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I’m not into politics and campaigning, but…

About a month ago, I went to a fish fry at Ben Holder’s house. Ben is running for Greensboro City Council in District 1. I didn’t go for the politics, or for the fish. I mostly just wanted to see Cameron and Graham — Ben’s kids. I love them and I hadn’t seen them in a while. But when I got there, I got a surprise: Ben had met a homeless guy I know, David, who was flying a sign in Glenwood, and Ben had invited him to come and eat.

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Glenwood Dance Ministry, outreach to inner-city girls in Greensboro, needs seamstress to donate services; call Suzanne 336.455.9345

Tonight’s yummy dinner from Food Not Bombs:

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Serving at 6:00 p.m. at the downtown public library.  Garden salad, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, bread, and more.  Donated food, cooked by volunteers, served free!

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Need somebody to donate a dunking booth May 16th; Glenwood Multicultural Festival; proceeds from booth go to the HIVE; need cops to dunk

While Audrie, Marsha and I began cleaning and reorganizing the outreach storage space in the basement of Grace Community Church this past Saturday, some of our friends headed out to invite our Glenwood neighbors to Grace’s annual Community Christmas Banquet.  Our outreach director, Marshall Benbow, writes on his blog:

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From Liz Seymour:

Tim, Food Not Bombs volunteer extraordinaire, has been fielding phone calls all morning from generous folks who have responded to a notice in today’s News & Record — offers of food, volunteers and money. We’ll be at the HIVE starting at 9:00 tomorrow morning to begin cooking for our 6:00 Thanksgiving dinner. If you’re looking for a place to spend part or all of your Thanksgiving day, or if you know of someone who will be alone tomorrow and would like to have a place to be, we’ll be open and ready for company! The HIVE is at 1214 Grove Street, the corner of Grove and McCormick in the Glenwood neighborhood. We anticipate having plenty of food and lots of good cheer.

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Tonight was the Food Not Bombs dinner at the HIVE. A lot of the people who eat at the FNB dinners are homeless, and some are formerly homeless. Tonight, one of my formerly homeless friends came and brought her daughter. They went in the kitchen and got out the biggest serving bowls, then came back to the meeting space and pulled out huge bags of candy that they’d brought with them, and began filling the bowls. There are lots of Glenwood neighborhood kids at the HIVE and at the FNB dinners. You should have seen their eyes!  My friend and her daughter passed out candy to the kids and to all the adults. I got a Milky Way. It was so good.

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The HIVE will celebrate its first anniversary with a full day of events on Saturday, October 18, 2008. All events are at the HIVE at 1214 Grove Street, in Glenwood.

10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Really Really Free Market
in the parking lot of the HIVE; free clothes, free food, free household goods, free music free haircuts, and free whatever-you-and-your-friends-bring

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It’s Friday, so I must be at the HIVE. People are here for the free food distribution. I put on an apron (photo 1) and Tim (photo 3) and I chopped up fresh vegetables and cooked up some soup (photo 2.) The aroma lured folks into the kitchen and they were waiting to eat when we put it on the table (photo 4.) The verdict: “It’s a keeper.”

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From the News & Record, letters to the editor, 08/20/2008:

Urban Ministry serves homeless breakfast

Your article, “Discovering a need, blogger takes action” (A1, Aug. 14), contained incorrect information. It stated, “Hospitality House is the only place in the city that serves breakfast to the homeless.”

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“After 13 years and 50,000 meals Food Not Bombs is moving from St. Mary’s House near UNCG to its own brand-new kitchen at the Hive (1214 Grove St.) in the Glenwood neighborhood. Please join Food Not Bombs diners and volunteers past and present in one last meal at St. Mary’s House — a night of homecooked food and homegrown Food Not Bombs talent!”

This Friday night. Details on Facebook, here.

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The story of a man dying homeless and alone is tragic and sad.  It’s the kind of thing that might make you want to cry.  But after I’d been involved in urban ministry for a while, I learned that I couldn’t cry about every thing, because I’d never stop.  I’d just cry all the time, every day.  Because there’s something tragic and sad every day, usually more than one thing.  So I’ve learned to save it up, and when that last thing comes that just bursts the dam, then I cry about all of it at once, and I weep and I mourn, and I get it out, and then I don’t cry again for a long, long time.

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