Posted on April 12, 2010 at 11:09am.
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My wife sent me a link to an article in the Charlotte Observer yesterday about Jim Noble and his work/ministry in Charlotte. What a great story! I’ve pasted a short excerpt below, but please click the link to read the entire story.
He also is one of Charlotte’s busiest restaurateurs. This week, he will open his third in the city, a nonprofit uptown venture called King’s Kitchen. Later this year, he’ll launch an uptown version of the popular casual SouthPark restaurant Rooster’s, and he wants to move the franchise, Noble’s, to a new SouthPark or Myers Park location.
The chefs in the back - Joe Kindred and Ben Philpott of Rooster’s - will tell you that their boss is always driven, always doing. Away from the restaurants, he is an ordained minister with a weekly radio show. The restaurants are part of the ministry, and King’s Kitchen, when it opens, will staff troubled youth, recovering addicts and others who are struggling.
“That,” says Noble, “is what we’re called to do.”
Food for the soul.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/04/11/1369882/food-for-the-soul.html#ixzz0ku3BX4nD
Posted on April 3, 2010 at 6:13pm.
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Please find below an excerpt of a blog post from new CAC Supported Missionaries Brian and Jami Staples. Please pray for them during this time of transition.
When we’re uncomfortable, we tend to think of the last place we found bliss. And if we’re honest, we compare the horrors of the moment with the comforts of that lost heaven. Which begs this question: when hanging on the cross, what was the “bliss” Jesus recalled?
This morning I was taking my boys to their last day of preschool and, since they were content playing airplanes in the back, I was pondering and praying over what to write for this post. Blaming stress and lack of sleep I conceded to writers block and decided to go fishing in the think tank known as my 5 year old.
“Isaac,” I said, interrupting the greatest landing any 3 inch 747 has ever made, “how ya feelin’ today about moving to Africa”?
“Sad”.
Please read the whole post by clicking here.
To learn more about the Staples ministry in Africa and learn how you can pray for them, please visit The Envoy Group at http://www.envoygroup.org
To keep updated with their blog (which I highly recommend) click here.
God Bless,
RJ
Posted on April 1, 2010 at 1:44pm.
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The CAC Haiti Team is in the home stretch and will be coming home tomorrow. Below you can find an update from Dave Ralston-thanks Dave!
We had a very full day of work at two different sites. First was an orphanage where our team began construction of a school room for the kids. This orphanage housed approximately 85 children including about 10 infants. Their housing consisted of unicef tents and two larger tents for the kitchen and provisions. The facility was run by two Americans and a number of volunteer Americans in their twenties. The children seemed well fed, we ate with them a meal of “soy rice” and water.
We were struck by the complete devotion of the folks working to care for the children. Conditions were poor but everyone seemed to value their work. The orphanage used to have a building for the children but it was destroyed by the quake. The two running the facility were literally on the side of the road after the quake with all the kids. Volunteers from the Canadian Army helped get their tent city up and running after the director was able to locate a vacant piece of property.
The afternoon we returned to Marsael where we continued to work on the the communities only laterine. None of us know if the community will value the facility and manage the compost but our coordinator at the EFree house sees it as an experiement, The members of the community have worked along side of us and they seemed skilled in the basic skills of masonary. We are developing freiendships with some of the workers and many of the children. I can not tell you the number of times they have ask when are you leaving and when will you return. I believe they long for lasting relationships with someone that will help them improve their lifestyles. The people are very polite and jovial and seem to have a good understanding of different languages, ie Creole, Spanish, French and some English.
We each have worked very hard but do not want to leave without finishing our two projects. Tommorow will be a very full day and we plan to start work at 7am and work til dark. The heat is brutal and today it was 97 with high humidity. We are beat but being fed well at the compound where we all crash each evening at about 9pm. God has us here for a reason. We are doing a little good for our Haitian friends but the images we are seeing and the people we are meeting are no doubt going to have lasting impacts upon all of us. Seeing Kevin Donnalley a former NFL player play with the children is a hoot. Craig Jones continues to capture a number of great pictures and Bill Deuink and John Pitts are true work machines.
It is a true blessing to be here!
More Pictures-thanks Craig!
Dave Ralston helping to sift sand for cement.
Bill Deuink playing Frisbee with local kids.
