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		<title>We&#8217;re the Same</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Shaw</dc:creator>
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After spending most of my life doing the opposite, I now stop the car when I see homeless people.
I was driving through Charlotte having just dropped off a friend.  Shortly before I let him out of the car, I asked, &#8220;What do homeless people need?&#8221;  (He&#8217;s qualified to answer this because he and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teen Runaways: New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pair of great articles appeared in the New York Times on Monday and Tuesday that shouldn&#8217;t be missed.  As part of their &#8220;Running in the Shadows&#8221; series, the pieces combine to consider the growing epidemic of child runaways, offer a challenging perspective of why and how children and teenagers live on the streets, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are only asked to love&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a quote that I read about two years ago and it has never left me.  Even more so, this quote challenges me in a different way every time I read it.  I read it again today.  It comes from a story written about a girl and about hope from To Write Love on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Faith and a Good Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of last month I had a real interesting week.  Sunday the 27th, I faced the first day of a job I worked over two months to get into.  Some friends from church had collected money to put me into  lodging until my first paycheck&#8211;but the job started two weeks later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Privilege of Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lanashaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great insight and advice from a dear and talented man, Wendell Parham, who at the time of writing this was homeless.   I am delighted to report I recently learned he has currently found a place to stay, though it hinges on whether or not he can find sustainable work.  I was fortunate enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlotte Mission Possible</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Shaw</dc:creator>
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Maybe this logo looks familiar to you&#8230;it represents a joint effort between many of Charlotte&#8217;s media outlets (print, broadcast, online) to &#8220;understand the charitable needs of the community, and find ways to help.&#8221;
In the wake of the ongoing financial crisis and recession, local charities and nonprofits have been among the hardest hit by the fiscal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Is Not Too Difficult</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Lauren Lienhard:  I love sitting out on my little apartment porch…I have some petunias and violets and there are lovely trees that soften the view of the garbage dump across the street.  Sitting here this morning, there is a gentle breeze in the air. Quietly, I open my bible and my eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will We Join?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Troy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard the other day the concept of Social Loafing &#8212; The idea that if large group is responsible for something, they are less likely to get something done than if a single person is responsible for that same thing.  We think in our minds ‘Well, someone else is doing that,’ or ‘What can I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Want To Actively Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lanashaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and I were in Madrid, Spain, after 2 months of backpacking and hosteling throughout Europe.  We spent our last dollar getting to the airport, where we would use our travel vouchers to catch the earliest flight back to the States.  Exhausted and ready to settle into a long flight, I reached [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You can&#8217;t be in here, bud&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all happened so fast.  About 60 seconds ago.  I&#8217;m sitting in a Charlotte city center coffee shop with good coffee, free internet, and grainy black and white photos of Vancouver on the walls.  A middle aged black man in a maroon shirt, faded black jeans, and wearing headphones connected to a personal CD player [...]]]></description>
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