small City Council member Goldie Wells:
“To say that we have no place that people can go to, and be safe, is an indictment against our city,” Wells said. “To hear that churches that follow Jesus are not welcoming their brethren — that’s a problem. It’s not fair for us to go to our sealed houses, and there are a thousand people who don’t have a place to go, day or night…. We need to pull our faith-based community together maybe like we did for the gangs. Those preachers have an obligation not only to their people but to the Lord. If ‘When I was hungry and you didn’t feed me, I was naked and you didn’t clothe me,’ the Lord’s not going to look very favorably on Greensboro or us as individuals.”
» Read all of Greensboro pastors and agencies meet to discuss day center initiative at The YES! Weekly Blog
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