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Greensboro Urban Ministry Presents
When Helping HurtsDATE: September 14
TIME: 12:30-2:00 PM
LOCATION: Weaver House Classroom
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The Rev. Frank Dew, chaplain at Greensboro Urban Ministry, will facilitate a discussion of the book “When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor… and Ourselves.”
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Hello:
My name is David. I am 69 years old ( I have a hip replacement) and I can’t do very much! I attend Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif. I hope you will read this e-mail. I thought it might be of some interest to you. It shows what the Lord can do if we listen to him and then follow what he has to say!
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According to a report released today, Greensboro’s seven winter emergency shelters collectively hosted 205 people between 12/01/2009 and 03/31/2010.
Some demographics about those who stayed in Greensboro’s winter homeless shelters this year:
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… What if we, as the Church, functioned in ways that the early church did? What if we did not have such segregation within the very Body of Christ? What is we truly took the Bible seriously and committed ourselves to passages like Acts 2 and Isaiah 58 which teach us that we should have all things in common, that no one among us should have want for anything, that we please God and He reveals Himself to us when we feed those who are hungry, clothe those who lack, and bring people into our homes?
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Leonard Pitts, Jr.
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness …” — Matthew 5:6
Ultimately, I suppose, what we’re talking about is a clash between the sweet by and by and the fierce urgency of now.
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Learning the science behind addiction frees us from judging, condemning and shaming the alcoholics and addicts in our lives.
Trusting the unchanging Word of God, living daily by the power of His Holy Spirit and keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ comforts us, strengthens us and allows us to detach with love and live in peace even in the midst of heartbreak and chaos in our lives.
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When I invite friends over for dinner, I neither begin nor end the meal with a sermon, testimony, song or an invitation to “get saved.” Usually, someone prays and thanks God for the food. But a meal with friends is a meal with friends, not a religious service.
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Cara MICHELE Forrest
CARA MICHELE FORREST
I’m a Jesus follower, proud momma of three and advocate for the homeless.
I do street outreach to the homeless with the StreetWatch team. We help homeless and hungry people get what they need. (Why do I do it? Read this…)
I wrote about the guys on the block (and more) for the News & Record: “When there’s nowhere to go,” by Michele Forrest; published Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. It’s online here, and reposted below:
On the block. Image credit: Michele Forrest / ChosenFast.com
My ministry partner, Audrie Keen, and I provide a street outreach to the homeless in Greensboro, and we’ve made a lot of friends along the way. We eat together, go to church together and have cookouts. Sometimes our homeless friends stay with us. We visit formerly homeless friends in their homes.
When we say “homeless friends,” we really mean friends.
Two Friday mornings ago, we visited “The Block” at Lee and South Eugene streets. It had been 11 days since my last visit, when we’d talked about the artistic bench installed, then removed, from along the new stretch of the Downtown Greenway in that area. Neighbors said the bench attracted drug addicts and prostitutes.
The guys on The Block dismissed that notion. One said: “The problem is not as serious as they say it is on the news. And the bench has nothing to do with it.”
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Michele: Watching a train roll past a homeless friend's camp.
WHY CARE?
“Why do you do what you do?”
I follow Jesus, and He says to care for the poor, homeless and hungry.
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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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.
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