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February was a blur. First, I was sick with the flu and bronchitis so bad that I could hardly do anything for two weeks. Bethann got it, too, not as severely, but with the bronchitis. On the 17th, we...
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No Lenten Retreat This Year
During Lent, there are a lot of retreats. At The King’s Jubilee, we never retreat. Yes, we go to services and pray and meditate, but we don’t let up in our service to poor and homeless people. Lent is...
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Mount Moriah Cemetery 2013 Events
About a year ago, we started to investigate a relationship with Mount Moriah Cemetery. About the same time, the nonsense with Mayor Nutter’s decrees banning serving the homeless outdoors distracted us....
View ArticleSpring 2013 Report
The new newsletter is available for downloading and printing for inserting in church bulletins, here: http://www.thekingsjubilee.org/spring13.pdf It includes hard copy of these blog entries: No Lenten...
View ArticleImmediate Opportunity for Service
This is an intense week. We are in the middle of helping one man move out of an apartment and into shared housing to avoid living on the street. We helped with the Communaute Positive banquet, for last...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Step Up!
Tomorrow a faithful member of The King’s Jubilee team, Luann Motel, will be funeralized and buried at St. Philip Antiochian Orthodox Church. She has been making sandwiches for us for many years,...
View ArticleAnother Operation: Clean Start kit delivered
Last night, I loaded up the newly redecorated TKJ-mobile with boxes of various household goods, dishes, groceries, a microwave and a Clean Start kit and set off for the Overbrook section of...
View ArticleIn Crisis Constantly
We are dealing with people in crisis constantly. On Tuesday after Memorial Day, as I was doing my errands, people asked me how my long weekend was. I found the question absurd. I had planned a fun...
View ArticleWhen the money runs out
Last night we had quite a crowd. The line stretched clear across the park. We had plenty of food. We had a large container of turkey vegetable soup, yams and rice, baked ziti with sausage, sandwiches,...
View ArticleJuly 4, 2013 Plan
We are going to do things differently this Thursday since it is a major holiday and the parkway is very busy. Other years we have not gone down on the 4th of July. But our nation has gotten very stingy...
View ArticleServing the Homeless – an Acrostic by Jack Karpinski & Hilary Coulter
Serving the Homeless is not a crime. Endeavoring to own more than a dime Rescue me from eating a sour lime Vexed by mayors greed and grime Imprisoning our souls forever in the city’s pine Nothing in...
View ArticleSpecial Delivery
On Sunday, I delivered our last Operation: Clean Start kit to a man who recently moved off of the street into an apartment. I had brought one down for him on Thursday, but I was unaware that another...
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Our Holiday Picnic
On the 4th of July, we worked our plan. Bethann and I made four loaves of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on whole wheat bread, for a total of 38 sandwiches. One of the Kaminsky’s delivered several...
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“Put a nickel in the drum, save another drunken bum!”
“Put a nickel in the drum, save another drunken bum! Put a nickel in the drum and you’ll be saved!” When I was a youth, this old Salvation Army song was used as a drinking song. But the sentiment of...
View Article“Come and See” Icons, Books & Art is closed
I think it is apparent that I need to close up shop. I have experienced a number of illnesses which caused me to be a poor businessman. This meant I was not able to deliver icons in a timely fashion or...
View ArticleAnother Fun Night in the Park
Deacon Herman and I arrived at the park behind the Galusha Pennypacker statue at about 8pm last night. Fr. Chris, Billy and his wife, Anthony, Stephen, and another volunteer were already there and set...
View Article“Poverty Porn”
Megan Kelley of Upworthy recently coined the term “poverty porn.” I like it. I wish I had come up with it. Here is what she wrote: Too many ads for charities use what I call “poverty porn” to get at...
View ArticleIs this how it ends?
It is becoming apparent to me that this ministry is really not valued by the church. There are a few who are involved and are faithful, but not enough to sustain it and make it effective to really meet...
View ArticleIt Can’t Be Time to Stop!
April and our grandsons helped me make the pot of turkey gumbo and a big roaster pan of beans, rice and zucchini for last night. It was a hardy soup with the meat and broth from a whole roasted turkey,...
View ArticleCoconut, Sweet Potato, Eggplant, Curried Rice
Last night coconut, sweet potato, eggplant, curried rice with quinoa was just one of the dishes we served in the park to an estimated crowd of over two hundred hungry people. Yesterday, I was working...
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