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Title: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: thundley4 on July 30, 2012, 09:51:58 AM
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Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/lilburn-church-distributing-100k-1486846.html

More than 100,000 pounds of food, from cereal to produce to canned soup, was set up on tables for the thousands who filed into the church hall, located on the Berkmar High School campus.

The event ran from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., but many, like Norcross resident Juanita Kennemore showed up early.

"I got here at 6, because we have no food," said Kennemore, who is disabled and lives with her two children and two grandchildren.

Even before the distribution began, the sanctuary was packed with more than 400 people, and the line leading into the building stretched out the door, along a shaded breezeway and into the parking lot.


Hat tip to a church that does a Christian thing.
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Tarheel_Dem (14,645 posts)
4. Wonderful community spirit. I wish more churches felt this way.

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RagAss (12,036 posts)
7. How great and rare.

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theophilus (3,206 posts)
10. Moving in the right direction?

There seems to be a movement ongoing for churches to actually adhere more to the teachings of Jesus. They seem to be turning their backs on the fractious "Thou shalt nots" and embracing the loaves and fishes approach. This is an improvement, imo. However, true progress will be made when American Christendom realizes that local churches cannot truly "teach people to fish". Giving a fish to a hungry person is often needed but local groups can only help so many. To help millions you need, yes you guessed it, Government. People seem to be choosing love over hate but it remains to be seen where this will finish up. With financial stagnation and climate change and peak oil we are going to need GOOD government more than ever. Let us hope that evangelical brain cells start firing and some actually Christian practices begin to be the norm among those claiming the title....

WTF?  Almost all churches have some method of providing food for people that need it.  They've been doing since, well since there have been churches.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Chris_ on July 30, 2012, 09:53:46 AM
WTF?  Almost all churches have some method of providing food for people that need it.  They've been doing since, well since there have been churches.
Maybe those pro-abortion liberal churches are different.  Ask them for food and they hand you a form for food stamps and bus fare.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 30, 2012, 10:04:03 AM
WTF?  Almost all churches have some method of providing food for people that need it.  They've been doing since, well since there have been churches.

My church is in an affluent area, so we go into poorer parishes (inner cities) and do soup kitchens for them.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Ballygrl on July 30, 2012, 10:25:37 AM
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Hat tip to a church that does a Christian thing.

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Tarheel_Dem (14,645 posts)
4. Wonderful community spirit. I wish more churches felt this way.

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RagAss (12,036 posts)
7. How great and rare.

These people are insane, you can tell they don't know a darn thing about Churches, the Churches around here have hot lunches for people, and there isn't 1 Church that I know of that doesn't have a food bank. At our Church people drop off food during each Mass, you have seniors who volunteer at our food bank, also we're discussing making donations of school books, backpacks, pens and pencils for kids going back to school. Pull your head out of the sand and you'll see what the Churches are doing.

Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 30, 2012, 10:42:56 AM
I'm all for this but wish there was a way to tell the needy from the greedy.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: thundley4 on July 30, 2012, 10:45:33 AM
I'm all for this but wish there was a way to tell the needy from the greedy.

You mean like certain DUmmies that don't need the help but still want to go to food banks? 
Title: Re: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: DLR Pyro on July 30, 2012, 10:50:22 AM
Christian charity baffles DUmmies.
Title: Re: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 30, 2012, 10:52:36 AM
Christian charity baffles DUmmies.

And Christians--good, Godfearing Christians--enrage DUmmies.
Title: Re: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 30, 2012, 10:56:52 AM
And Christians--good, Godfearing Christians--enrage DUmmies.

So true. Hi5 ...

Topic: Churches have been doing things like that for centuries and they are just now realizing it? God lord, they are stupid. Wow.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Gina on July 30, 2012, 11:19:04 AM
Right, we collect food nonstop at my Methodist church.  Mostly goes to the hispanic community or that is what we are told it is targeted for.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Zeus on July 30, 2012, 11:23:47 AM
All the churches around here that I'm aware of either run food banks or donate to those that do, even across domination's . They also do the school supplies thing in conjunction with the evil Walmart that does a one for one matching donation.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 30, 2012, 11:35:16 AM
My church is in an affluent area, so we go into poorer parishes (inner cities) and do soup kitchens for them.

