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CAIN – Churches Active In Northside – is joyful to announce the public launch and celebration of the Annette Liebing Hospitality House, “Annette’s Place.” Annette’s Place is a campus expansion of CAIN that will significantly enhance CAIN’s efforts to meet the needs of Northside residents. Join with neighbors on July 3rd at 2pm to celebrate the transformations Annette’s Place will bring to Northside. Tour the space, see renovation plans, and enjoy and the unique, vibrant community of Northside. #caincares #45223
I am so glad that C.A.I.N. (churches active in northside) allowed me to volunteer, and participate in the Cincinnati Hunger Walk 5K. It was a rainy Memorial ...
Hunger Walk 2015 - A day in the life of our veggies - thanks to talented Northside resident Ben Walker II!
Join our award-winning faith-based community non-profit organization providing food and shelter! CAIN is seeking a professional, self-motivated and dedicated development coordinator to manage and organize fundraising events and in-kind donation drives; assist in donor management; and provide administrative support for grant seeking and reporting.
Position Description Title: Development Coordinator (DC)
Purpose: In accordance with CAIN Mission, Values, and Vision, and in collaboration with CAIN Executive Director, the Development Coordinator conducts activities to garner financial and in-kind donation support for ministry and core programs, events and projects throughout the year.
Accountability: The Development Coordinator is accountable to the Board of Trustees and Reports to Executive Director
Responsibilities: • Provide primary staff support to CAIN External Affairs Committee to meet fundraising goals of annual Party with a Purpose Campaign, Freestore Foodbank Memorial Day Hunger Walk, Kroger Community Rewards and other events and opportunities as identified • Coordinate annual Secret Angel Shop donation efforts • Actively recruit and secure schools, churches, business and other groups to do collection drives of needed items (personal care, toilet paper, kitchen ware, etc.) • Maintain Donor Database (GiftWorks) • Assist with end of year appeal and other donor cultivation efforts throughout the year • Support Management in the creation of solicitation materials, grant proposals and reports • Assist with Social media campaigns • Attend monthly Board, Committee, and staff meetings as requested
Qualifications: • Self-directed with strong interpersonal skills; able to cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders • Commitment to and daily execution of Christian ministry and CAIN Mission, Values, and Vision • Ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines concurrently, excellent attention to detail and ability to keep accurate records and work with minimal direction • Excellent written and oral communication skills; able to compose marketing material and funding requests • Associate’s degree in a relevant field required; experience in non-profit resource development, philanthropy or grant writing preferred • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher) • Organizational social media experience preferred • Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends as needed
Time: Year-round position, part-time (average 80 hours monthly), hourly, non-exempt Evaluation: Annual written review Compensation: Salary commensurate with experience CAIN is an Equal Opportunity Employer
TO APPLY: Send
1) one page cover letter stating why you would like to be part of CAIN’s ministry team and highlighting relevant experience and hourly salary requirements
2) resume
3) sample of fundraising event or appeal and
4) one personal and two professional references
by July 15, 2015 to:
MiMi Chamberlin, CAIN Executive Director, CAIN, 4230 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45223 or [email protected] NO Phone calls or emails please.
There's No Place Like CAIN Recently, I had the opportunity to take a week off and go to visit my hometown on the East Coast. Whenever one takes a break from something, one always is able to come back to it with clearer eyes and renewed vigor. Such it was for me at the food pantry last Tuesday when I returned after my week away. I spent most of my visit with family talking about CAIN and the wonderful things happening here. I then found myself excited to return and dive back into work. I can't believe how appreciative and generous our guests are. Things like a guest bringing by bags of baby food she wasn't going to use just speak to the love present among our CAIN community. She saw a need, and went out of her way to help others. The guests and volunteers who come into CAIN astound me with their good will.
I have never taken it for granted, but getting away from that nurturing environment reminded me of how unique CAIN is in the world. One story speaks to me of how our community rallies together. We had a gentlemen who was mugged and has his paycheck stolen. He had broken bones, no food, and no transportation. He walked to the food pantry to get food. We were able to provide him with food, a bus card, a referral to get his ID replaced, and much prayer and hugs (albeit gentle, since his ribs were cracked!) The joy on his face when he realized that humanity is not just capable of evil acts like stealing a vulnerable person's money, but also loving acts, like caring for someone in their neediest moments. Thank you, CAIN Family, for the gift that you are to us. There's no where I've ever been that is filled with as much hope and love, except perhaps some churches I've been blessed enough to attend.
Which reminds me, I also want to give a special welcome to my spiritual home, St. Clare's in College Hill, as they join the CAIN circle! I feel like my faith life is uniting to perform great works for God's children!
-MM
On May 25th, 2015, join the Cain Gang at Yeatman's Cover for the Freestore Foodbank's Hunger Walk!
