24,000 Meals Packed for Haiti
Over a hundred students filled the main commons and lobby of Lynch Hall, Wednesday August 25 and packed over 12,000 meals for children and families in Haiti. Stop Hunger Now is a Raleigh based international food relief agency. The packaged protein & rice meals will be shipped to Haiti and other third-world nations in need. Once on the ground the food goes to well established school feeding programs. Parents send their children to these schools because they offer the children lunch and a...
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This is a great story, front page Charlotte Observer, August 20, 2010: Link to the Article If you’re 29, and fresh out of graduate school, like Will Dalen Rice, $10,000 is a tidy sum. It’d make a nice down payment on a new car, or house. Or pay off a portion of college loans, which Rice managed to accumulate after four years of undergraduate and two years of graduate school at UNC Charlotte, where he recently finished a master’s degree in Earth Sciences. Ten thousand dollars was his...
Read MoreEco-Stewards Program
Check out the Presbyterian Church’s Eco-Stewards program as they delve into the complex environmental issues surrounding mountains, coal, land use, and sustainability in beautiful southern West Virginia. College students in this program consider how these issues invite us to deepen our relationship with God and with each other — to live more simply, to consume less, and to join in a dynamic Christian movement to care for the earth. Even if you don’t go through the program,...
Read MoreYoung Adult Volunteer Program
Every Tuesday at worship we highlight a special ministry. Our special emphasis on Tuesday March 23 will be the Presbyterian Church’s Young Adult Volunteer Program. We welcome Emily Piper who is serving the Tucson Community Food Bank in Arizona through the YAV Program. The Young Adult Volunteer Program offers exciting opportunities in Christian service and learning for young adults (19 to 30 years of age.) The Young Adult Volunteer Program has 16 sites in the United States and abroad, and...
Read MoreSt. Benedict's Rule
St. Benedict was a Middle Ages monk famous for especially his “Rule.” Today’s monastic communities and many from the past either were Benedictine or modeled in that image. Today we might call these “intentional Christian communities,” a phrase popularized by New Day in Dallas and a phrase liked by many including Shane Claiborne and the Simple Way. All of these communities live by some type of Rule. Benedict wrote his Rule for the monks at Monte Cassino in the sixth...
Read MoreBP Oil Spill
Have you ever spilled anything? Some milk? Some gosspip? Something that was expensive and broke? Did you cry? Are you crying about the gulf coast? Or, just blaming? CNN, The Today Show, Glen Beck, MTV, even the President have blamed BP. Do we as Christians join them? Is it a Christian response to blame BP? Yes, it is their spill. They are responsible so to speak. But why? Last check, most college students have a car. As do their parents. Cars, seemingly everywhere in North America...
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