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10 Days - *0 Inltidtivrs ~ 1 Choice ? - ti . > .urn lumm UI. ami %fnruu*i . *% 44-441 Photo* by Lay I a Farmer Love Out Loud Executive Producer Chuck Spong. Most Wonderful Time of the Year Program aims to recruit droves of holiday volunteers BY LAYLA FARMER THE CHRONICLE Area non-profits may receive unprecedented levels of volunteer assistance this holiday season, thanks to the inception of an ambitious new project. "Love Out Loud: 30 Days. 30 Initiatives, 1 Choice" is a month-long ini tiative that aims to deploy hundreds of volunteers into the community to aid non profits with a wide variety of missions, according to Chuck Spong. executive producer of the program and the arts pas tor at Winston-Salem First, a mega church near Wake Forest University. "Our goal isn't to build a ministry, our goal is simply to partner with people who are already doing that work and fuse them with people who are willing to serve," he explained. "We feel strongly that we were literally sup posed to Tie as comprehensive as wc can be." Love Out Loud is the result of the collaboration of more than 30 local churches They came together two years ago to host Christmas for the City, an ongoing free three-day event that offers services, activities and enter tainment Spong said Love Out Loud was inspired by a Thanksgiving event Winston Salem First hosted last year. The church had planned to assemble and distribute l(X) baskets of Thanksgiving goodies to needy families Four hundred members of the church's congregation showed up to volunteer for the effort. Spong said the the turnout proved that people have a desire to help their fel low man. "We feel like a lot of the church culture and the cul ture at large is embracing their responsibility to give back to the community." he said . Six volunteer leaders will serve during the 30-day peri od. Each will be given a theme based on the scripture Matt 25; 34 (1 was hungry and you gave me something to eat ...) and a block of days on which to organise their teams of volunteers to serve identified needs. "You can't be everything to everybody, and there's so many nonprofits out there that are already doing the work," said Winston-Salem First's Outreach Pastor Stephen Powell "(This effort) is just a way of com ing alongside someone and then helping them with the customers that they serve and their staff, to help accomplish their goal." The objective is for the volunteers to find a cause they can be passionate about, explained Powell. "Hopefully, it opens up other opportunities for peo ple to build relationships, to understand what nonprofits really do and to become a part of that." said Powell, who also heads the church's transitional housing facility for ex-offenders. "By learn ing about a nonprofit and the work that they do. and then going to help out, (volun teers) may find a place that they will continue to volun Outreach Pastor Stephen Powell is taking part. teer." The effort will require ?substantial planning and con siderable community support in order to be successful, but Spong said he is confident that city residents are up for the task. "We're clearly not pro ceeding with caution; we're actually kind of proceeding with abandon." he declared. "We feel like it's what God has called us to do. It's a walk of faith and we're swinging for the fences." Love Out Loud: 30 Days. 30 Initiatives. / Choice will take place Nov. 23-Dee. 22. 2010. For more information or to register your nonprofit to receive volunteers, visit h'hw. christmasforthecity.com Christmas for the Citx will he held Dec 21-23. The Chronicle (USPS 067-910) was established by Ernest H. Pitt and Ndubisi Egemonye in 1974" and is published every Thursday by Winston-Salem Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc.. 617 N. Liberty Street. Winston-Salem, N.C. 27 10f. Periodicals postage paid at Winston-Salem. N.C. Annual subscription price is $30.72, POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Chronicle. P.O. Box 1636 Winston-Salem, NC 27102-1636 FREE PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING THURSDAY, SEPT. 16 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. By appointment only ? call 336-716-2255 SATURDAY, SEPT. 18 7 a.m. - 10 a.m. No appointment needed Downtown Health Plaza of Baptist Hospital 1200 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem Recommended for men over age 40 who are black or who have a family history of prostate cancer, and for all men over age 50 who haven't had a prostate exam in the last year Sponsored by the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University, the Department of Urology and Downtown Health Plaza Wake Forest University Baptist I* M f O I C A I CFNTIR News Clips Air show starts Saturday The Winston-Salem Air Show will be on Sept. 11 and 12 . Among the attractions will be the Geico Skytypers, who use six of the remaining 11 WWII North American SNJ-2 planes left in the world to create messages at an alti tude of lOjOOO forming letters in a dot-matrix-like pattern. Admission is $1 1 if tickets are purchased in advance, or $15 at the gate; elementary - aged children are free when accompanied by a paying adult and military and senior discounts are available. For more information, go to wsairshow.com. Beamon improves her community Ann Beamon, director of development for