AIDS Walk and Ride 2008: Report

Hey everyone,
We just wanted to say "thank-you" for your support for us and the Aids Alliance and their annual Aids Walk and Ride.Your donations and support allowed us to take a team and walk 3 miles through downtown Raleigh in support of Aids awareness and the organizations that work with those living with HIV/AIDS. This is a fantastic organization, and it is a privilege to participate in this wonderful event.

In total, we raised $340 for the Aids Alliance and their work. I haven't found the total amount raised at the event yet, nor the total number of participants, but I know it was a very successful event. I am just proud of those who walked and those who gave in support of this worthy, often ignored cause. I am proud of the number that we raised, and have each person to thank, as well as the change jar from the Divine Conversations group! I hope each of you celebrate with me in this fantastic event and celebrate the part that you played.Thanks again from Alison and myself, as well as everyone involved both physically (walking) and financially (giving).

with much love,
Justin
http://www.camelbo.blogspot.com/

UPDATE: part of an email about the event:
Our event was a great success, with more than 700 walkers and 150 riders. We had balloons, snow cones, llamas, hot dogs and so much more! We will report on our fund-raising when we finish the accounting. I hope you will join us on May 2, 2009 to do it all again on Halifax Mall! We are always looking for volunteers to plan and create this event, and for volunteers on the day we put it all together, so if you have interest please let us know!
Until next time, and with my great thanks for your warm and generous hearts!

Jacquelyn Clymore,
MSExecutive Director
Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina

Questions On Suffering, Evil, Love and Justice

Possible topic this week as we look into recent headlines. The timeless questions on suffering, evil, death, war, Love, humanity, justice, etc... Here may be some starting points in the news recently.

Shooting of a gay middle-schooler by another middle-schooler.


A BETTER Video is found here on CNN.

Eve Carson's death, Student Body President for UNC.


Lauren Burk, 18, was found shot on a side road, and her car was found burning in an Auburn University parking lot.


See full story of both here!!

And of course we can't ignore the War in Iraq: From REAL NEWS

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Also don't forget the Questions project mentioned last post, and we are beginning the random change jar back up. If you have any place you would want our random change to go to in the next month or so, we are taking requests now!!!!

see you Thurs, or on the blog discussion!

A Questionable Project?

We want to begin a new activity in our discussion process. But we need your help!

What spiritual questions do you have in your own life?

these thoughts need to be heard, although we won't "Answer" them, perhaps we can spend some time discussing them. We are going to begin collecting these questions this week. Your job is simple. Start writing down ANY questions or doubts that you may have and we will have something to place them in this week. This will be an ongoing activity, and all questions will remain anonymous! All questions are valid and will be treated with respect!

I truly have missed you all and hope to see you this thursday@ 7:30. We will prob. go grab dinner after and anyone is invited to join us!

contact me for more info or questions!
on facebook or at divineconversations@gmail.com

peace and love.
Justin

Meeting Again (Finally) This Week!!!

We apolojize for the delay in getting restarted after the holidays. We ran into some slight problems with our usual location. The good news is that we will begin meeting again on the 21st of Feb. Many people mentioned that thurs. nights would be better for them than wed., so we are moving to thurs. nights.

We are also moving locations. we will still be in holly springs about a mile or so from our previous coffee house spot. we will still meet from 7:30-8:30, so please try to get there before 7:30 so you can have your order filled and we can begin on time. Our new location is called Southern Roast Coffee. It is beside the Moravian Ch. in Holly Springs. Here's the website with address and you can get directions.

http://southernroast.com/

Thanks for your patience, and again we apolojize for the problems. But we are excited to get going again and perhaps have some new people join us as we continue to discuss where our spirituality meets reality!

INFO UPDATE

Hey all,
hope you guys had a wonderful holiday season.

Just wanted to let you all know that we will not be meeting this week (wed. Jan 9). We have run into a couple of issues with our location that we are trying to solve. We will get back together soon even if it happens in the basement of a house!!! Our conversations will get back on track soon.

In addition, we are looking at moving our meeting nights to Thursdays instead of Wed. Several people have mentioned that this would be a better day for them. Please leave some feedback on that idea!

Stay tuned, and we'll keep you updated on what's going on. Thanks for your patience and we can't wait to see everyone again.

Peace and Love,
admin

Announcement: Thanksgiving and Christmas

We aren't meeting this week!!!!
But will be back on the 28th! Recap is below from last week and feel free to add your thoughts on there someone mentioned continuing that conversation on the 28th, but that's up to you guys if we stay on that topic. I think that it was stated that we would like to get more of your thoughts from those that couldn't be there!

We talked this past week about having a Christmas/holiday get together before all the college students had to go home. We will continue to meet in Dec. and those that return home can keep up with us on line! We talked about having instead of like a Random Gift Exchange Party (some of us are broke and jobless...yes, me!) but instead having a Random CHANGE Party. We can host it at our place, but the idea is to begin collecting random change and bring that to the party instead of a gift. We will have food and fun stuff going on, but will collect All of the change and decide that night one place/orginization/charity/w/e to send it all to! It's our gift to each other...giving back to our world! So, if you have a suggestion of an orginization print up some info and bring it that night!

We're looking at Dec. 5th. we need some feedback on that since we don't know exam schedules and such! Let us know, I'll post the info as soon as we decide. All are invited. Email us if you have any questions!

PLEASE NOTE

We will not be meeting this week due to this Wed. falling on Halloween. We will pick up again Next Wed.!

At that time we will continue our discussion o World Religions. Until then, if you want to comment, Please feel free to continue that conversation in the comments section of the last post!


Thanks, and have a safe Halloween!

admin