For every $20 we raise, we get 100 pounds of food from the Freestore Foodbank. That food goes directly into the homes of our neighbors in Northside and to the table at Grace Place, CAIN's transitional shelter for women and children.
You can help us out in three ways:
1.) JOIN OUR TEAM! You'll find a link on the bottom of our website: cainministry.org. We have three teams this year! One for our Northside friends (Northside Walks with CAIN), one for our friends outside of Northside (Churches Active In Northside Team) and a third for Grace Place (Grace Place Walks with CAIN).
2.) DONATE TO OUR TEAM! Any donation you can give to our teams would be a big help. Go to our team pages (linked at our website: cainministry.org.) and select the "donate" button on the right of the page.
3.) SPONSOR A GUEST'S REGISTRATION! We are looking for people to sponsor the registration for our guests. The pride our guests will feel knowing that they took part in an event that helped put nutritious food in our pantry and on the table at Grace Place would be so beneficial to their self-confidence. Email us at [email protected] if you are interested in sponsoring a guest.
Finally, we ask all of you to spread the word! Feel free to forward this email to anyone who you think might want to step up for CAIN and help us reach our goal!
Thank you all for everything you do for CAIN, and know that you are always in our prayers.
Easter was nearly ten days ago, but we are still in that season of reawakening, new life, and spring. My own faith celebrates Easter for fifty days, when we commemorate the Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles.
Many of us this time of year will experience that first thrill of "Spring Fever." We all know the feeling of that extra spring in our step as we suddenly decide its time for spring cleaning, or for planting an ambitious garden.
I tend to feel, for a day or two, when the weather first hits the 70s, that the world is beautiful, the sun is shining, and life is good.
This year, I'm making a commitment to extend that "Spring Fever." I want to extend this attitude of gratitude beyond just those first warm, sunny days.
We spend forty days in Lent, repenting, making atonement, and sacrificing. Why not spend fifty days rejoicing, being thankful, and smelling the beautiful bouquet that life presents us?
(And what better way to spread the gratitude than to step up for CAIN in this year's Hunger Walk? Check out the link to the registration page at the bottom of ours here: cainministry.org)
by MM
Get everything you need to know about this year’s Hunger Walk!
Lately, I’ve been meditating on the meaning of community and thinking about this passage from Romans:
For as in one body we have many parts, and all the parts donot have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ and individually parts of one another. Romans 12: 4-5.
The best place to witness community would be around the dinner table at Grace Place.
Community is all about living in unity, but fulfilling separate roles. At Grace Place, we have some of those roles specifically labeled on a given night: Cook, Table Setter, Table Clearer, and Dishwasher. Each role has its guidelines laid out, and is clear.
Sometimes, our roles aren’t so clear. There is the Person in Need, and the Shoulder to Cry On. There is the Person Afraid, and the Person Giving Hope.
Our roles change, our guidelines shift, and our needs wax and wain.
Community allows us to be the best at the role we are filling, and permit others to fulfill their roles.
Sometimes, when the world is too heavy a burden for one person to carry, their community can be a place to find respite.
Consider Jesus. He did not travel solo most of the time. He took time off to be by himself, but he chose a community of followers to travel with him, support him while he supported them.
CAIN is a great source of community for Northside. It knits us together with different roles into a God-glorifying team. From the Hospitality, to the Intake, to the Shoppers, to the Guests, we come together and serve each other and share with each other to bring us all each closer together and closer to God.
By MM
Join CAIN Sowers Circle! and make monthly gifts to grow food, shelter and hope!
Did you know that CAIN has several volunteers that are trained Ohio Benefit Bank counselors? We can help you file your taxes, apply for food assistance/SNAP, and navigate the Ohio Medicaid Application. Stop by on Tuesdays at 10am. First come. First serve. It's free!
Table Fellowship at Phil’s Place (Part One)
On Martin Luther King Day 2015, CAIN’s guests and volunteers at Phil’s Place were asked to participate in “The Paper Plate Project” , sponsored by Cincinnati’s FreeStore Foodbank and the Ohio Association of Foodbanks.
We passed out paper plates and sharpies and asked people to write a “message about hunger and poverty”.
We asked, “Why do you care about ending hunger and poverty in Ohio? What brought you to your local foodbank, food pantry, soup kitchen, or shelter— either as a guest or as a volunteer? What would you say to others to encourage them to take part in the fight against hunger?”
Below: One of 35 paper plates created by a CAIN guest on Martin Luther King Day 2015.
“What brought me [to Phil’s Place] is to find a way to keep my family fed and to have another way to meet [families like mine], to help where I can and teach my grandkids how they are not alone in life.”
I have spent the last weeks asking myself why I was at Phil’s that day. What follows is the Part One (oftwo) of my answer.
