Circo for the Community Rescheduled for March 5

The Circo for the Community fundraiser, originally scheduled for this Saturday, January 23, has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 5.

The performance will benefit the New Mexico Conference of Churches, La Mesa Arts Academy, New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light, and the New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice and the Albuquerque Aerialist Collective. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased on the NMCC site or at the door (you can write a check for any of these organizations). The cost of the ticket includes dinner and a reception.

Thanksgiving Meals for the Homeless Community in Albuquerque

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(Please note: All these sites already have all the volunteers they need. The one location that might need help is La Mesa Presbyterian Church. You can call the church office, 255-8095, and ask: “What can I do to help you out on Thanksgiving Day?)

November 21 (Saturday)  
11:00 am to 3:00 pm -- Chava Trucking Company Thanksgiving Dinner, 409 Clark Road SW (2-1/2 miles south of Rio Bravo off of 2nd Street).

Shuttle service will be provided, beginning at 10:30 am, at St. Martin’s, Good Shepherd Center, Albuquerque Rescue Mission, Project Share, Noon Day, Salvation Army Temple (on Broadway & Lead), and Joy Junction

November 23 (Monday)  

• 6:00-7:00 pm – Pre-Thanksgiving meal at Joy Junction

November 24 (Tuesday)

•  8:00 am to 4:00 pm -- Noon Day is open (showers, laundry and breakfast, but no lunch)
• 11:00 am to 2:00 pm – Albuquerque Rescue Mission’s Thanksgiving meal (no breakfast or dinner that day at ARM)

*****All other sites will have regular schedule*****

November 25 (Wednesday) 

• 8:00 to 11:00 am -- Noon Day is open (showers, laundry and breakfast, but no lunch)
• 11:00 am to 2:00 pm – Joy Junction’s Thanksgiving meal at the Convention Center downtown (you can get free tickets at various shelters for reserved meal times, but no one will be turned away)

*****All other sites will have regular schedule (including HCH)*****

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Thanksgiving Day (Thursday).

• There will be a circle of remembrance, a sunrise gathering in honor of Native peoples (6:25 am sunrise) in the parking lot of the Albuquerque Center for Peace & Justice (Harvard & Silver SE)
• 8:30 to 9:30 am – Thanksgiving brunch at Good Shepherd Center (only meal that day at Good Shepherd)
• 9:00 am – holiday meal at St. Martin’s (hours are 7:00 to 11:00 am on Thanksgiving Day)
• 10:00 am to 2:00 pm –Thanksgiving meal at Salvation Army Temple, 501 Broadway SE (& Lead)
• 11:00 am to 2:00 pm – Thanksgiving meal at La Mesa Presbyterian Church, 7401 Copper NE (north of Central, east of Louisiana)
• 2:00 to 4:00 pm – Thanksgiving dinner at Joy Junction
• 5:00 to 6:00 pm – Thanksgiving dinner at Project Share, 1515 Yale SE (south of Kathryn)
• 5:00 to 6:00 pm – regular dinner at Albuquerque Rescue Mission (no breakfast that day, but opens at 12:30 pm)

    **Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless (HCH) and Noon Day will be closed****

November 27 (Friday) Homeless services: St. Martin’s hours will be open 7-4 with 10:00 am meal only; all other sites (Noon Day, Healthcare for the Homeless (HCH), Good Shepherd Center, Albuquerque Rescue Mission and others) will have regular schedule.

Reminder Circo for the Community Fundraiser this Saturday March 5

Below is the video about the Albuquerque Aerialist Collective, which will be performing at the event (and which is one of the five organizations that benefit from the fundraiser). Tickets are $35 and can be purchased on the NMCC site or at the door (you can write a check for any of these organizations). The cost of the ticket includes dinner and a reception.

Tenderlove Community Center Invites you to Kids Craft Fair on Saturday

The Tenderlove Community Center, an organization that helps homeless, near homeless and low-income women achieve stable, self-supporting lives for themselves and their families, invites you to its Kids Craft Fair on Saturday September 5, 1-5 p,m, at 3600 4th St. NW (map). .Purchase unique kids clothing and other items made by TLCC family.

Creating a More Just and Equitable Community

"Interfaith work is the patient commitment to reweaving the relational ties that constitute our communal life to create a more just and equitable community. The touchstone of this work, for me, is founded in stories of Christ crossing dangerous boundaries to heal social ills. I believe that multireligious collaboration can correct injustices in our society and, in turn, draw us deeper into our own faith traditions.”

-Aaron Stauffer,
Executive Director of Religions for Peace USA (Read his reflection in Sojourners).