Outreach


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After City Council, April 21 2009; homeless and non-homeless friends spoke about homeless issues, funding, etc. Audrie and I made a lot of trips up and down the stairs into the basement at Grace today -- and packed out the van for StreetWatch this week! Next time, we for sure need men to do the MANual labor part. ;) Ouch... Boots and a sleeping bag for John
Massey Creek Farms just delivered 360 fresh, local eggs for FNB! Mark Horvath, giving out socks to our homeless friends.
At HIVE w/students from the Volunteer Ctr Service Learning Camp At HIVE w/students from the Volunteer Ctr Service Learning Camp At HIVE w/students from the Volunteer Ctr Service Learning Camp
At HIVE w/students from the Volunteer Ctr Service Learning Camp Gracie wore a Hello Kitty t-shirt for our visit to see our friends at their camp. :) When my youngest (Will) was little, he played chess with some of our homeless friends at Cup 'A Joe while I did street outreach on Tate Street. (Most of those friends are housed now!) Audrie's youngest (Gracie) goes out and visits homeless camps with her parents, and also helps feed our friends. Teach your children young: LOVE = ACTION. My grandmomma first taught me, and then my momma. Pass it on... mural at the homeless day center on Bessemer Avenue
20 lbs of yummy. i wish you could smell it!! this is gonna make some gooooood turkey noodle soup for our homeless and hungry friends. :)
Food Not Bombs dinner at the library, 04/27/2009
Cujo and Molly have been traveling across the country with Vomit and Luna. They're enjoying being inside and chillin' at Kim's house with all her dogs, while Vomit and Luna relax for a while. Cujo can drink an amazing amount of water. Molly likes the food. :) This is me and Audrie's friend Stickman. He makes walking sticks. Hence, the nickname. He also opens car doors for ladies. Gentlemanly. Nice. ;)
Audrie and I sit where the benches used to be. Removing the benches is one way to discourage panhandlers, I guess. ;) What is missing from Panhandler's Park? (downtown at McGee and Elm)
NightWatch ran out of blankets on the first stop on Friday night, 04/03/2009, the first street outreach after winter shelters closed. Melissa and I went to Grace and got blankets, socks and coats from our StreetWatch supplies, loaded them up and went back to meet the NightWatch truck and team. It was a busy night. Fewer stops than usual, but lots of homeless people! The truck is loaded and ready for NightWatch street outreach! Blankets, Bibles, soup, bread, hygiene kits, snack bags, sports drinks, water and more! Andre pours the soup into the cambros for NightWatch. Audrie and I made the soup. Andre made it better!
Gracie, Paul, Audrie and Michele make snack bags to give to our homeless friends on NightWatch. stormy, a homeless advocate who does street outreach, holds hands with a homeless woman she met on nightwatch, as the woman talks to mayor yvonne johnson about the looming april 1st deadline for the closing of the winter emergency shelters, when she will be back on the street. stormy met her at the camp where she lived outside near downtown greensboro, before moving into the women's winter shelter at grace community church. Bought shoes, boots, jewelry and clothes; got stuff for me, my daughter Stephanie, my niece Sydney, my nephew Ethan, and Stephanie's friend Sophia's new baby girl. Bags and bags of stuff! Spent just $57 total! Unbelievable!! You MUST go shop at Joseph's Gear. This store funds Joseph's House, which serves homeless young adults in Guilford County. The store is at 709 E. Market St., at the corner of Market and Murrow. Joseph's House web site is here: http://josephshouse.net/
why is the block empty? because of the talking surveillance camera on that pole back there. see the little yellow sign? why are my fists clinched? because it's cold and windy out there!! (cold weather's never stopped people from congregating on the block before. that talking camera sure has moved them along, though.) talking surveillance camera at Lee and Eugene by the homeless shelter; the yellow sign says: "THIS AREA UNDER ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE;" it's a tiny sign, high up on a pole, hard to read, but the orwellian voice gets your attention talking surveillance camera on the block at Lee and Eugene by the homeless shelter
found out about this homeless camp from gpd this week; visited today (3/20/2009) The building donated for the new day center downtown. The new day center building has more than 25,000 sq. ft. of space.
Friendly Avenue bridge, near Cedar. Homeless camp visit, 2/15/09. No one was home. The property owner wants the camp gone. Homeless camp visit, 02/15/2009. In upper left corner, you can see their blue and grey tents. Took pic far off because they were in the camp. Brought blankets, food, clothing,Bibles. Really cool guys. Enjoyed our visit.
RR bridge by Freeman Mill homeless camps Philip, in front of the Salvation Army disaster unit, aka "502" or "the truck," that we use for NightWatch street outreach to the homeless. Jeff, NightWatch leader, in the driver's seat of 502.
Me, on the truck, in my sweet NightWatch leader shirt. Jeff and Philip on the NightWatch truck. Beds where our friends sleep under the Freeman Mill bridge.
Night train. Parked by the tracks near the Freeman Mill bridge. Food Not Bombs dinner in the back of my truck The Food Not Bombs buffet. Yum!!
Melissa and me Melissa aka Bird Me and James, sitting across the street from the block, on a sunny afternoon
Turkey noodle soup. Yum! Made turkey noodle soup for the guys in the winter shelter program at the HIVE and ate a bowl with them. Some of them are on bowl #3 or #4. I guess it's good! Making hygiene kits for NightWatch.
Ron Wrenn, a homeless man who died after being hit by a car on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009. Remembering the life of our homeless friend, Ron Wrenn. Community Dinner at Grace Community Dinner, 02/04/2009. Health Dept does HIV/syphilis testing at Food Not Bombs dinner
Audrie serves soup to our homeless and hungry friends at the downtown library, Friday night, 12/12/2008. Checking out donations for the homeless from Bestway Audrie sorts donations from Bestway
Cooking in the Food Not Bombs kitchen at the HIVE Dance studio? Disco? Nope. It's the inside of the new IRC homeless day center in downtown Greensboro. Pre-redo, that is. My friend Derek works at the IRC's temp location now. Tim & Matt, serving our friends!!
   
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Description: feeding and serving the hungry and homeless
Location: Greensboro NC

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