I forgot that my parish supports two local food pantries, and two Birthright crisis pregnancy centers.  One of the local food pantries has said that they get 80% of their donations from our parish.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Bad Dog on July 30, 2012, 11:38:15 AM
Churches have been doing this in every community since before the founding & these idiots are blissfully unaware.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Scoobie on July 30, 2012, 11:49:26 AM

I can't believe no one from over there has railed on about the church being located on the grounds of a High School. I guess it's ok for God to be on-campus as long as He's giving them their freebies.



Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: whiffleball on July 30, 2012, 12:03:43 PM
You mean like certain DUmmies that don't need the help but still want to go to food banks? 

Greenbriar perhaps?  But, she's rich; Coach bags, Pink Lady pistol.  Why would a good prog be taking food out of the mouths of the least able?  Because she's a greedy bitch, that's why, and shining example of a 'good' prog.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: whiffleball on July 30, 2012, 12:05:12 PM
All the churches in my area donate to several soup kitchens and pantries.  This has been going on for as long as this little town has existed.  No one, no one, ever, is turned down for food assistance by our churches and never have been. 
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Karin on July 30, 2012, 12:29:43 PM
Not only that, but she was thinking about "placing an order" with the foodbank, and was wondering how the quality was.  I'll never forget it. 

Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 30, 2012, 12:44:18 PM
You would think that the liberals would know about the food banks, I mean, I am sure they frequent there quite a bit for their daily meals and all.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: jukin on July 30, 2012, 12:53:19 PM
I bet we can count on on hand how many DUchebags give to charity. More than likely count it on one finger.

How much did Slow Joe Biden give to charity last year? .001% of his income. Of course that was ten times more than the year before because it's an election year.

The left is the least tolerant, least charitable, and least intelligent. On the other hand the left is the most hateful, most lazy, and most ignorant. All of what they yell and scream at us is all that they are.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Bondai on July 30, 2012, 12:54:17 PM
God help us all. Why am I not surprised that the DUmmie comes to the conclusion that government and only government has the power to help people. The church and people of faith have been taking care of those in need  for a very long time and without any government help or interference. If LIBERALS all of a sudden admit that the churches and it's members are capable of providing needed services which include food distribution, helping the homeless, providing counseling for everything from drug abuse to family problems and the list goes on, then why do they continually attack Christians and Christianity and have repeatedly tried to bring the churches under some type of government control by passing laws that violate Christian doctrine, restrict the location and numbers of churches, attempt to stifle their free speech and by attempting to tax them out of existence.

To a LIBERAL government is their only one true religion. They believe that with government all things are possible and that bureaucrats are more qualified to run your life than you are.No matter what amount of feint praise they heap upon the church at DU or anywhere else, they are lying. What they really want is to destroy the church and Christianity in this country. That way there will no longer be any opposition to the promotion of their immoral beliefs and policies and the government will become the one true God. LIBERALS will then line up to bow at the alter of their God and sing it praises. Actions speak louder than words and I don't believe one thing that LIBERALS tell me.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Chris_ on July 30, 2012, 12:56:31 PM
Who was the lucky person that got Slick Willie's used drawers?
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Bondai on July 30, 2012, 01:15:25 PM
Who was the lucky person that got Slick Willie's used drawers?

I am surprised their aren't a pair on display at the Clinton library...right next to the blue dress. :rotf:
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 30, 2012, 01:26:37 PM
I am surprised their aren't a pair on display at the Clinton library...right next to the blue dress. :rotf:

I think they are holding out for approval to put them in the Smithsonian.
Title: Re: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: redwhit on July 30, 2012, 02:29:07 PM
And Christians--good, Godfearing Christians--enrage DUmmies.

Some people just desperately want to believe that nothing good can come from religion and people who ascribe to Christianity.  I go to an urban church which has an incredibly busy foodbank, regular meal programs, ESL classes, refugee assistance, and all kinds of good stuff like that - just like every other Catholic church I've ever belonged to.

Not to discount other denominations - it's just that I know more about the Catholics being one.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: obumazombie on July 30, 2012, 04:40:05 PM
A great book recommended to me by Newt Gingrich was "The Tragedy of American Compassion" by Marvin J. Olasky. Charity has become very corrupted by libs.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 30, 2012, 04:51:28 PM
One of Madison's historic Catholic churches even let a homeless man burn it to the ground 5 or 6 years ago.

