On August 20th, Debbi Butner, director of the Kernersville "Family Promise" spoke at our breakfast. Family Promise's purpose is to assist homeless families in Forsyth County that currently have children. Most families in this situation are not visible due to the misconception that if they are seen, social services will take away their children. Family Promise will coordinate with some 12 congregations in Kernersville on a rotating basis to serve the homeless each for 1 week as they transition into permanent homes.

On August 13th, Janet Johnston, author of the children's book "We All Live on Earth", spoke at our breakfast. Janet is a retired school teacher of 30 years and has lived in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries. We All Live on the Earth is the story of Filip, a boy from Sweden, who shares with the reader his curiosity about how other children in the world live. It is also a story about diversity, acceptance and the need for understanding, and is a great tool for teaching that we are all a big family on this great planet we call Earth.

On August 6th, Gloria Whisenhunt, Chair of the Forsyth County Commissioners, spoke at our breakfast meeting. Gloria has served on many local boards from the Airport Authority, to PART, Forsyth Hospital Board of Trustees, and "HOT" in her many years of public service. This morning she started out by saying, "The two most important issues always seems to be zoning and water". She also spoke on local improvement projects including the Triad Park, which will include an amphitheater and a miniature golf center. The TDA, Tourism Development Authority, was also mentioned.

On July 30th, Pete Kunkle, Pastor of First Christian Church of Kernersville, spoke about and showed pictures from his recent trip to Israel. His tour of the Holy land was in association with almost 30 other fellow scholars and in Pete's words, "re ignited my passion". Locations included Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilea, Mount of Beatitudes, Capernium (Home of Peter) the Jordan River, Nazareth, the Wailing Wall and Bethlehem. Pete described how the group "walked in the footsteps of Christ" and how each member of the group led a nightly communion service in their own denomination's style. The four sections of Jerusalem (Christian, Armenian, Muslim & Jewish) were not only physically separated but also socially separated in their own worlds.