StreetWatch May 17-24, 2012: GPD, baseball, community garden, tent city, homeless bunny & more!
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8 die homeless in Greensboro in 2011
December 21st is National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Locally, AmeriCorps Partnership to End Homelessness sponsored the Greensboro Homeless Memorial Walk from the Interactive Resource Center on East Washington Street to Grace Community Church on West Lee Street, where a Memorial Service was held at 6:15pm. On the stage were a … > read more
Greenway progress leaves wood chips and memories at site of former homeless camps
I just received texts from a homeless friend who lives in a camp near the site of the next phase of Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway. A number of homeless camps in the path of the Greenway were cleared prior to construction. Homeless people have been living on the heavily wooded property … > read more
New Greensboro homeless day center nearing completion
The Interactive Resource Center — Greensboro’s homeless day center — has been operating in a temporary location at 3015 E. Bessemer Avenue since its initial opening in January 2009. On March 3, 2009, Partners Ending Homelessness and the City of Greensboro held a news conference to make a major announcenent … > 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
Bottle vs. rock = Slide vs. slam
Addiction develops much more rapidly with cocaine than alcohol, often within a few weeks or months, and especially when smoked as freebase (crack). Thus, the dynamics of cocaine addiction are different from those of alcoholism, including its impact on the individual and the family. Cocaine addiction can be likened to … > read more
A barn and a stable and no place to sleep
Yesterday, I got a call about a homeless man in Greensboro who was sleeping in a barn. There was no room at the shelters for him. And the owner of the barn wanted him gone. I had no answers for the caller. I prayed for God to make a way … > read more
Camp cleanup, homeless needs, Greenway vs. the homeless
On Saturday, June 27, 2009, my ministry partner, Audrie Keen and I, along with our friends Lavaughn and Lee, participated in an Americorps homeless camp cleanup. The camp we cleaned was one of several in an area that lies in the path of Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway. I recently learned, through … > read more
Another homeless fire?
From News-Record.com, 04/20/2009: No injuries were reported when a fire broke out in a trailer today. The fire was reported about 12:20 p.m. Monday in an empty mobile home at 1727 W. Lee St., about a block east of the Greensboro Coliseum. The cause of the fire is under investigation. … > read more
Dirty hands like Jesus
From an instant message conversation with my best friend and ministry partner, Audrie Keen, thinking about yesterday when we were at the Salvation Army store, loading the truck for NightWatch, street outreach to the homeless: Here’s a good moment: Yesterday when I left the Army, my hands were filthy. Like … > read more