More than 7,000 attend May 1st Concert that will feed thousands of kids this summer!
More than 7,000 attended the May 1, 2010, concert with Grammy Award winning artists Toby Mac, Casting Crowns, 10th Ave North, and Caleb in Grand Prairie, Texas. The event was for raising awareness among the local community about the more than 400,000 children in Dallas County and 170,000 children in Tarrant County who face a hunger crisis this summer.
Over 2500 pack backs were distributed among attendees, who were asked to take boxes of 25 back packs each, to their church, non-profit, business, and/or families, accepting the challenge to fill the back packs with nutritional items. These back packs will be distributed to local schools and non profits who are not part of the North Texas Food Bank extensive back pack program due to a shortage of funds.
The event sponsored by radio station KLTY and Twenty Ten Mission, is the first of future partnerships with major artists in the Christian, Country, and Pop entertainment fields, that the Greater Dallas Justice Revival will hopefully utilize the public on the current hunger crisis.
If you or your organization is interested in being a part of a similar outreach for this summer, please click here to download a list of instructions.
City Leaders Justice Revival Breakfast - Activate 2010!
It’s here! The launch of our school-church partnership and homeless-church partnership.
Come join church leaders from across the Dallas metroplex to hear how the Justice Revival is taking action for 2010 in the areas of education and housing
Special Guest Speaker
Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano
WHERE: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church
5100 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206
WHEN: March 11, 2010 | TIME: 9:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.
*PLEASE RSVP to Junie Harrison at JunieHarrison@aol.com or phone number: 214-549-1759
by MARCH 6th, 2010
Special Attendees: Church Leaders, DISD School Principals and Administration, Church Partnerships, Non-profit organizations, Texas Hunger Initiative, Heart of a Champion, World Vision, Homeless Alliance
We gathered by the thousands in November 2009 to express our heart for our city schools and chronic homelessness. Now it’s time to act! Join our city leaders, religious leaders, and non-profit community in hearing our new executive director and partners on how our city is changing. RSVP today and bring a friend to join in this movement.
You will also meet our new director and assistant director of the Justice Revival, Randy Skinner and Junie Harrison. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to be in the forefront of our city changing.
Go and Be May 1-2, 2010
The Justice Revival is in partnership with a new exciting movement in Dallas called Go and Be. It is a group of congregations coming together to bring heaven to earth. The launch day is May 1-2, 2010. How does it work? Churches individually plan and organize one or two days of service projects over the weekend of May 1 and 2, 2010. Churches may choose to cancel services on Sunday (and Saturday night if you have them) and in place of those services do acts of service. Or a church may choose to do service projects on Saturday and share the results in Sunday services.
Go and Be believes that having God’s people serving across the city on the same day, will speak a powerful message to our region. Those churches involved are Bent Tree Bible Church, Chase Oaks, First Baptist McKinney, Irving Bible Church, McKinney Fellowship Bible Church, Oak Cliff Bible Church, Park Cities Baptist Church, Spring Creek Community Church, The Heights Baptist Church, United Christian Church, Watermark Church, Woodcreek Church and World Vision.
For a list of service projects and how to be a part of this movement, visit their website.
Go and Be Volunteer Training for Outreach Projects
February 02, 2010 | Information Meeting, 7 pm at Oak Cliff Bible
February 11, 2010 | Information Meeting, 3 pm at Chase Oaks
Some of the events related to the Dallas Justice Revival
The Xperiene NBA All Star Week February 8-11, 2010
The Xperience All Star Week was created by former NBA All-Star Athlete and current Assistant to the President of the New York Knicks, Allan Houston. The focus leaves positive impressions within the Dallas community, and the key areas are:
1. Defining Healthy Lifestyles through activities focused on Mind, Body and Spirit.
2. Encouraging Youths to make Healthy Lifestyle choices, and
3. Celebrating strong Foundations of Fatherhood.
The events are being held are:
School Outreach “Planting Seeds of Hope” Monday, February 8th – 11th (each day)
Time: 7:30 am- 3:00 pm
Location: Local schools and youth facilities throughout the DFW area
Professional athletes and celebrities will give testimonials, messages of hope and words encouraging youth to make positive choices. Each student attending the assembly will leave with signed sports memorabilia. There will be approximately 32-40 school assemblies throughout the week.
The Allan Houston Legacy Foundation &
Dwight D. Howard Foundation’s Saturday,
February 13th
“Father Knows Best Initiative”
Saturday, February 13th
Time: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location: SMU –Moody Coliseum – 6024 Airline Road, Dallas, Texas
“Mini Father Knows Best Basketball Clinic/Panel Discussion & Celebrity Basketball Game”
Dallas parents and children will learn what it takes to become leaders in their communities on and off the court. The “Father Knows Best” mini basketball clinic will be hosted by Allen Houston and co-hosted by Dwight Howard. The objective is to inspire and provide father-sons & daughters and mentor-mentees opportunities to strengthen their relationships through high-powered basketball and dynamic panel discussion. The panel discussion will include celebrity Fathers and Mentor pairs that will share their personal relationship experiences. Following the clinic will be a celebrity fun filled basketball game produced by the International Children’s Support Foundation (ICF). The game will be hosted by former NBA TV personality Joumanna Kidd and current NFL and ICF athlete David Tyree. Student’s and celebrities will be paired on teams competing for bragging rights on the court!
Church and School Partnerships
Church-School partnerships give you an opportunity to become involved with individual schools as an individual, church, non-profit, community group, university or business. The church listed serves as a lead volunteer organization to assist in the assessment of where you and/or your organization can best serve. Click here to learn more about Church and School Partnerships:
One Heart Day™
The purpose of the One Heart is a concept that is designed to strengthen communities. It is a focused attempt to provide a vehicle for people to demonstrate compassion and kindness on a broad and collective basis. The effort is not limited to a particular demographic, socioeconomic, ideological, religious or geographic category, but is designed to impact everyone.
One Heart Day(s)™ is designed to be implemented by individuals and groups of all types. The target of these groups will be seeking areas within their communities with the greatest need. The overriding idea is that demonstrating kindness is not expensive, but a deliberate action to someone who may or may not be deserving. It is an unselfish act that has the power to bring people together.
One Heart Day™ partnership with the Justice Revival that will be used as a way to provide awareness, community resources, services ideas, kindness ideas, a place for registered users from over 1,000 churches to post community needs, strategies and a social service networking outlet for those who are serving to post comments and stories of impact. Click here to learn more about One Heart Day™ campaign:
Church and Homless Partnerships
Church-Homeless partnerships give you an opportunity to become an advocate for placing 700 chronically homeless into housing. You can assist by volunteering as an individual, church, non-profit or community group to encourage our city council to follow through on their commitment to this cause.
You may also wish to become part of the larger community to walk beside those seeking freedom from homelessness, by assisting in provisions for their new homes. Click here to learn more about Church and Homeless Partnerships.