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The latest news and testimony from the Open Door:
State-Wide Death Penalty Abolition Summit: Saturday January 28
January 17, 2012 – 3:52 pm
Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Amnesty International, and Ebenezer Baptist Church present
A CALL TO ACTION:
Uniting to End Georgia’s Death Penalty
A State-Wide Death Penalty Abolition Summit
Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM
at Ebenezer Baptist Church
407 Auburn Ave., Atlanta, GA 30312
RSVP to info@gfadp.org or 404-250-3540
For more information visit www.gfadp.org
January 2012 Hospitality Available Online
December 22, 2011 – 8:47 pm
“Why we love and work at the odc: streets and prisons” a note from volunteer Mary Catherine Johnson
December 13, 2011 – 5:16 pm
[Below is a note from Mary Catherine Johnson to Eduard Loring sharing her experience of volunteering at the ODC.]
You write the best love analogies – thank you!
I wish I could wash dishes on Saturday night, and spend time with you at Dayspring. With Marcus’s contact visit on Saturday and a family commitment on Sunday it’s just too much this weekend. But I really do wish I could be there, and will miss all of you.
Thank you for letting me be a part of Wednesday nights – they are very special. I used to cry a lot when I’d drive home after Wednesday house duty, so sad over the pain and suffering I had witnessed. I’m still sad but not so weepy anymore – now I feel more angry, more passionate about helping reduce the distance. What a gift last night to hear Linda read from her diary, to listen to Cordell talk about MLK, to witness Jason preparing the dining room for overnight guests, to send off a weary traveller to South Carolina with food and love, to provide some cold medicine to men and women with stuffy heads and sore throats, to welcome a newly homeless couple who desperately need help, to help a woman get free from her urine-soaked clothes before she slept in Open Door’s warm living room – and so much more that I did not see but God did.
Everything I know
I know only because I love.
-from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Looking forward to our dinner next Tuesday!
Mary Catherine
November-December 2011 Hospitality Available Online
November 5, 2011 – 1:59 pm
Father Tom Francis will offer a homily at worship this Sunday
October 28, 2011 – 7:14 am
Friends:
Father Tom Francis of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit will be giving the homily at Open Door Community on Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at 4 pm.
During the worship Tom Newey will present a portrait of Father Tom painted by Nancy Blanchard Honea to the Open Door Community. Join us and remain for supper, please.
RSVP for dinner: 770-246-7618