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THURSDAY, December 18, 2008
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Waste Not,
Want Not
Gods Kitchen brings donated food
back to life to feed those in need
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE ^
A small East Winston church has started a new ministry
with a big mission - feeding local people who are hungry.
Wentz Memorial Congregation United Church of Christ's
God's Kingdom Kitchen opened its doors Saturday. The inno
vative kitchen
ministry takes
dented and other
unsell-able food
from locad gro
cery stores and
turns them into
scrumptious
meals.
"When
you're at home
and you open
the bag of pota
toes and got one
with some with
black spots in it,
you cut out the
black spots and
cook up the
potatoes." said
the Rev. Renee
Griffin, pastor
of the 50-mem
ber church on
jCarver School
Road. "The gro
cery store is
going to tnrow
that away, food
that's useable
but perhaps not
salable . . .that
we'll want to
use to help feed people who are hungry."
Griffin had the idea for the kitchen before the economy
went sore. She had heard of a group called Food Not Bombs,
which has a chapter in Greensboro, using unused food from
grocery stores to feed the needy. She said while her church
isn't necessarily adopting the politics of Food Not Bombs,
which is involved in peace and hunger activism, she did want
to use the organization's food gathering methods to make a dif
ference.
"Our one statement, if anything, is that we just don't
believe people should be or need to be hungry," said Griffin.
The Kingdom Kitchen was open for two hours Saturday
afternoon. Serving items such as chicken, baked sweet potatoes
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Photo by Todd Luck
Elizabeth Martin and Trevonia Brown
Gaither, far right, were among those who
served food.
A Real Senior Graduates
NC A4T Photo
North Carolina
A&T Stale
University
Chancellor Stanley
F. Battle congratu
lates 75-year-old
graduate Jean B.
Williams during
the school's Fall
Commencement
Ceremony on Dec.
13 at the
Greensboro
Coliseum.
Williams received
a BA. degree in
sociology. Also
among the gradu
ating class was
Alvin Walker,
another 75-year
old, who received a
B.A. degree in
visual arts.
Students act as Santa's helpers
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE
The Christmas spirit was alive and
well in Coliseum Park Plaza Fnday
afternoon. A blow up Santa Claus.
complete with reindeer, beckoned vol
unteers to the suite where the Santa's
Helper "workshop" was set up. Inside,
Christmas music filled the air, tem
pered by the chatter of happy voices as
student athletes and volunteers clad in
elfin costumes flitted about, wrapping
thousands of gifts for local children.
Santa's Helper, a nonprofit, was
founded in 1986 by then- Wake Forest
football player Chip Rives and Robert
Egleston, president of Interstate Credit
Collections. In its inaugural year, the
program raised over $3,000 to purchase
gifts for children from needy families
in the area.
Rives donned a Santa Claus suit
and enlisted the help of a handful of his
teammates to deliver the gifts, surpris
ing more than 45 families with a visit
from the modern day St. Nick.
"The one constant has always been
See Helpers on All
Photo by L*yla Farmer
Freshman Terence Davis and another student wrap gifts.
Shelter residents get star treatment
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Prime rib, front row seats and gifts
galore.
The men who live at the Winston
Salem Rescue Mission are not accus
tomed to the best, but that's exactly
what they got last Thursday night at
Center Grove Baptist Church in
Clemmons.
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men from the
Mission arrived
at the church by
bus for a memo
rable holiday
experience that
included dinner
and a live stag
ing of the
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Rev. Corts Christmas pag
eant. Each guest
left with a well-stocked, over-sized
gift bag.
For the past several years, the
church has given the royal treatment
to residents of the Mission - a faith
based homeless shelter and substance
abuse recovery program. But this was
the first year that an additional group
of about 50, mostly women and chil
dren, from other local shelters were
treated to a similar experience on
Photo by Michael Burton/Center Orove
Guests receive gift bags.
Friday.
"When you serve the needs of oth
ers, that's when you look most like
Jesus," said Center Grove Pastor
Steve Corts.
The 1 ,200-member suburban
church is a long way from downtown
Winston-Salem and even farther away
from the challenges and demons that
the mission residents have faced.
Corts said although his church has
"cows on one side and $400,000
homes on the other." he wanted to get
his congregation to reach beyond its
surroundings.
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Concerns about
health prioritized
BY LAYLA FARMER
THE CHRONICLE .
The Forsyth County Department of Public
Health, in collaboration with the Forsyth County
Healthy Community Coalition, has identified eight
priority areas that need more attention in a 2008
State of the County Health Report.
Domestic violence, homelessness and illegal
dumping are among those listed as top priorities in
the report, which is based on data from the years
2003-2007; as were school nutrition, infant mortali
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