The 7th Annual SafeTeen Georgia Driving Academy at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Saturday, May 5, was a great success.  More than 1,000 Metro-Atlanta teens and parents  and over  70 Police, Fire and EMS professionals will participated.

Teens and their parents

Learned about Georgia Driving Laws, Distracted and Impaired Driving, Trauma Care, Car Maintenance, Railroad Crossing Safety and much more in a series of…

An AmeriCorps service project for the city of Atlanta involves developing a volunteer program that will serve the participants at the Thomasville Center of Hope pilot center (1835 Henry Thomas Drive, Atlanta 30315). The majority of the volunteer opportunities available involve working with the after school program, which is facilitated by the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta. One immediate need is for volunteer tutors. You can find additional volunteer opportunities by going to the…

The  Good Friday Pilgrimage is an interfaith, walking reflection based on the traditional Christian prayer experience called Stations of the Cross. It is a tradition, synonymous with Lent, Holy Week, and especially Good Friday, in which we remember the suffering Jesus Christ endured on the day He was…

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HELP FEED HUNGRY CHILDREN

Through The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)

THE SFSP:

• Looking for eligible sponsors to serve nutritious meals to children throughout Georgia during the summer months

• Administered in Georgia by Bright…

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Ebenezer Baptist Church offers self guided tours of this historic land of the civil rights movement.  The sanctuary became a spiritual haven for civil rights activists when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as senior pastor in the 1960s. On the self-guided audio tour,…

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Power Point for Faith Communities

upcoming free webminars about the Affordable Care Act including two in Spanish. 

What do you get when you take four religious leaders from four different faiths, and put them together in a room to discuss issues?

You don't necessarily get a lot of common ground, but that's not really their objective. They are more interested in higher ground.

Sitting around a table at the downtown office of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Rev. Joseph Roberts, Jr., Rev. Joanna Adams, Rabbi Alvin Sugarman, and Imam Plemon al-Amin, represent more than a…

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Bill Creates New Systemic Barrier To Overcoming Homelessness:Assumes Poor Are Drug Users

The Georgia House Judiciary Committee will consider a bill - HB 861 - which would create another systemic barrier towards recovering from homelessness, and have a devastating effect on Georgia's low-income families and the unemployed. Under the provisions of the…

Opinion: About the Baptist sexuality conference By David Gushee Monday, October 24, 2011

Next April the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University are organizing and hosting a conference on sexuality and covenant. Naturally, people are already talking about what they think the conference is…

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An opportunity for people in your congregation to be their own advocates. Citizens are encouraged participate in public hearings to assist the County in finalizing amendments to the 2012 Action Plan concerning housing issues in the community.  Comments will be provided to Fulton County Board of Commissioners.  The scheduled public hearings are:

Monday, February 27, 2012 at 6:00 p.m., South Fulton Service Center, 5600 Stonewall Tell Rd., College Park

Wednesday, February 29, 2012…