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Create a Network of Churches- Justice for the Homeless #5

Posted by SteveKimes
/ September 3, 2014 / 2 Comments

Most of our churches are small and have little finances or resources. But groups of churches are able to do what an individual church cannot. A group of churches can establish a day shelter in areas of town where the homele ss population isn’t being served. A group of churches...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years
Offer Housing- Justice for the Homeless #4

Posted by SteveKimes
/ August 30, 2014 / 2 Comments

When Jesus spoke of helping the homeless, he didn’t talk about giving them a dollar, but inviting them into our home. Yes, giving a smile to a person begging, or some food is great, but when a person has no housing, what they really need is some security overnight so...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years
Provide Work- Justice for the Homeless #3

Posted by SteveKimes
/ August 26, 2014 / Leave a comment

Most of the homeless want to work. But getting a job without an address, or a shower is almost impossible. Going to an interview when the stress of everyday life makes one desperate and anxious and so an unlikely candidate for hiring. This is assuming that the person on the...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years
Write Letters- Justice for the Homeless #2

Posted by SteveKimes
/ August 19, 2014 / 1 Comment

This is the second post of a series about how to create justice in our communities for the homeless. This year our local cities have been harassing our homeless everywhere, every day, to move them on, or encouraging them to leave the city. This has been a policy ordered from...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years
Opportunities to Volunteer

Posted by Mary Anne Funk
/ August 17, 2014 / Leave a comment

Meet Dave: Currently homeless – Volunteers his time in the kitchen On this day, Dave prepared and cooked chicken for anyone who came that was hungry and for the other community members who were working. Whenever Dave is at Anawim, he cooks a full meal from the food that’s been...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Visual Journalism Blog, Years
Back to School Clothes

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ August 15, 2014 / Leave a comment

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years
Listen: Justice for the homeless #1

Posted by SteveKimes
/ August 1, 2014 / 2 Comments

This is second is a series of seven about bringing justice to our local street folks. The first is “Why Has God Forsaken Us?” We can never help create justice if we do not know those whom we seek justice for. You can go to a shelter, especially a day...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years

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“Why Has God Forsaken Us?”

Posted by SteveKimes
/ July 29, 2014 / 4 Comments

“What I want to know is, “ Mark asked pleadingly, “why has God forsaken us?” Mark and his wife Diane, a homeless couple, has just been forced to move from the camp that they had peacefully dwelt in for years. They have nowhere to go. A summer storm blew through...

Posted in 2014, August, Months, Newsletter, Years

Tagged justice
Nests For the Unwelcome – April 2013

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 1, 2013 / 1 Comment

Two years ago our church building received an unwelcome visitor: woodpeckers. They wouldn’t be unwelcome, except that they decided to no longer make holes in our trees, but in the building itself. So we had the building checked for bugs, did some prevention, filled the holes, and waited for next...

Posted in 2013, April, Newsletter
Long Live the Riff Raff – April 2013

Posted by Anawim Christian Community
/ April 1, 2013 / Leave a comment

All the homosexuals and the homeless and the drug dealers and sex workers and meth addicts and convicted child pornographers came to Jesus to listen to him. And the conservative evangelicals and the Bible scholars denounced him, “He is opening the door of the church to the wicked.” But Jesus...

Posted in 2013, April, Newsletter