Archive for the 'community' Category
Friday night dinner
posted: August 17, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness
tags: downtown, Food Not Bombs, free meals, Greensboro, homeless needs, hunger, police
Tim, Lowell and I spent Friday afternoon in the kitchen of the Salvation Army church cooking and preparing the evening meal. Tim and Lowell cook regularly for Food Not Bombs, and they are pros in the kitchen.
We cooked/prepared/baked: baked beans, baked yams, barbecued pork chops, chicken and pasta, pasta and vegetables, mixed green salad, cakes […]
Feeding the people: two down, one to go
posted: August 15, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness
tags: free meals, homeless needs, hunger
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the sky after shopping
Friday’s breakfast
after the rush
serving it up!
My friends Tim, Janet, Steve,Vicky, Travis, Deb, Justin, Brian, Jerry, Marshall and I (and the guys from the Grace small group — sorry, I can’t remember everyone’s names!) have received lots of help […]
Read More..>>Feeding homeless and hungry friends this week: What we still need
posted: August 13, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: day center, free meals, homeless needs, hunger, you can help
A bunch of us are collaborating to feed homeless and hungry friends for breakfast tomorrow and Friday, and also dinner on Friday, since we found out that the Hospitality House is closed this week. We’re planning for 180-200 people at each meal. Some people have asked what we still need.
Need:
whole bananas and/or cut up […]
Read More..>>Yes, we have no bananas
posted: August 13, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: free meals, homeless needs, hunger, you can help
My friend Tim and I have spent the past couple of days getting things together to do breakfast tomorrow and breakfast and dinner on Friday for a lot of homeless and hungry people. (We’re not sure how many, but we’re preparing for 180-200 people at each of the three meals, just in case.) In the […]
Read More..>>Bloggers and readers: I need your help, please
posted: August 11, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: free meals, homeless news, hunger, you can help
Update #3: Breakfast will be served on the “front deck” at Grace Community Church at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday and Friday (8/14 and 8/15) and dinner will be served by the picnic benches at the downtown library on Friday (8/15) at 6:00 p.m. To my friends on the street who read this blog (and to […]
Read More..>>Much drama: How sidewalk seating affects public safety downtown
posted: August 8, 2008 | category: community
tags: downtown, Greensboro, news, police, policy
“Much” drama surrounds GPD’s enforcement of the City’s sidewalk cafe ordinance (Sec. 26-244.) Read the back story at the YES! Weekly blog here.
From a comment thread on at Ed’s:
“I’m still trying to understand the connection between cafe seating for paying customers, and latenight loitering.” — Ed Cone
and
“Only a bureaucrat at a nonprofit who gets […]
We should just start saving the world
posted: August 7, 2008 | category: community
tags: homeless needs, politics
Val sent me a link to this awesome post
“…instead of sitting around figuring out the best way to save the world, we should just start saving the world. It’s too late for more think tanks. We need do tanks. Thirsty people need water. Hungry people need food. It’s not any more complicated unless we make […]
My church struggles with how to love our homeless neighbors
posted: August 4, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness
tags: alcohol, crack cocaine, homeless news, housing, policy
Blankets, clothing and other items left out in the open by homeless people who sleep outside at Grace Community Church are stacked beside the dumpster a few days before it’s scheduled to be emptied, giving them a chance to retrieve their things.
My church, Grace Community on West Lee Street, is struggling with how to answer […]
Picture this: DayWatch at the Central library and Coliseum Inn
posted: August 4, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness
tags: downtown, Greensboro, homeless news, hunger, photos
This past Saturday, Deb and I did DayWatch (street outreach to the homeless and others) at the downtown library and Coliseum Inn, with members of her church, Mosaic. Please click on the photos below for descriptions and details about what we did, who we served, and more.
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GPD on Segways: Losing cool points
posted: July 23, 2008 | category: community
tags: news, police
When I found out from friends at GPD that developer Roy Caroll was donating two Segways to the CCRT (downtown bike cops), I had to laugh. And I promised to make fun of them when they got their Segways. Actually, I didn’t wait. I went ahead and teased them about it right then. […]
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