Add It Up

from Creative Loafing, an Atlanta music/culture magazine May 26 - June 1st edition

Estimated cost of the new 3,000-seat North Point Ministries church to be built on Lenox Road.... $40 million

Annual budget of the largest church in Atlanta, First Baptist Church.... $13 million

Number of uninsured children in Georgia.... 166,000

Approximate cost to give a basic check-up, without blood tests or vaccines, to all those children.... $12,450,000

Approximate number of Sudanese refugees who've fled to neighbouring Chad because of tribal warfare.... 250,000

Cost to shelter and feed those refugees for one year.... $13,590,000

Minimum number of homeless people in metro Atlanta.... 37,000

Minimum number of meals provided to homeless by the Open Door Community each year.... 15,600

Annual budget of the nonprofit Open Door Community.... $440,000

Number of times Jesus lost his temper in the New Testament.... 1*




* He threw money changers out of a temple in Jerusalem

Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Department of Community Health, Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Save Darfur Coalition, CARE, Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Open Door Community

Out of interest, i checked the Open Door Community website which says

The Open Door Community is a residential community in the Catholic Worker tradition (we’re sometimes called a Protestant Catholic Worker House!). We seek to dismantle racism, sexism and heterosexism, abolish the death penalty, and create the Beloved Community on Earth through a loving relationship with some of the most neglected and outcast of God’s children: the homeless and our sisters and brothers who are in prison.

listening to Flesh Eating Foundation | Unreadable Communication - Curve (FEF Remix)