Gentrification of My Home
Unnatural sounds rise in the night
The twisting of metal on metal
Like nails on a chalkboard
Large chunks of concrete
Torn apart, falling to their demise
Crushing, scraping
Ugly sounds
Telling the story
Of many others
Gone down
A piece of history
Too quickly
Being replaced by
Empty, meaningless forms
Looming, threatening
Taking over
Much too rapidly
Sqeezing in on all sides
While the people sleep
Hypnotized by
Money
Promises
Ignorance
Lack of vision
Not realizing
One day
They will [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Laurie Cook
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Fire in the Night!
Please pray for our neighbor and the family of our neighbor as they are living a tragedy right now. Tuesday night around 9:30 pm fire broke out in our neighbors house severely burning her over 90% of her body.
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Raul
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Michael’s Breakthrough!!
As some of you know Michael has been on a 15 month journey with the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative (www.devosurbanleadership.org) which is basically part boot camp, part retreat, and part grad school, with a focus on developing urban leaders who work with youth in the cities of America. This experience has been amazing and a [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Michael
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