HOUSE NEWS: Celebrate our anniversary with us on Sunday!

Dear friends,
Consider this your personal invitation to the GCW’s anniversary celebration this weekend! On Sunday, October 5, from 1-4pm, we’ll gather–old and new folks, former and current community members, volunteers, guests, visitors, EVERYONE–to celebrate our 4th year in Jubilee House and our 8th year since we started way back in 2000. Come to hear stories [...]

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SCRIPTURE STUDY: A Church pre-occupied with neither heaven nor politics

I am convinced in reading the opening passages of the Acts of the Apostles that it is Luke’s primary purpose to make sure the early church is oriented to that which is at the heart of the proclamation and passion of Jesus. The central message of Acts 1:1-14 resonates not only in the time of [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: The struggle of indigenous communities and a big thank you!

Dear friends,
This week at the Roundtable, we are really fortunate to have one of our own, Tatiana Gumucio, share her experience living with and working among indigenous communities in Bolivia. Tatiana, a parishioner at Holy Faith Catholic Church and a grad student in anthropology at UF, has been a regular volunteer with the Breakfast Brigade [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: We need you! Yes, you!

Dear friends,
We are still in need of more volunteers to help out regularly with Dorothy’s Cafe.  We’re experimenting this fall by offering the cafe 8-9 times a month, instead of 3, and we’re doing it on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from noon to 6pm. It would be SO good to have 4-6 volunteers throughout the day; right [...]

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OPINION:Twenty Questions – Social Justice Quiz 2008

by Bill Quigley – Human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans
In its 2007 Annual Homeless Report to Congress, HUD reported that nearly one in four people in homeless shelters are children 17 or younger. Bill Quigley’s “Social Justice Quiz 2008″ challenges us to look through the eyes of those less fortunate [...]

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SCRIPTURE STUDY: The intersection of our story, our culture’s story and The Story

Last night, we had our first scripture study, focusing on the Acts of the Apostles, for the Fall semester. It is now a tradition that at our first session together, we don’t even crack open our bibles. Instead, we take the time to learn a little bit about each other, about the folks who will [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Sept. 8-14

Dear friends,
So, we’re off and running! Last week was our first week experimenting with the new schedule, and it was both busy and exciting. Between the Tuesday and Thursday cafes, we served about 175 meals; both Wednesday and Friday Breakfast Brigades came off without a hitch, sharing breakfast with about 150-180 folks between the two [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Sept. 1 – 6

Hi folks, 

 
Things got off to a nice start last week. The “New” Dorothy’s Cafe served lentil stew, deviled eggs, challah bread, muscadines, and iced tea to about 60 folks over the six hours we were serving – a nice, relaxed crowd that allowed for plenty of socializing and greeting old friends.  Friday’s Breakfast Brigade welcomed back some old regulars as well as some [...]

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