"A new movement of servant-leaders is taking place in our region, transforming our city with actions rather than words" -Randy Skinner

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The Greater Dallas Justice Revival celebrates its two year history with the accomplishment of 25 school-church partnership and 700 chronic homeless placed into permanent supportive housing. To date, 35 school-church partnerships have been formed from 2009-2011, with 2000 chronic homeless placed into supportive housing. The movement continues at two new websites, for school-church partnership and hunger www.feed3.org and for the our work with the homeless at www.homesforourneighbors.com.

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Incredible Results for Justice Revival in 2011

Who would have expected that this year we would have surpassed the major accomplishments in 2010?

In 2011, the Greater Dallas Justice Revival accomplished three major objectives and fourteen projects. We also launched our movement into two major initiatives for the future: FEED 3 and Homes for Our Neighbors.

Major Objective # 1: Played a major role in public policy and faith working with our non-profit partners and city officials to place 2000 chronic homeless into housing by the end of this year (Our goal set in 2009 was 700 chronic homeless!) Our Homes for Our Neighbors partnership with Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance continues to grow stronger.

Major Objective #2: We are a major voice and force in educating the public about the hunger and poverty landscape in our region. Over one million people having viewed our ads campaign on hunger, we launched the FEED 3 campaign as a major pro-business approach to the hunger landscape, and are co-hosted a major Hunger Summit on November 9 with the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign, USDA, and Texas Hunger Initiative.

Major Objective # 3: We are a movement. We provide our city officials, churches, colleges, and seminaries, and thousands of individual Christians, with resources and strategies to help them address the critical issues of homelessness, poverty, challenges in our educational system. We are also a voice on biblical justice in dealing with racism and diversity, urban ministry, youth violence, community transformation, and much more.

Please join our movement to change our city today by volunteering or contributing. Thank you for being a part of a biblical justice movement to change our city. DONATE NOW

Randy H. Skinner
Director of Greater Dallas Justice Revival

Local Schools Provided with Hundreds of Coats – Jan -Feb

Nearly 400 students received brand new coats from donations received at Greater Dallas Justice Revival (GDJR). Local DISD schools receiving coats were Charles Rice Learning Center, Urban Park Elementary, and Pinkston High School. Additional coats were distributed to local non profits working with troubled teens. Other accessories were provided as well such hundreds of hats and gloves for the winter season.  The children received coats during the 2010 and 2011 winter season and attend schools where 93% of the families live in poverty

Super Bowl Outreach and Sexual Trafficking Report - Feb

The Greater Dallas Justice Revival joined other organizations in the metroplex to bring awareness to sex trafficking that touches over 3,000 girls annually in the DFW area. While the weather affected a planned outreach rally at Morningside Chapel near Sundance Square, local youth and adults did share informational tracts with visitors. Law enforcement credited the aggressive outreach by local non profits, churches and weather as the reason sex trafficking had a historic drop during the Super Bowl week.

South Dallas “Poverty Tour” and DMN story on Children - Mar

A three hour tour hosted by the GDJR brought awareness to spiritual leaders, and to the general public after the JR worked with the Dallas Morning News writer Kim Horner about the blight of South Dallas and the more than 1,000 children who sleep on floors, many without electricity and with little food. The DMN story helped bring in more than $22,000 to the SM Wright foundation for mattresses.

 

“Faith and Public Policy” Forum for Mayoral Candidates – Apr

The Dallas Mayoral candidates appeared at the first “Faith and Public” Policy forum, on April 25, 2011, sponsored by the Greater Dallas Justice Revival. The event was filmed by award winning YouPlusMedia and hosted by nationally recognized talk show host Mark Davis of WBAP.  Davis, who won awards from the Texas Associated Press and Dallas Press Club, helped make a lively discussion assisted by a panel of experts that questioned the candidates about faith, hunger, poverty, homelessness and schools.

Hundreds of Youth Tackle Inner City Poverty – July-Aug

Hundreds of inner city youth from Iowa, Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Texas tackled impoverished areas of West Dallas, Oak Cliff, and Fair Park in a three week blitz. The campaign was in partnership with Greater Dallas Justice Revival and Passport Youth Ministries of Atlanta, Georgia. The projects include painting and repairing four damaged churches that have historic significance in low income communities. Other projects include repairing senior citizens homes out of code compliance, building a new deck at the Jacob House men's home, and landscaping for elderly and first time homeowners.

The three week events during the summer months of July and early August were applauded by numerous local pastors and non-profits.

Inner City Camp w/NFL Coaches- Jubilee Community - Aug

The 2nd Annual "Day of Champions" football camp touched over 150 inner city students this summer. The camp was run by Josh Heupel's 14 Foundation. Coach Heupel was the quarterback when the University of Oklahoma won the National Championship and is now the quarterback coach for the University of Oklahoma.

The three day camp focused on strength training with 10 training stations dealing with improved skills, quickness, and body positioning. Players will work with some of the top coaches on their skills and positions they play. In addition to the physical training, they were educated on proper nutrition, diabetes, and health issues. Attendees heard lectures on academic skills, character and ethics.

Heat Wave Impacts Poor Families &
FEED 3 Hunger Sites

The summer heat wave took its greatest toll on senior citizens and young children especially in poor communities. The triple-digit heat claimed over sixteen lives in the area, and threatened many more in poor families living without air conditioning.  The GDJR conducted a education campaign for poor families and provided relief for families without air conditioning as funds allowed.

Non-profits were hit with excessive electrical bills, and the costs impacted the two hunger sites started by the FEED 3 outreach programs that touch nearly 1,000 families each month with supplemental groceries.  The Greater Dallas Justice Revival continued to work with two sites in West Dallas and began working on an additional site in Fair Park.  Additional families received turkeys and groceries during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

 

DHA & MDHA Partners-Good Neighbors Project at Cliff Manor

When the City of Dallas planned to place 50 chronic homeless who had been through a year program of recovery into housing at the Dallas Housing Authority property of Cliff Manor, it received major opposition from the local community.

Local Dallas Housing Authority (DHA), MDHA (Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance) officials and Mayor Tom Leppert asked for Greater Dallas Justice Revival Director Randy Skinner to help build community support. Working with the West Dallas/Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce Vice President Randall White, Dallas Baptist Association, and local churches in Oak Cliff, a luncheon was held in 2010 at Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Homes for Our Neighbors campaign was officially launched by GDJR to bring partner churches along side of the new move-ins to help them succeed.

A new task force was also formed with DHA and MDHA to help with the new PSH residents at Cliff Manor and the local community. Led by the Chamber of Commerce Randall White, this group was incorporated into a new 501c3 to develop a coffee shop and bookstore at the DHA property of Cliff Manor in Oak Cliff. GDJR Exec. Dir. Randy Skinner serves as a founding board member. This was a major victory in winning over the local community that was originally opposed to PSH.

Cliff Temple Baptist Church continued to work with the residents and developed a community garden on site, conducted outreach site visits and bible studies. The Episcopal Diocese partnered with GDJR in its outreach in East Dallas with PSH residents in Lake Highlands working with Councilman Jerry Allen.

Photo or Randy Skinner with local Cliff Manor residents in article by Dallas Observer

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Youth Summit – Aug

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson  annual youth summit at SMU  was held  with guest speakers Dallas Mayor  Mike Rawlings, CNN Hero Shamsah Dhala, Randy Skinner of Greater Dallas Justice Revival, and Holly Hirshberg of The Dinner Garden movement.  The focus of this year’s youth summit was on hunger.

The annual summit brings together youth leaders from across the Dallas-Ft. Worth region who excel in leadership, school and community engagement and social service.

Three workshops were held in the daylong event which included teaching students about the current hunger crisis in South Dallas, growing food in their own backyard, and how to create social change in impoverished communities. Three weeks later the students were involved in a service project located at an Oak Cliff community garden.

Newly elected Mike Rawlings challenged the students to use their influence to change the culture around them,  CNN Hero Shamash Dhala shared how students could help change the poverty landscape in other nations, while Greater Dallas Justice Revival (GDJR) Director Randy Skinner shared how as servant leaders, the students  could change the hunger landscape of Dallas.

GDJR and Cliff Temple Baptist Church of Oak Cliff hosted the students for a work day project which included working in a local community garden and learning from Master Gardener and Ecological Anthropologist Dr. Don Lambert. PhD.

Hunger Media Campaign

In a partnership with Reynolds Outdoor Media, forty kiosks as available throughout downtown Dallas educated viewers in 2010 and 2011 with a poster depicting a child with a message on hunger and homelessness. An additional three electronic billboards have focused on hunger reaching over one million viewers. The campaign will continue for FEED 3 and Homes for Our Neighbors into 2012. The GDJR is also working with other media PR firms to expand the important message of child hunger.

 

 

Urgent Report: Fire Sweeps Apartments Displacing 100 residents - Sept-Oct

Over one hundred residents at Northwest Crossing Apartments, mostly children and teenagers were left homeless after a four-alarm fire destroyed 28 apartment complexes. The residents were woken during the early morning hours after a small child told his mother about smoke coming from the adjoining apartment units.

The fire spread rapidly, leaving the apartment units completely destroyed, with residents losing all their possessions. DISD officials learned of the apartment fire from students attending school without their school uniforms, books, and other clothing. School officials informed the Greater Dallas Justice Revival  (GDJR) of the crisis, after the Red Cross was unable to respond and assist.

The GDJR is currently coordinating churches to adopt the 28 families.

New Partnership with Good Night Sleep Foundation, MDHA, and Homes for Our Neighbors provides beds for families

A Good Night Sleep (AGNS), a nonprofit organization based in California, will be providing beds for 50 families at one of our project-based Permanent Supportive Housing SH sites (Bay at Mandalay Apartments).  AGNS’s generous donation is a collaborative effort working with Greater Dallas Justice Revival (Homes for Our Neighbors),  Sleep Experts (local retailer providing 20 twin bed mattresses), Family Gateway (the service provider), and Ladies of Charity (provider of household items).  Volunteers from SMU, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, Dallas Housing Authority, and other service organizations will work to unload and place the beds and household items in the apartments on November 3. A Good Night Sleep foundation executive director Josh Helland is a SMU graduate and former Dallas resident.

Hunger Summit Held November 9 at Farmers Market

A major summit on the “hunger landscape” of North Texas was held by major players on the hunger front November 9. Participants included USDA, Texas Dept. of Agriculture, Texas Food Bank Network, Texas Baptists, FEED 3, CitySquare, and the USDA Office of Faith Based Initiatives. Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson helped coordinate the event and shared throughout the summit.

The event was the result of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson viewing a video by FEED 3 about the vast hunger challenges and food deserts in the Greater Dallas area. More than 200 leaders gathered for the event which will included local business leaders to help solve the challenges facing impoverished communities.

A “Food Planning Association” will be one of the results of the event, which will include representatives from non profits, government, and local business to help end hunger by 2015. The event is also a new partnership with the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign launched this year. More than 280,000 children in the Greater Dallas area suffer from hunger. The program included Mayor Mike Rawlings as speaker and was held from 9am to 12 noon at the Farmers Market event center. County Judge Clay Jenkins also shared at the event.

Christmas Outreach in Fair Park Distributed over $50,000 Worth of Toys

More than 10 pallets of toys valued at over $50,000 were distributed December 17 throughout Fair Park area to hundreds of families during the Christmas season. True Lee Missionary Baptist Church served as center stage for area churches located in South Dallas participating during their annual Christmas toy give-away. The toys were a gift to FEED 3/Greater Dallas Justice Revival by an anonymous donor. Volunteer efforts were led by Breakdown Ministries, a partnership based mission group of young adults, who played games with children, handed out gifts, and distributed toys. The annual church service was led by Pastor Don Parrish with special guest speaker
Ron Woodcock.

Please consider giving to our organization to further impact and bring transformation to our region. We need your help to continue bringing critical food and emergency supplies to suffering areas of our city. We have been guaranteed over one million pounds of food product each month if we can guarantee our ability to store, transport, and sustain the quality of the food product (refrigeration). Your donation can help us accomplish more in 2012 through the FEED 3 and Homes for Our Neighbors campaign.

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You can send your contribution by mail to: Greater Dallas Justice Revival/ c/o Strategic Justice Initiatives P.O. Box 222026, Dallas, Texas 75222. Your gift is tax-deductible.

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NEW STUDY GIVES ALARMING
STATISTICS ON FUTURE OF
DALLAS COUNTY CHILDREN

DALLAS - FEED 3 MEDIA REPORT

A new study on Dallas County impoverished and hungry children follows the recent North Texas Hunger Summit hosted by Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson.

The 2011 Beyond ABC annual report by Children’s Medical Center is the most comprehensive review of the quality of life for area children. It reveals that nearly one-third of Dallas County children live in poverty, an astounding number considering the amount of wealth and resources in the county.

The report parallels the North Texas Hunger Summit report that an alarming 192,502 of the 654,263 children in the county live in hunger and poverty.  The report reveals that the Dallas Cowboys Stadium could be filled twice overflowing and still not account for the number of Dallas County children affected.

The report revealed that 18% of Dallas County children has no private or governmental health insurance in 2010 (double that of the nation’s 8%), that 250,000 county children were on Medicaid, and 60,000 county children were on CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program).