the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University, has continued to contribute to the local com munity through her involve ment in the Communities in School (CIS) and Leadership North Carolina pro grams. Beamon recently began a " Fe e d - a - Family Monthly" initiative with CIS of Greater Greensboro and received the Champion's Cup, the highest honor that is bestowed upon an individual or organization by the CIS. Only those who have made a considerable dif ference to the agency and/or to its students arc considered for the award. She is also a graduate of the 2009-2010 class of the Leadership North Carolina program. The Leadership North Carolina program is designed to inform, develop and engage committed leaders by broadcasting their under standing and involvement in issues and opportunities fac ing the state, bcamon was one of 45 citizens selected from 18 counties across the state. Family Promise needs votes to win funds Family Promise of Forsyth County, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless families with children, is a finalist to receive SSOjOOO in the Pepsi Refresh Project. The agency is asking the public to help it secure the funds. The public can vote for finalist agencies at www.refresheverything.com/f amilypromiseforsyth or sign up or vote from a mobile phone by texting 102312 to Pepsi (73774). Standard text messaging rates apply. The top 10 vote-getters in each category win. Pepsi is giving away mil lions each month to support good ideas that make a posi tive impact in the community. Family Promise needs the funds to operate its Interfaith Hospitality Network and Day Center, which helps parents get back on their feet and chil dren to stay in school. "You may vote once a day until September 30," says Debbi Butner, executive director of Family Promise "We encourage supporters to add it to their daily 'to do' list and to ask friends and family to vote, too. The number of homeless families is increas ing at an alarming rate? they need our help." Food for the hungry raised during football game The 14th Annual Soup Bowl football game and food drive between Greensboro College and crosstown rival Guilford College Saturday night collected 7,119 cans of food for the Greensboro Urban Ministry homeless ministry and Second Harvest Food Bank. The Pride won the football game 17-15 in a game jtiat^vasn^tecidec^^ final minute. Fans coming lo the game, held this year at Guilford's Armfield Athletic Center, received free admission in exchange for two cans of food. Guilford supporters con tributed 4.519 cans, while Greensboro fans contributed 2.600. Both colleges also held food drives on campus during the days leading up to the game Greensboro College's collection was anchored by the softball team, whose 20 members gathered 2% cam. The event wus organized on the Greensboro College campus by Anna Davis, coor dinator of the Village 401 pro gram and a volunteer with the government anti -poverty pro gram AmeriCorps Vista. Village 401 is a community outreach effort to benefit the people and institutions that share the college's 27401 zip code. It is part of the N.C. Campus Compact, an umbrel la organization for community service programs on more than two dozen N.C. college campuses. ' Author at WSSU Zee Edgeli, retired Kent State University English pro fessor and the first Belizean author whose work reached an international audience, will speak at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) at 3 p.m. on Sept. 10, in 228 Hall Patterson Building. In addition to Edgell's visit to WSSU. she will also participate in Bookmarks Festival of Books on Saturday. Sept. 11 from 10 a.m. -5 p.m. Edgell's program will be held from 2:30 - 3:15 p.m. in Artworks Gallery on Sixth and Trade Streets in the downtown Arts District. Considered Belize's prin cipal contemporary writer, she is the author of four novels. Her first novel, "Beka Lamb" has become a modem classic of Caribbean Literature. An entire generation of people in the Caribbean read "Beka Lamb" as part of their high! school literature curricula. Edgell was bom in Belize City, then the capital of a coun try known as British Honduras ?JBICT WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY Lyceum Cultural Events PROUDLY PRESENTS Presidents own united states marine rand MONDAY, OCTOBER 4 ! 7:30 P.M. KENNETH R. WILLIAMS AUDITORIUM - ON THE CAMPUS OF WNSl Jfcitli; Marin? Bund concerts offer a unique blend of traditional concert band atul contemporary wind ensemble music uhich has thrilled audiences at the White House and across the I'nited States for nearly tun ceytturies. ? One Performance Only ? FREE ADMISSION ? Open Seating ? Tickets limited to four (4) per request ? Cameras not allowed ? Ticket holder must be seated by 7 1 5 p m ? Doors will open to general public at 7:20 p. m ? For your added convenience tickets may be picked up at the University Ticket Office in ttie lobby of the Albert H Anderson Center, weekdays from 1 1 00 a m. to 5:00 p.m. University Ticket Office (336) 750-3220 ? Contact legettel@wssu edu for more information ORl>ER FORM ( TuLts limited n> 4 per request) NAME: No. ot tickets: ADDRESS: 1 CITY: STATE: Z1P _ Please send < rrder form ai)d self -addressed, <tampi'd enyeLipe to: LYC'El M CI III H AL EVENTS - Marine Hand Tickets Wimton-Sulfm State I nnmity Cumfnis Bar 19412 Winston -Nuletn, NC 271 10
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