Sights and sounds from the 2009 Feast of Caring, including a prayer from the rabbi of Temple Emanuel.
“Let us realize that as long as there are poor in our community, as long as there are poor, then there truly is a lack of justice.”
– Rabbi Fred Guttman
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First Presbyterian Church
617 North Elm Street
Downtown Greensboro
Entrance to Clinic is on Greene Street, between Fisher Park Circle and Fisher Avenue. The GTA Route 3 bus stops at the intersection of Elm Street and Fisher Ave.
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Dropped off food for two homeless friends flying signs. Tough times for them. Addiction, hunger, violence, poverty. A day in the life.
Greensboro’s homeless day center, Interactive Resource Center, is sponsoring a team in the Greensboro CROP Hunger Walk.
What is a CROP Hunger Walk? Neighbors walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise awareness and funds for international relief and development, as well as local hunger-fighting.
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RT @phxmission: Sobering. US Hunger, Poverty & Homeless Facts: Growing Poverty and Despair in America http://bit.ly/Cspfx
From Partners Ending Homelessness:
Partners Ending Homelessness will sponsor the 1st Annual Furnish a Dream Furniture Drive in partnership with the Agents of Grace, Old Dominion Freight Company, Home to Home, and Barnabas Network. The two day event will kick-off on Saturday, August 22, 2009 in the parking lot of 200 Steele located at the Corner of E. Kivett Dr. and N. Centennial St. in High Point. The following Saturday, August 29th the furniture drive will be held in conjunction with Agents of Grace’s day of service which will be held at Grimsley High School located at 801 Westover Terrace in Greensboro.
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This makes me mad:
“The Charlotte Housing Authority board enacted a new rule Wednesday that allows the agency to evict public housing residents if their children skip school too often.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System, which worked with the housing authority on the new policy, hopes it will improve attendance. Housing officials hope it will help families become more self-reliant…
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A local blogger who likes to send me links to often unflattering articles about homeless or poor people emailed me this today:
Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen .
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photo credit: Paul Morigi, Getty Images; inset photo: Reuters
Michelle Obama is catching flak for wearing a pair of $540 designer French sneakers to volunteer at a food bank. My reaction? Who cares? Isn’t it a little… judgey, maybe??… to cast aspersions on the First Lady for what she chooses to put on her feet while she serves others? I would never make a judgment on the homeless or poor people that I meet or minister to because of the shoes they’re wearing. Why should I care what a fellow servant wears on hers?
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A Night of Remembrance commemorating
National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
walk of remembrance starting at Shiloh Baptist Church with Pastor Willis Johnson
service of remembrance at Grace Community Church with Marshall Benbow
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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In two video interviews about Hope Builders homeless camps, since destroyed by the City of Des Moines, a homeless advocate says:
“Most of the religious community operates out of the business model…”
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I met a teenager today who matter of factly told me that she didn’t have Christmas last year and probably won’t this year either, because of family problems — issues beyond her control. As we talked a little more, I heard both sadness and anger creep into her voice, but she did a good job controlling it. That made me sad. Before I left, I told her that I was going to pray for her family, and for God to bring her a Christmas.
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