Homelessness and the Front Porch

Mik writes:

I would like to see a ongoing discussion of the impact to us and on us as the result of meeting and attempting to help the homeless that we see each day. The future does not look good for this social dilemma.

FOR EXAMPLE: It seems to me many folks want to work for $$$. How might we help them and ourselves 'assuming' we had a few dollars allocated weekly to give them to help out with cleaning and maintenance? We need on-going maintenance and trying out different folks, in gradually increasing their responsibilities, based on proven performance, may be mutually helpful to us both. Certainly not a cure for homelessness in our time, it is however more biblical and meets an immediate need. I will give the first $25 for a small fund for this. What wage would we pay people and how would it be set up? I would also be willing to work with you Christina to develop this and oversee it. Comments/ Suggestions folks?

The Core Journal Re-Launch

Christina, Mik, John & Sondra,

This post will serve as the re-launch of The Core Journal, which for awhile was the online communication hub of The Core's leadership.

How this actually gets used will be worked out as we go along. But the main idea is to get a lot of discussions happening throughout the month, so that when we get together for meetings on first Tuesdays, they don't have to go on and on.

I will probably be the one doing most of the posting, but I want to encourage each of you to do so as you think of something that needs to be discussed among the leadership. When a post is made, each leader will receive an e-mail linking us to that new post, and then we will be able to read it, and add comments.

Each first Tuesday, any discussions from the blog which have not been fairly well resolved in the comments, can be put on the agenda for our meeting.

We're so busy with the actual work of ministry that our schedules don't allow for a lot of meetings, so let me urge you to do you best to make this work... I think it will result in a much better team effort all around.

I am labeling this post with every category, so we can have them established from the beginning. It is very important, any time you write a post, to assign it a category so we can easily track conversations any each given topic.

That's it for now... have fun blogging!