Does your youth group need a quick and easy summer mission project?
posted: June 13, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: needs, NightWatch, you can help
NightWatch needs youth groups to put together hygiene kits and snack bags for our street outreach ministry to the homeless. All of our supplies are donated. We just need willing hands to make the bags. If you have a group of youth who can spend a few hours putting together […]
Read More..>>Tuesday, May 6th: Eat more, feed more
posted: May 5, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: events, hunger, needs, poverty, you can help
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The HIVE needs floor tile donations — please!
posted: April 8, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: Glenwood, hunger, needs, you can help
From Liz:
We are ready to begin work on the Food Not Bombs kitchen at the HIVE (1214 Grove Street, www.gsohive.org) and we still need some more vinyl composition tile (VCT). Any color, any quantity would help — if you’ve redone a bathroom or kitchen floor and have some partial boxes of tile […]
what every homeless person needs
posted: April 1, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: needs
from a friend:
somewhere to be
something to do
somebody who cares
to find or replace what was lost
I just want to be somebody’s friend
posted: March 26, 2008 | category: faith, homelessness
tags: needs
A commenter at Today at the Mission says:
“….but when the context has been shot to hell with addictions, abuse, self abuse, poverty, hopelessness, and then I’m coming along behind ‘the church’ mopping up a lot of bull s**t and lies and utter usury, I’m just wondering — where in the world do I start? The […]
Help wanted: Computers and internet access for formerly homeless people
posted: February 27, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: needs
Now that a number of our homeless friends are moving from chronic homelessness to permanent housing, I’ve discovered an interesting conundrum: Many of them are losing access to the internet. Most of them were previously sleeping and spending their days in the vicinity of downtown and UNCG, where they had access to computers at […]
Read More..>>Daydreaming about a day center…
posted: February 22, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: day center, needs
Today, Travis and I were daydreaming over IM about a day center for our homeless friends:
me: i’m hoping that if we get a day center, i can work there. not running it, but just cooking or cleaning or something. just being there
travis: You can only work at the day center if you […]
Don’t Almost Give
posted: February 8, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: needs, you can help
Need some help deciding about how to give, or who to give to? Email me. I’d be happy to tell you about the many, many ways that you can help homeless people in Greensboro. Or people who are: hungry, poor, mentally ill, addicted, abused, or just trying to start over.
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Homeless kids ask for blankets, not toys
posted: January 26, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: needs, NightWatch, stories
For the past couple of weeks, the NightWatch team has been making a stop in the parking lot of a local hotel that is “home” for many folks who might otherwise be on the street. And a lot of them are back outside when their money — or someone else’s generosity — runs out. […]
Read More..>>The Housing Support Team and The Faith Community
posted: December 23, 2007 | category: faith, homelessness
tags: housing, needs
The Housing Support Team is moving chronically homeless people from the streets of Guilford County in permanent supportive housing. What can a church group do for the clients served by the Housing Support Team? View and print this flyer to learn more.
