Archive for March, 2009
Call to Action #23
BRING SOME SOCKS TO CTK ON HOLY THURSDAY Bring as many packaged pairs of socks as you’d like to the 9:00am morning prayer service or the 7:00pm liturgy on Holy Thursday, April 9th. Help immigrant families by bringing some hardy new socks, preferably white, on Holy Thursday. Leave them in one of the receptacles in [...]
Help Reduce Violence on the Northside
BECOME A NORTHSIDE ALLY. There are all kinds of ways — some simple and some more involved — that you can become a “Northside Ally” and add your little bit to helping reduce violence on the Northside. Here are some of the simple ways the Peace Foundation recommends: Stay Informed – Sign up to receive [...]
Watch This Video — It’s Fun and Educational!
And your kids will love it too! The MC of the video is a beaver (or some similar looking animal) who takes you through a lively couple of minutes about the “global community” — how we should know our neighbors around the world, learn to live with them, and find ways in our own lives [...]
Minnesota Housing Partnership Says “Give “Em a Shout” about Housing Legislation
The Minnesota Housing Partnership says we need to shout louder at our legislators because they’re making no promises about preserving the affordable housing budget although they claim to understand its economic benefits. Despite an impressive 72% return on state housing investment within five years, legislators who advocate for housing still feel desperately alone without support [...]
Call to Action #22
Come to the “Understanding Poverty” Program On March 26th and Learn How It Affects Us All Poverty is all around us, more so today than since the Great Depression. There are two types of poverty. (1) Situational poverty occurs when individuals/families experience some type of loss — as we’re seeing increasingly today with families [...]
Issues
Quick links
- Help stop the genocide horror in Darfur... dial 1-800-GENOCIDE (that's 43662433). You'll be connected to the genocide hotline in Washington."
- Play the "Rice Game" at www.freerice.com. For every correct word you choose, 20 grains of rice are sent to hungry people through the United Nations World Food Program.
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