06-27-2013, 08:54 PM
House of the Covenant?
Librarians are the ideal resource but the first gives Tamsin a generous sort of look like: you're young enough to know about Google, right? before handing her off to the reference library at the city desk, who's a bit more generous. Maybe even a little pleased that a nice young woman has come in to consult the library about things. Why is she looking them up? Hmm.
House of the Covenant, no, she hasn't - oh, wait.
A bit of digging and she ties the name Tamsin has given her together with another, rather more benign and ordinary: House of God. Sets Tamsin up with the Denver Post archives database and even shows her how to use the microfilm machines if Tamsin wants to look back past this century, into the last.
Helps the Galliard with setting search parameters and limits, teaching her the magic of terms and connectors to include and exclude pieces of her search and, well, listen.
She starts finding stories.
2006: Local Church Doing It On Their Own - a small story about the House of the Covenant with a picture of Carlos and Opal Black standing in the frame of an old corrugated metal garage door, open to show a rows of shelves with necessities and a handful of homeless waiting in line. The story is rather long and details their conviction that the world will end within ten years, their adherance to a literal interpretation of the bible, but also their commitment to community and family. Carlos Black talks about how important stewardship of the earth is because god gave man dominion over it.
2008: an obituary for Opal Black, co-pastor and wife of Carlos Black. Services to be held at House of the Covenant on X date.
2011: A New Decade: and New Decades - a story about the expanding congregation of the House of God, a storefront church in Colfax. Picture of Carlos and Christina Black, and a discussion of their aggressive community outreach programs. The thrift store and soup kitchen. For years operated on a dime, but recently the congregation has doubled in size and they've raised enough for a professional kitchen and new digs. Their motto, Working While It's Day - is mentioned.
late 2011: The Secret Formula for Success? "It started, said Christina Black, with a discussion at the prayer circle for ex-convicts held without fail every Tuesday evening..." The story goes on to discuss the program started in response to the discussion among the members of the prayer circle about how hard it is to return to civilian life, build up job skills, et cetera, while resisting the lure of the streets. So rEEntry was born. They discuss success of the program and how they claim a 0% recidivism rate. The journalist who authored the story does mention that critics claim these statistics are inflated and invented, and that they do not count those who 'wash out' of the program at any stage.
Early 2012: The Healing Place gets fast-track approval through re-organized zoning board. Board member Jack Crenshaw says the treatment facility will be a boon to the neighborhood both economically and morally.
Late 2012: Fund raising for The Healing Place on track for 2014 opening.
May 2013: A Camp for Troubled Youth. A brief article about a small "boot camp" style camp serving about 20 or so at-risk or troubled youth. Spiritual advisor Carlos Black says that you have to get to them while they're young.
July 2013: Neighborhood activists oppose treatment facility, find little traction. The critics are dismissed by Jack Crenshaw as 'not in my backyard types.'
Librarians are the ideal resource but the first gives Tamsin a generous sort of look like: you're young enough to know about Google, right? before handing her off to the reference library at the city desk, who's a bit more generous. Maybe even a little pleased that a nice young woman has come in to consult the library about things. Why is she looking them up? Hmm.
House of the Covenant, no, she hasn't - oh, wait.
A bit of digging and she ties the name Tamsin has given her together with another, rather more benign and ordinary: House of God. Sets Tamsin up with the Denver Post archives database and even shows her how to use the microfilm machines if Tamsin wants to look back past this century, into the last.
Helps the Galliard with setting search parameters and limits, teaching her the magic of terms and connectors to include and exclude pieces of her search and, well, listen.
She starts finding stories.
2006: Local Church Doing It On Their Own - a small story about the House of the Covenant with a picture of Carlos and Opal Black standing in the frame of an old corrugated metal garage door, open to show a rows of shelves with necessities and a handful of homeless waiting in line. The story is rather long and details their conviction that the world will end within ten years, their adherance to a literal interpretation of the bible, but also their commitment to community and family. Carlos Black talks about how important stewardship of the earth is because god gave man dominion over it.
2008: an obituary for Opal Black, co-pastor and wife of Carlos Black. Services to be held at House of the Covenant on X date.
2011: A New Decade: and New Decades - a story about the expanding congregation of the House of God, a storefront church in Colfax. Picture of Carlos and Christina Black, and a discussion of their aggressive community outreach programs. The thrift store and soup kitchen. For years operated on a dime, but recently the congregation has doubled in size and they've raised enough for a professional kitchen and new digs. Their motto, Working While It's Day - is mentioned.
late 2011: The Secret Formula for Success? "It started, said Christina Black, with a discussion at the prayer circle for ex-convicts held without fail every Tuesday evening..." The story goes on to discuss the program started in response to the discussion among the members of the prayer circle about how hard it is to return to civilian life, build up job skills, et cetera, while resisting the lure of the streets. So rEEntry was born. They discuss success of the program and how they claim a 0% recidivism rate. The journalist who authored the story does mention that critics claim these statistics are inflated and invented, and that they do not count those who 'wash out' of the program at any stage.
Early 2012: The Healing Place gets fast-track approval through re-organized zoning board. Board member Jack Crenshaw says the treatment facility will be a boon to the neighborhood both economically and morally.
Late 2012: Fund raising for The Healing Place on track for 2014 opening.
May 2013: A Camp for Troubled Youth. A brief article about a small "boot camp" style camp serving about 20 or so at-risk or troubled youth. Spiritual advisor Carlos Black says that you have to get to them while they're young.
July 2013: Neighborhood activists oppose treatment facility, find little traction. The critics are dismissed by Jack Crenshaw as 'not in my backyard types.'
But my heart is wild and my bones are steel
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.
- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.
- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula