Word: outreaching
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Until this year, few would have picked St. Alban's as a model for schism. Arriving in 1992, Beach transformed an aging, liturgically conservative, 35-member congregation by initiating community-outreach programs and a livelier second Sunday service. Before long, the place was hopping. Attendance topped 200, and grateful Albanites invested in a $1.6 million parish hall and a $100,000 pastor's office. They knew Beach strongly opposed the Robinson elevation--he had conducted "burial rites" for Episcopalianism at the time--but most of them agreed with him and were willing to battle beside him for a denominational reversal...
...President Bush—is being paid with taxpayers’ money. In fact, taxpayer dollars are also funding parallel White House ambassadors to big business, Jewish groups, high-tech companies and others. And while the president’s press secretaries will claim that this sort of outreach strengthens public policy, the line between their government responsibilities and the goals of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign is obviously blurred...
Summers noted yesterday that the University already makes a significant effort with its $25 million outreach fund to recruit female and minority faculty...
...terrible years of 1999 and 2000, Australia's heroin trade was moving at a furious pace. On certain streets across the nation, dealers whispered offers to almost anyone who walked past, and sales were made on footpaths with nonchalant ease. "It was the height of the madness," recalls Melbourne outreach worker Richard Tregear. The drug was everywhere, and as purity rose so did the risk of a fatal overdose. In Melbourne, paramedics like Lindsay Bent were frantic. During those "crazy couple of years," Bent says, it wasn't unusual to treat 18 overdoses in a day in the cbd alone...
...grim but secluded dead-end alley. The spot is a favorite with local addicts, whose used syringes litter the ground. Tregear and his colleagues help some of them into treatment, despite long waiting lists, and then back to school or work. In the past six months, the outreach team has counted about 70 new users in the area. Tregear agrees with predictions that overdose deaths in Victoria will rise again this year, perhaps...