Hospitality network offers needed services
In his article, "Greensboro makes a faith-based statement" (Ideas, Feb. 19), Bob Wineburg identified several exemplary faith-based organizations providing essential services to our community. Left off his list, however, was Guilford Interfaith Hospitality Network (GIHN), an ecumenical effort providing shelter, food and case management to homeless families with children.
Indeed, more than 50 local communities of faith support GIHN: Jewish, Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Protestant churches from many denominations. The network's mission, "Connecting faith-based communities to provide hospitality and hope for homeless families," underscores the important concept that persons with different faiths and perspectives can and should work together for the common good.
Incidentally, GIHN operates in and finds support from congregations in both Greensboro and High Point, linking two cities that historically have chosen to work apart rather than together.
Manning A. Connors
Greensboro
The writer is chairman, GIHN Board of Trustees.Greensboro
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Thank you Manning for giving this missing information to the public.
Our church, in High Point, has participated within the GIHN network for about three years.
It has been an honor to be of service and to provide hope for the hopeless as an overnight host.
Thanks for letting us serve others, as we would hope to be, if our circumstances ever placed us in the same situation.
Posted on March 3, 2006 6:43 AM
Our church also participates in this program. It appears to be very successful. When I have prepared meals, it is always for a different set of families. This is a short term program which helps people become independent again.
Posted on March 3, 2006 8:00 AM