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StreetWatch May 17-24, 2012: GPD, baseball, community garden, tent city, homeless bunny & more!

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Why “fat and hungry” is not a contradiction

A local blogger posted this today: “I noted with interest last week’s report that Winston-Salem has ‘the worst rate of family hunger of any metropolitan area in the nation.’ Yet Twin City kids are fat, a problem that requires Mayor Allen Joines’ urgent attention. I’m having trouble reconciling this problem.” … > read more

First Thursday dinners at Greensboro Christian Church

Greensboro Christian Church’s First Thursday dinners for the homeless and hungry start back up on Thursday, September 1st. Pick-up for those who need a ride will be at 5:30pm at the downtown library. The dinner is at 6pm at the church, at 3232 Yanceyville Street. The free dinners are held … > read more

Grace United Methodist begins Tuesday breakfast

Grace United Methodist Church at 438 West Friendly Avenue in downtownÂ Greensboro has begun a new breakfast ministry to the hungry and homeless: “Arise at Grace.” Breakfast will be served on Tuesday mornings from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. Breakfast guests: Please use the entrance on Friendly Avenue. There will be … > read more

Greensboro Burrito Bikers: One year of feeding the homeless

On a Sunday morning in late October 2009, Hayes Holderness headed out on his bicycle with a backpack full of hot egg, sausage, cheese, and hash brown burritos, to provide breakfast to residents of a homeless tent city, and thus, Greensboro Burrito Bikers was born. Soon, other riders joined him, … > read more

Study: Recession means more hungry kids, but less summer school food programs

“Many summer food programs have been slashed during the recession leaving low-income children with fewer options, a report by the Food Research and Action Center said Tuesday.The budget cuts reduced participation in summer school food programs across the nation over the past years, the anti-hunger group said.This drop in participation … > read more

When there’s nowhere to go

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: My ministry partner, Audrie Keen, and I provide a street outreach to the homeless in Greensboro, … > read more

Pearls and Pigs

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: …Sometimes Christians, in their eagerness to be compassionate and Christ-like, fail to recognize that God put limitations on this … > read more

Seen on the street

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 … > read more

Myrtle Beach restricts church groups from feeding homeless people in public parks

The Myrtle Beach City Council has placed serious restrictions on group that feed the homeless in city (public) parks.Â Church groups are currently feeding the homeless and hungry in obedience to their faith — weekly in one park and monthly in another.Â A new ordinance will require them to obtain … > read more