I went to my first community meal almost 15 years ago to finda homeless man who'd gone missing. Charles had a major mental illness and, unless the weather was frigid, he routinely declined my invitations to stay for the night at the small town shelter where I worked. Months had passed without word and, finally, a friend called me with news that Charles was at the church, manning the front door as others came and went from the meal. I headed over, and he agreed to talk over dinner. For the next months, that was our routine: he'd make himself visible to mutual friends and I'd get the call. We'd catch up and share resources; every once in a blue moon, the weather was bad enough that he'd take me up on the shelter and he'd leave to check himself in for the night.
I was still his social worker. And, while we stood together in line week after week, brushing snow off of the other's back and sharing leftovers, our relationship was transformed.
Over free hot meals in an isolated corner of the church hall, we became friends. We spoke and laughed our relief at being together again: I was glad he was still alive, and he was glad someone worried that he was sleeping in a tent in the snowy woods. True, Charles’s cold and isolated tent was his choice among the options available to him. But, over dinner, I came to understand in a new way that the tent was not what my friend truly wanted for himself: he wanted - he needed - a home of his own because solitude helped him manage his mental illness.
Even after Charles moved on, I continued to walk down to the church hall for that meal once a week. I went for the table fellowship into which Charles had initiated me. By turning to greet me that first day as a brother faces a worried sister come looking for him and his company, by joining me at table, my beautiful, wounded neighbor taught me what true Christian table fellowship is.
At table with Charles, I re-discovered the root of my lost (Catholic) Christian faith. When I put away my day-planner and accepted hospitality from my friend and the community gathered to feed us on those cold winter nights, my faith tradition became real to me for the first time in decades.
At table with Charles, I learned again what Jesus taught us through and by his life:
“Justice and friendship belong together. For the Christian, concerns about justice can never be abstract and disembodied. Our efforts must be grounded in the wisdom that comes from living alongside those whose lives have been overlooked or undervalued by the larger society”. 1
As we two friends broke bread in the corner of a great church hall, my heart began to burn within me, and I began my journey to Phil’s Place ... and to a recognition of the hunger, real physical hunger, with which so many of my neighbors live.
Part 2 to come.
by JB
1. Welcoming the Stranger by Christine Pohl. Sojourners, July-August 1999: What hospitality teaches us about justice.
Life of Bread by MM
These loaves of bread have quite a tale to tell.
They began in the bakery of Panera. The employees there made them, and these loaves watched all day long as their fellow loaves were cut up and served to Panera customers.
But these loaves had a special destiny. At the end of the day, they were bagged up so that at 9:30pm on a Wednesday night, some volunteers organized by Laura Rupp could pick them up and drive them to College Hill, where they were delivered to Grace Place, CAIN's transitional shelter.
Once the volunteers at Grace Place sorted the several large bags of bread and sweets, they delivered most of them Thursday morning to the volunteers at the Rainbow Choice Food Pantry at CAIN. There, they were distributed to the pantry guests as either bags of bagels, a loaf of bread, or sweets handed out as hospitality.
And sometimes, if they were part of a very generous delivery from Panera, there is enough to be handed out at Phil's Place, CAIN's community meal.
What a journey of love and service these loaves of Panera bread take. They get to bring joy and feed the bodies and souls of CAIN's guests. All those volunteers coordinating their efforts to bring the satisfaction of bread to all of CAIN's ministries.
"I am the bread of life."
by MM
Click on photo to learn how to join the CAIN volunteer scene in 2015! See page 4 of The Northsider monthly news or download pdf here
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Try to imagine the lives of our guests … and having to rely on the love and kindness of a stranger for: * your next meal * a home for you and your child * financial help to keep your lights and heat on * personal care items to make it through another month. You can provide these necessities. Even more importantly, you can show care, compassion and LOVE. #GivingTuesday means helping all year long! Your gift will feed 500 families each month – providing fresh fruits and vegetables, personal hygiene products, toilet paper, bread … basic essentials that nourish the body and soul. Your gift provides a home and healthy, loving support to women - with or without children - to help them address the problems that underlie their homelessness. Your gift fosters a sense of belonging and builds community through a dinner for over 80 neighbors each week. https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/CAIN
The need for personal care and hygiene is tremendous. Week after week, the hygiene shelves are emptied quickly and guests routinely request more of these basic and critical hygiene items than we can provide. Some people come to our pantry just to get these items. A mother of teens sums it up: “If I wasn’t able to get hygiene products for my kids I’m afraid their self-esteem would suffer. The pantry provides, soap, shampoo and cleaning supplies we would otherwise go without.” Basic essential personal hygiene products including soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, feminine hygiene products, diapers and toilet paper cannot be purchased with food stamps. They tend to be expensive to purchase and are also taxable, which adds to their cost. These basic necessities are out of reach to many of our neighbors. YOU can help! We can all do something to help make another persons life better. And thus our own.
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