Community Celebration--CDM AmeriCorps

Community is about people coming together to work hard, support mutual interests, care for one another and sustain productivity and health.

Community is also very much about celebration, at least from time to time!
Last weekend the Central Dallas Ministries' AmeriCorps team organized a great community event that touched hundreds of residents and their children.

Here are a few of the photos from the day.

Enjoy!

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CDM youth make the "O"

Several students from our After School Academy have been involved in a chemistry camp created by one of our good friends, Jennifer Stimpson, a chemistry teacher here in Dallas.

You can read about her program, "Get a KIC Out of Science," with KIC meaning "Knowledge in Chemistry," in the November issue of O, the Oprah magazine or online here.

Pay special attention to the photo at the top of the online article (and above left here). CDM's Janet Morrison captured the image, even though she doesn't get credit here! The young lady to the far left in the photo is Phantasia Preston, daughter of our own Sylvia Baylor!

Watching our future scientists learning their craft is exciting to say the least!

Great work all around!
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Ending homelessness via homes

Thanks to The Dallas Morning News for publishing the Op-Ed essay in yesterday's edition written by new U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston and Jedd Medefind, Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Mr. Preston and Mr. Medefind pointed to CDM's "Destination Home" effort as an example of how to cut into the homeless problem in our country. We enjoyed having both of them on a tour last week.

This is the sort of good news needed as we continue to address the difficult challenges of homelessness.

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Great review for Clint Black show and CDM!

To read a solid review of "A Night to Remember 2008" with Clint Black, check out The Fort Worth Star-Telegram here!

Great night!

Great music and community celebration!

Great supporters of our mission in inner city Dallas

In the process, Clint Black became a new and very helpful friend, plus he sang his heart out for 2 hours!