What more do DUmmies want?
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: delilahmused on July 31, 2012, 02:10:52 AM
I thought all churches did something like that. Our church has a food cupboard. We have a fund to help with necessary expenses as well, like someone about to lose their electricity. We don't ask people about their religious or political beliefs because we don't care. Churches have been about loaves and fishes forever but the moral guidelines in the "thou shalt not's matter. It's those values that influence our giving. It's easy for a person to give when the government takes the money from you before you see it. There's no free will, no compassion, no sense of doing something for someone other than yourself.

There was a time when this was common practice. Neighbors helped neighbors. You knew them, they mattered to you personally. Those giving to their neighbors in need didn't have to fill out ridiculous tax forms, deal with the IRS or be constantly harped at by liberals, democrats & other assorted loser who insisted you weren't doing enough. You needed food? Neighbors brought food, invited you for dinner, cooked extra food, hired you to do work for them. Family was always there to help.

When the feds got involved, the closeness dissolved. It's not enough to say "well, people are more spread out now." They still live in neighborhoods, apartment buildings, trailer parks. If the government wasn't there to depersonalize everything, neighbors would get to know each other. People help people they know. It's human nature. But DUmmies want to take the easy way out...they don't have to think about helping, put forth the effort that shows true, heartfelt compassion. It isn't in their nature to care. It IS in their nature to spout pretty words so they can pretend they do.

Cindie
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on July 31, 2012, 02:21:00 AM
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theophilus (3,206 posts)
10. Moving in the right direction?

There seems to be a movement ongoing for churches to actually adhere more to the teachings of Jesus. They seem to be turning their backs on the fractious "Thou shalt nots" and embracing the loaves and fishes approach. (....)  

The cherry-picking DUllards decide which tenats of Religion are cool or not.

Idiots. :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer: :hammer:  

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I thought all churches did something like that. Our church has a food cupboard.

Most do.  It's only realized by DUllards when narratively expedient to do so.

Some people just desperately want to believe that nothing good can come from religion and people who ascribe to Christianity.  I go to an urban church which has an incredibly busy foodbank, regular meal programs, ESL classes, refugee assistance, and all kinds of good stuff like that - just like every other Catholic church I've ever belonged to.

DUllards have a constant feedback loop going on in their brains because they can't sort out the dichotomy between what they have been indoctrinated with and the overwhelming evidence of their senses.  Poor dears have to be so many different things at the same time; that they end up being too confused to reason and unable to deal with reality.  They assume that the easy was out of their dilemma is to try to shape reality to conform to their preconceived notion of what reality should be.  It's pure emotion, with no rational thought to temper that emotion.  Thus, they end up coming up with ridiculous ideas that defy logic re: Socialism, without Capitalism (cannot work) and they must demonize Religion, even while trying to praise it.   :mental:


Not to discount other denominations - it's just that I know more about the Catholics being one.

Me, too.  Went to few Buddhist rituals years ago.  Had to go to confession.  :-)
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: jtyangel on July 31, 2012, 04:48:48 AM
These people are insane, you can tell they don't know a darn thing about Churches, the Churches around here have hot lunches for people, and there isn't 1 Church that I know of that doesn't have a food bank. At our Church people drop off food during each Mass, you have seniors who volunteer at our food bank, also we're discussing making donations of school books, backpacks, pens and pencils for kids going back to school. Pull your head out of the sand and you'll see what the Churches are doing.

Yeah that. Really speaks to the total lack of knowledge they really have about churches. What a bunch if dim wits who think they know it all.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: whiffleball on July 31, 2012, 04:51:42 AM
When the feds got involved, the closeness dissolved. It's not enough to say "well, people are more spread out now." They still live in neighborhoods, apartment buildings, trailer parks. If the government wasn't there to depersonalize everything, neighbors would get to know each other. People help people they know. It's human nature. But DUmmies want to take the easy way out...they don't have to think about helping, put forth the effort that shows true, heartfelt compassion. It isn't in their nature to care. It IS in their nature to spout pretty words so they can pretend they do.

Cindie

Around autumn '09 our pantrys board of directors decided to opt for a small percentage of proceeds from the United Way and government food program because we were getting more and more people coming in.  Since then the red tape surrounding this tiny bit of money has grown exponentially.   The interview forms for assistance has tripled as has the amount of questions, rules and guidelines.   None of the new bureaucracy helps anyone, but I guess it gives a job to a bean counter somewhere.  It's certainly discouraged volunteers from doing interviews and the board will soon be considering if that 'help' can be eliminated.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: claret1995 on July 31, 2012, 06:40:54 AM
Maybe those pro-abortion liberal churches are different.  Ask them for food and they hand you a form for food stamps and bus fare.