Other alarming statistics revealed that there was a 39% increase in child abuse or neglect, and that an average of 20 children dies each year from abuse or neglect in the county.

The report found some other disturbing facts:

• About 28 percent of Dallas County children - more than 183,000 - have inadequate food and poor nutrition. While children are becoming more malnourished here, they also are becoming overweight. One-third of high school students are estimated to be overweight or obese.

• This year, seven out of every 10 children in public schools are eligible for free- and reduced-price meals, a substantial increase since 2000.

• In 2010, more than 45 percent of babies born in Dallas County were born to mothers who had received inadequate prenatal care. However, the infant mortality rate has been on a consistent decline since 2006.

• More than one-third of Dallas County children were not fully immunized in 2010, according to a National Immunization Survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Dallas County has up to 40 days of unhealthy air quality per year, contributing to asthma in children of all income levels, the report found.

As a part of addressing many of the alarming statistics found in the governmental agencies report at the North Texas Hunger Summit, and found in this newly released report, Mayor Mike Rawlings and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson have established a Food Planning Association for Dallas which will access these challenges and work toward solutions.

Appearing on CBS affiliate CBS 11 TV / TXA 21 TV in Dallas early Monday morning, FEED 3 Executive Director Randy Skinner said: “This is a devastating report that continues to show the vast amount of hunger in the DFW area. With over 192,502 children in Dallas County, that number doubles when we include the 10 counties surrounding Dallas, adding in the 140,000 plus for Tarrant County. This is a hunger and poverty crisis."

FEED 3 is a pro-business approach to eradicating hunger by partnering businesses and local schools to feed children (Feed the Body), character programs in inner city schools to increase graduation rates (Feed the Mind), and developing business solutions for poverty that involve churches, non-profits, and community leaders (Feed the Soul).

EVENT DETAILS FOR REPORT
The Assessing Children's Health in Dallas County symposium will be held at 10 a.m. on Nov. 14, 2011, in Moore Auditorium at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, 1935 Medical District Drive.

For more information on the North Texas Hunger and Health Crisis for children, please visit www.dallasjusticerevival.com and www.feed3.org.

To help end hunger and poverty in our region, please consider a generous donation: Click here:

Information from this news report were compiled from area news sources and Beyond ABC: Assessing Children's Health in Dallas County published by Children’s Medical Center.

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Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings Proclaims Dallas as
“No Kid Hungry City”

DALLAS, Nov. 9, 2011 / GDJR NEWS WIRE

TDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings spoke Wednesday to the North Texas Hunger Summit declaring that Dallas would become a “No Kid Hungry City” and a Food Planning Association would accomplish this goal.

The summit was hosted by 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson who moved to action after viewing a local non-profit video on hunger.

The video created by FEED 3, a local educational nonprofit focused on addressing hunger and poverty in North Texas, revealed that over 380,000 North Texas children are challenged with hunger. The summit held at the Dallas Farmers Market, included governmental agencies, non-profits, local community food pantries, and business leaders.

Congresswoman Johnson shared passionately her desire to end hunger in the 30th District where some of the most impoverished counties of Texas exist. Determined to follow through on her commitment, Johnson's staff worked over the past nine months with local non profits to assist in launching a Food Planning Association. Local organizations such as CitySquare, a leading nonprofit that addresses hunger with families and children, FEED 3, North Texas Food Bank, DISD, USDA, Greater Dallas Justice Revival, Texas Baptist, and local food pantries are key partners in forming the local food planning association.

The Food Planning Association (FPA) will take a close look at where child hunger needs are greatest in the area, and will then work to implement programs there. Some of the key objectives will be to ensure the delivery of $500 million in federal dollars to local impoverished neighborhoods, increase enrollment of children in school breakfast, lunch and summer feeding programs, development of local neighborhood nonprofit and church food pantries, construction of grocery stores in “food deserts”, and the development of community gardens and healthy lifestyles.

Also involved in the North Texas Hunger Summit was the Texas Hunger Initiative. "Kids who face hunger fall behind in virtually every way, and the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign seeks to connect children at risk of hunger to programs that can provide regular, nutritious meals," Jeremy Everett, director of the Texas Hunger Initiative, said.

"Child hunger is a serious issue in Dallas and surrounding communities, but the good news is that we have the resources to solve it," Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson said. "The group of talented and strategic partners at this hunger summit is dedicated and will help ensure our children are fed three meals a day, every day."

