CitySquare’s Food on the Move program combats childhood hunger by deploying mobile teams of AmeriCorps members into low-income apartment communities to provide youth with a nutritious lunch and 30-45 minutes of enrichment each day during the summer break from school. The youth we touch do not have access to traditional summer programming or nutritious meals during the day – so we bring it to them!
Members must be 17 or older with a HS Diploma or GED prior to program start (May 29), have reliable transportation, and a desire to work with youth. In return for 330 hours of service between May 29-Aug 17, members receive a $1,800 living allowance and $1,175 education award.
CitySquare's AmeriCorps team provides the perfect service opportunity for returning college students, graduating seniors, or someone who just wants to give back in a big way this summer!
How to refer someone to our program:
1. Simply direct your friends, peers, neighbors, family, etc to the CitySquare website at www.CitySquare.org/BecomeAMember.
2. Direct potential applicants to us via email at AmeriCorps@CitySquare.org.
How to help us spread the word:
1. Pass this on via email to friends, family, peers, church groups, civic groups, PTA, neighborhood associations, any group you have access to via email.
2. Invite us to speak at a relevant networking event, organizational meeting, college class, etc.
3. Word of mouth – share this opportunity with your friends and family over dinner, at church, and other social gatherings!
4. Post a Flyer – I’ve attached a pull-tab flyer you can print out and post at your site, church, or any other community boards you have access to.
5. Social Media – blog, tweet, or facebook us! – spread the word about this opportunity through your social networks!
All the information any applicant will need to know may be found at our website.
Please feel free to contact me with questions or ideas on how to get the word out about this great summer opportunity.
In service,
Jennifer A. Rajkumar
Associate Director
N2 Texas Corps
CitySquare
409 N. Haskell Ave.
Dallas, TX 75246
P: 214 828 1085 ext 122
F: 214 828 6392
jrajkumar@CitySquare.org
www.CitySquare.org
Any sharing of the gospel?
ReplyDeleteWhat would qualify as "good news to the poor"? That is, what would poor children consider good news? A Bible story or a good meal? An approach to prompt some sort of decision about an invitation from well-to-do outsiders? Or real practical hope for an entire family. Which approach would most likely create a desire for more contact, for friendship, for relationships that might lead to genuine redemption? I understand your question, Anon 4:51; but you don't understand the urban setting, poor people or what Jesus meant in Luke 4 and 7 relative to "good news to the poor." It's all about where you start and who is in charge.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that a Bible story and a good meal are an either-or choice
ReplyDeleteAnon 4:51 doesn't understand the urban setting, poor people, or Luke 4 & 7? Maybe you don't understand the Gospel.
ReplyDeleteRevelation Chapter 7:
9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and [about] the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, [be] unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Matthew 28:16-20
ReplyDeleteThe Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Anons: Read the story of Lazarus in Sunday's entry, April 8. The Rich Man is in Hades because he was unconcerned about Lazarus's physical well being in this world, not because he didn't hand Lazarus a tract on "how to be saved." If he had bothered to so much as acknowledge Lazarus, he might have learned that Lazarus already was (saved, that is).
ReplyDeleteNo. The rich man was in Hades because he did not have true faith.
ReplyDeleteYes, because faith without works is dead.
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