Naw ....First a bag of Cheetos and a doobie
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: redwhit on July 31, 2012, 10:05:01 AM
Around autumn '09 our pantrys board of directors decided to opt for a small percentage of proceeds from the United Way and government food program because we were getting more and more people coming in.  Since then the red tape surrounding this tiny bit of money has grown exponentially.   The interview forms for assistance has tripled as has the amount of questions, rules and guidelines.   None of the new bureaucracy helps anyone, but I guess it gives a job to a bean counter somewhere.  It's certainly discouraged volunteers from doing interviews and the board will soon be considering if that 'help' can be eliminated.

That's the very thing that's keeping the outreach programs at my church relatively small and low-key: we quite simply have no interest in any government influence or meddling.  There's no doubt, with all the rules and regulations that are out there, that we're doing something wrong that could be used to shut us down if we ran into a bureaucrat with an agenda.  So, instead of programs growing naturally, we get to a certain size and then stop, maybe sending some people over to another parish to help them build up their own outreach programs.

I am sure that those bean counters you mentioned are also fully aware that organizations like ours would run them out of business if the government would get the hell out of the way and let us do our thing.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Jasonw560 on July 31, 2012, 10:35:29 AM
Our church doesn't have a food bank, because we give to the local shelter/food bank (our former pastor is now the executive director of it), and we as a family, makes sure every year that the shelter (called Loaves and Fishes, btw) has plenty of fresh okra or broccoli from my FIL's garden. They get first, then we get what they don't need.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: dandi on July 31, 2012, 03:17:45 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021043460

WTF?  Almost all churches have some method of providing food for people that need it.  They've been doing since, well since there have been churches.

I was going to type something about a stunning level of ignorance on their part, but anyone who's been a member here for any amount of time is no longer stunned by any of the sewage effluent that flows from DUmmy keyboards. It's to be expected from a group of people who have chosen to seal themselves off from the real world, create their own mythology and believe without question any slander and demonization they present to one another over there. Their knowledge of the Bible is restricted to a handful of verses they've taken out of context to be used as weapons and their knowledge of Christians is based solely the caricatures they've created from occasional news stories about a corrupt clergyman or pedophile priest.

That's the way they want it, though. By belittling and marginalizing Christians and Christianity it makes it easier to practice their own iniquities without guilt.

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There seems to be a movement ongoing for churches to actually adhere more to the teachings of Jesus. They seem to be turning their backs on the fractious "Thou shalt nots" and embracing the loaves and fishes approach. This is an improvement, imo. However, true progress will be made when American Christendom realizes that local churches cannot truly "teach people to fish". Giving a fish to a hungry person is often needed but local groups can only help so many. To help millions you need, yes you guessed it, Government. People seem to be choosing love over hate but it remains to be seen where this will finish up. With financial stagnation and climate change and peak oil we are going to need GOOD government more than ever. Let us hope that evangelical brain cells start firing and some actually Christian practices begin to be the norm among those claiming the title....

Perhaps churches can't do it all, but consider this: Instead of sitting back and snarking about the faith-based groups who are trying to help, maybe you secular/atheist types could try to organize more charity of this kind yourselves. Better than paying lip service to how things "ought to be" in this country with regard to the poor and infirm. Together, we might be able to feed all those people who need it without waiting around and mewling for a government solution that may or may not materialize. Why are you waiting around to be forced to do it at the point of a government gun? Is it because you're content to use poverty as political tool? To use government loaves and fishes to buy votes in order to further an agenda that has nothing to do with filling these folks' bellies? Naaah, that couldn't be it.  
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Tucker on July 31, 2012, 03:38:08 PM
I'm waiting for the reply that chastise the church for not giving the food to the soup kitchen/food bank so as all the needy could partake and not just those that go to church.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: Jasonw560 on August 01, 2012, 09:42:30 AM
Oh, yeah, one other thing we did at church was to take up a collection for the day care workers who can't make it on their salaries, and pay for each one to get a full Thanksgiving meal. It was done by word of mouth. As the saying goes,"charity begins at home."

edited for spelling.
Title: Re: Georgia church gives away 100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people today
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 01, 2012, 12:43:28 PM
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100,000 lbs of food to 9000 people


Sounds like an average lunch hour at a Chik-fil-A.