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, said.”We have the necessary programs funded and in place to make certain that every child in Dallas receives the food they need to excel in and out of the classroom. By working together, we can guarantee easy access to these programs for those most in need—our children at risk of hunger."

“We are determined that Dallas will not be the face of Hunger,” FEED 3 Director Randy Skinner said. Skinner, who was appointed by former Mayor Tom Leppert to help end hunger in Dallas by 2015, continues to work with Mayor Mike Rawlings in that role. “We are blessed to have public leaders like Congresswoman Johnson and Mayor Rawlings who have dedicated their lives to making Dallas a great city for future leaders, our children”.

For more information on how you can become involved in making Dallas a “No Kid Hungry City” please contact us at: www.feed3.org

Related Links: www.dallasjusticerevival.com
www.citysquare.org
www.baylor.edu/texashunger
www.Strength.org

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Incredible Results for Justice Revival in 2011

Who would have expected that this year we would have surpassed the major accomplishments in 2010?

In 2011, the Greater Dallas Justice Revival accomplished three major objectives and thirteen projects.

Major Objective # 1: Played a major role in public policy and faith working with our non-profit partners and city officials to place 1,090 chronic homeless into housing by the end of this year (Our goal set in 2009 was 700 chronic homeless!) Our Homes for Our Neighbors partnership with Dallas Housing Authority and Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance continues to grow stronger.

Major Objective #2: We are a major voice and force in educating the public about the hunger and poverty landscape in our region. Over one million people having viewed our ads campaign on hunger, we launched the FEED 3 campaign as a major pro-business approach to the hunger landscape, and are co-hosting a major Hunger Summit on November 9 with the Texas No Kid Hungry Campaign, USDA, and Texas Hunger Initiative.

Major Objective # 3: We are a movement. We provide our city officials, churches, colleges, and seminaries, and thousands of individual Christians, with resources and strategies to help them address the critical issues of homelessness, poverty, challenges in our educational system. We are also a voice on biblical justice in dealing with racism and diversity, urban ministry, youth violence, community transformation, and much more.

Please see the thirteen projects that helped change our city, click on the Annual Report for 2011.

Please join our movement to change our city today by volunteering or contributing. Thank you for being a part of a biblical justice movement to change our city. DONATE NOW

Randy H. Skinner
Director of Greater Dallas Justice Revival

Click here for the entire 2011 Annual Report

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Our Commitment to the Homeless of our City

The Justice Revival is committed to serve the servant-leaders in our city who have been at the forefront of being an answer to the challenges of the more than 5,000 homeless citizens of our city. We commend the numerous individuals and organizations who have been answering the call to be the hands and face of Jesus Christ to the homeless.

We commit our spiritual influence to communicate to our cities political leaders, civic leaders, and business leaders the gospel message as it relates to this issue. How we care for the “least of these” in our city, is a reflection of the character and condition of the “soul of our city.”

The Justice Revival will work to facilitate and sponsor neighborhood engagement on this issues related to homelessness. We will work to educate the public that twenty percent of the homeless include veterans who have fought for our rights as citizens. We will remind the public that forty-seven percent of the homeless are women and children, and that 1,850 new people were homeless for the first time this year due to the recession.

The Justice Revival will work closely with our city leaders to make sure that they are encouraged and supported in the accomplishment of the task force goals and objectives. This would include keeping an open conversation with council members, neighborhood association leaders, nonprofit leaders, etc.

As a part of our commitment to end homelessness, we have partnered with the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance and the Dallas Housing Authority in our “Home for our Neighbors” campaign to support the placement of the chronic homeless into long term housing with a support system (Permanent Supportive Housing).

For more information, please click here.

Our Commitment to the Inner City Schools of Our Community

The Greater Dallas Justice Revival is committed to the success of our inner city school systems which face great challenges. While school leaders are doing their best to treat the symptoms of these issues, they may lack the tools to adequately address the root causes of the problem, which are found in a lack of character development, lack of caring mentors, and physical, emotional and mental challenges.

A Justice Revival education initiative will allow churches and faith-based organizations to utilize existing resources to build strong advocacy relationships with selected Dallas area schools and work together with these schools to positively impact the lives of students. In doing so, these churches and organizations will establish long-term relationships that will benefit students, teachers, and administrators and allow for the core missions of the churches and organizations to be fulfilled. Such a reach will build bridges economically, socially, geographically and spiritually that will unite the Dallas community.

Currently, more than 100 schools are targeted for our outreach and to date; more than 10,000 children have been touched through assemblies, character development programs, and feeding programs.

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