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..>>Food Not Bombs: Modeling community, a meal at a time
posted: June 22, 2008 | category: community
tags: Food Not Bombs, free meals, Glenwood
Tina Firesheets’ excellent article about Greensboro’s Food Not Bombs is called “Community Cuisine,” and I love the title! My church has a weekly “community dinner” for the homeless (because it’s for the “community”), but Food Not Bombs really models what it means to build community with their three times weekly dinners and free-food distribution […]
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