August 30, 2010 – 2:39 pm
On August 26, Dr. Stefan G. Kertesz, chairman of One Roof Inc. and a physician at the VA Medical Center, medical students Whitney McNeil and Jason Kelly, UAB School of Nursing faculty Julie Cash, dean of UAB’s School of Public Health Dr. Max Michael, Dr. Renee Desmond, a professor in UAB’s Division of Preventive Medicine, [...]
August 26, 2010 – 11:49 am
Here at Greater Birmingham Ministries, we are undertaking reflection and conversation around how best to fulfill our mission of serving people, pursuing justice, and building community. This is an important process, and one that must go on continually within any organization that seeks to do these things. The world is changing around us every day, [...]
This article starts a continuing series on the blog about the GBM Prayer and how it guides and informs the staff, interns and volunteers at Greater Birmingham Ministries. The Prayer is : O God of many names, reming us that You love all people, no matter how hard we try to deny that love in [...]
August 6, 2010 – 12:35 pm
For years, volunteers from Canterbury United Methodist Church have picked up donations of breads and pastries from Panera Bread Company and deliver them to GBM on a weekly basis so that we can include them in our bags of groceries to clients every Friday morning.
August 6, 2010 – 12:21 pm
Grow Alabama is partnering with GBM to supply fresh produce each week for our clients. You, too, can help. See the previous article for more information. Above is a recent delivery of fresh sweet corn from farms in Alabama.
August 6, 2010 – 12:16 pm
In addition to the steady flow of families and congregations who volunteer, GBM had the privilege of hosting four Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School students every Friday from January through May thanks to the school’s internship placement program. The students assisted in many areas of GBM’s work, not only in the food pantry [...]
August 6, 2010 – 12:14 pm
GBM has been graced with a steady flow of interns since the beginning of this year. Two Samford University sociology majors, Melanie Fox and Allison Breed, worked at GBM from January to May. Soon after they left, Simpson University cross-cultural studies major Sharon Barr, a native South African, worked with us for five weeks. Rhodes [...]
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