CountryUp.org:
Tent Cities - Crisis on
the Grassroots Level
In communities across America, the percentage of families in crisis escalates
in proportion to the announcement of layoffs and unemployment. The
scale of this national economic emergency is best illustrated in the recent
media coverage of tent cities across the United States.
The size and scope of challenges facing the household level across America,
has prompted a call for a disaster level contingency response plan. To
date states and municipalities have not stepped up to the plate, in proportion
to the challenges. As we continue to urge emergency economic assistance
for distressed families, in the form for loan modifications, property tax
reappraisals and utilities assistance, it is time for churches to open
their doors and Red Cross Centers to open their emergency shelters.
In every community, distressed families must be reached, unmet needs defined
and emergency assistance provided to prevent a deepening crisis and transition
to the tent cities or emergency shelters.
Tour de America:
Run Across America Project for Hunger, Homelessness and Poverty reaches
133 cities with youth and community talks, media interviews to spotlight unmet
needs of frontline programs across the United States. Project prompts call for unmet needs
coordinators in every U.S. county in theAmerica's Action Plan for Community Service.
Today's Needs
For the Christian community, the message is that the suffering and afflicted
in our communities represent "Jesus" himself. To what extent are we
working in our communities to identify those crying out in need? How
well are we striving to understand the full scope of their dilemma, so we
could think through a plan we would want for ourselves, if in their shoes
? The answers to these questions provide us with heavens view of our
effectiveness as a church:
"For whatsoever you have done unto one of the least
of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." -- Matthew 25: 40
In the grand picture of divinity at work in all facets of the interfaith
community, love is the common theme that unites and encompasses the true potential
through which the scope of suffering and affliction can be alleviated and
peace achieved. -- The Ultimate Objective:Humanitarian Resource
Institute.
Grassroots Mobilization CountryUp.org: Arts Integration Into Education
The Soundtrack
"Special
Forces Prayer" from the album compilation "Country Goes Global" by Country Music Association artist
Stephen Michael Apatow is now streaming on YouTube.
The words for the "Special Forces Prayer" were written in 1961 for William
Pelham "Bill" Yarborough, Written by SF Chaplain John Stevey, the 7th SFG
(ABN) Chaplain. Today, the theme "De oppresso liber"
(Pentagon: 1st Special Forces: Latin: Liberate
From Oppression) as the focus of those working in 192 member states of the
United Nations, who have joined Humanitarian Resource Institute in the
mission of identification of the priority issues, dissection of
peer reviewed facts and consensus building for strategic planning, development
and implementation.
