From Habitat ReStore on Facebook:
The Habitat ReStore… a unique shopping experience! Located at 3826 High Point Road… 336-851-2929. New and used furniture, appliances, household items, and everything in-between – come shop with us! Open Monday through Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:30
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I’ve been studying what the Bible has to say about caring for the poor, the hungry, the homeless, and the hurting. I came across a really thought-provoking article on the internet:
From The New York Times:
A man was down, immobile at the edge of one of this city’s busiest intersections. No sirens sounded, no ambulance rushed to the scene. Dealing with the scourge that has consumed Alaska’s biggest city is often delegated to two men in a white van, the Community Service Patrol.
Read more on Deaths spur Anchorage to involuntarily commit homeless alcoholics…
First Presbyterian Church
617 North Elm Street
Downtown Greensboro
Entrance to Clinic is on Greene Street, between Fisher Park Circle and Fisher Avenue. The GTA Route 3 bus stops at the intersection of Elm Street and Fisher Ave.
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My ministry partner, Audrie Keen, describes what we saw while doing street outreach today:
Hurting, lonely people. People who have no voice, people who are hungry, people who need to be warm and have no sleeping bag when the temps drop. People who are heavily addicted to drugs and don’t have a place to get clean. People who have had their feelings hurt by well-meaning people. People who use homeless people. People who are veterans and are begging for money just to have a place to sleep at night. People who want to work and are not able to. That’s only part of what we saw.
Read more on Seen on the street…
On the block: Patrol cop says guys can talk to us but then have to go. They ask, why can we talk but not wait for work? Cop: Doing my job.
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From Jon Acuff:
Booty, God, Booty.
The archives don’t go back far enough, but I think that this is exactly the kind of idea that Billy Graham launched his ministry with when he was coming up. It makes sense too because Christians really like “Booty, God, Booty.”
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Comments on another site reminded me of these words from a homeless friend:
“Everybody’s always trying to give us job training. We just want a job.”
Good editorial in today’s News & Record: “Clearing out The Block”:
Greensboro police last week stepped up loitering enforcement and effectively cleared the place known as “The Block.” Just like that.
Read more on N&R Editorial: Clearing out The Block…
My ministry partner took this photo at the entrance to the Greenway, near the block. Image credit: Audrie Keen
Two days ago, I wrote about “the block” at Lee and Eugene Streets being empty. The block is a long-time gathering spot where folks, many of them homeless, are known to loiter and drink. A friend, who catches a bus just down the sidewalk, had contacted me to tell me that police had cleared everybody out.
Read more on Did it take a Greenway to clear the block?…
"The block" at Lee & Eugene Streest; image credit: News & Record
A friend contacted me yesterday to tell me that police were no longer allowing people to stand on “the block,” a well-known and long-time gathering spot at the corner of Lee and Eugene Streets near the homeless shelter, soup kitchen and health clinic. Traditionally, most of the people who stood out on the corner were homeless, and many of them spent their time on the block drinking. Today, I received reports from a number of sources with information about what may have led to the clearing of the block.
Read more on Alston meets with residents; Bellamy clears block; day center gets $275K…
“Whether they go is not an option; how and when they go is up to them.”
Audrie, Travis and I, headed into the Freeman Mill camps. Image credit: Mark Horvath
Read more on Greenway construction could raze homeless camps within a month…