Y’all come eat

There’s enough for everyone

There’s an old story about a crazy-eyed prophet named Elijah and a widow and her son. When a deadly famine came upon the land, God told Elijah to find a widow who would give him water and food. Elijah arrives to learn that there’s only enough oil and flour for one more meal before they die. The widow feeds the prophet anyway, and because of her generosity, the oil and the flour miraculously never run out (1 Kings 17:15-16).

It’s a troubling story that could be used by religious leaders to take advantage of suffering widows or others in desperation. But at its core, it’s a story about hope and God and abundance.

Some days it feels like the oil and flour are nearly out. While the stock market is skyrocketing and unemployment is the lowest in decades, still, according to the North Texas Food Bank, one in four children in our region lives without reliable access to enough food.

Sometimes it seems there is more than enough; sometimes it seems it’s not even close. There’s not enough time, not enough money, not enough margin. We can’t give more to help those in need — what if we don’t have enough for ourselves? Consumerism teaches that we swim in scarcity, which is why we need to work longer hours or buy one more thing to make us happy.

Scarcity or abundance. Which is it?

I recently heard Reverend Traci Blackmon, a pastor near Ferguson, Missouri, pose an alternative. Stop asking is there too little or too much? And instead ask, is there enough? Our shared reality suggests not abundance or scarcity, but sufficiency.

Sufficiency recognizes that together, there is enough; we are enough. We don’t always believe in abundance, and scarcity dominates our public discourse. But we can all agree that there’s enough — for full stomachs, for healing, for peace.

After Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, protests grew heated. Tensions bubbled over as police presence increased and hundreds of people swarmed the streets.

Cathy “Mama Cat” Daniels pulled her van into Blackmon’s church parking lot one Sunday afternoon. She wasn’t a churchgoer. Without a word, Mama Cat took out two folding tables and spread tablecloths, then laid out utensils and paper products. Last of all she produced two steaming, industrial-sized pots of spaghetti.

Then she turned to the crowd and said, “Y’all come eat, and bring the others.”

All were welcome. Protestors, police, grieving friends, grandmothers and gang members, every hue and shade of humanity. Everyone had a place at Mama Cat’s table, and the food was enough — sufficient. Since 2014, Daniels has served a hot meal nearly every Sunday afternoon to anyone who is hungry.

We get to make the world we live in. Miracles of sufficiency happen in everyday ways. Don’t be afraid to open your pantry or closet or wallet to share what you have, because someone needs what you have more than you do.

Brent McDougal is pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202

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BAPTIST

CLIFF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH / 125 Sunset Ave. / 214.942.8601

Serving Oak Cliff since 1898 / CliffTemple.org / English and Spanish

9 am Contemporary Worship / 10 am Sunday School / 11 am Traditional

ROYAL LANE BAPTIST CHURCH / 6707 Royal Lane / 214.361.2809

Christian Education 9:45 a.m. / Worship Service 10:55 a.m.

Pastor - Rev. Dr. Michael L. Gregg / www.royallane.org

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EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel

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THREE YEARS, $1 MILLION, FIVE SCIENCE LABS, COLLEGE ACCREDITATION

And now their science labs are accredited to offer dual-credit classes.

“We can do real science and real service if we have adequate, nicely designed facilities, and that’s what we’re putting in,” Palmer says. The donors are:

The Haggerty Foundation: $350,000

The Hillcrest Foundation: $50,000

The Staubach Family Foundation: $15,000

Rauch Foundation: $5000

Bishop Dunne class of 1975: $10,000

The Rees-Jones Foundation: $100,000

The Gollob family: $100,000

The Catholic Foundation: $70,000

St. Anne Catholic Parish: $5,000 raises most of its annual grant funds through its fall home tour.

Bishop Dunne Catholic School president Kate Dailey wanted her students to be able to receive college credit through courses taken in the school’s own science labs.

After a $6-million upgrade to the 1961 school building in 2015, the private school near Kiest Park applied to Texas Community Colleges’ dual credit program, but they were turned down.

“This, of course, was very disappointing,” Dailey says. “But it also really activated us into making sure that we got this done.”

The cost to upgrade the five science labs to college-level standards came to almost $1 million.

Once science department chair Roger Palmer and other teachers assessed the needs of the five labs, then Dailey, advancement director Lydia Torrez and communications director Allie Daus worked together nonstop for three years to receive financial commitments from fourteen sources.

As a result, the school has been able to upgrade all of its science labs; three of them are done already, and the other two will be finished by the start of the school year.

Grants from the Haggerty Foundation allowed the school to focus on chemistry labs, which improved students’ scores on the AP chemistry exam. A grant from the Rees-Jones Foundation made possible an animal health and wellness class, which they hope will steer more students toward veterinary medicine.

The school holds an annual STEM conference called Geotech that has drawn speakers such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jane Goodall.

The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable and Educational Trust: $10,000

Fred and Shannon Cerise: $50,000

Anonymous: $5,000

Moody Foundation: $87,500

Total: $837,500

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Neighborhoods Win Grants From Heritage Oak Cliff

Heritage Oak Cliff donated $40,000 to neighborhood projects recently.

The nonprofit formerly known as the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League funded 33 projects from 13 neighborhood associations. The organization

The grants include: sidewalk repair programs, murals by Chris Bingham at Jefferson and Hampton and in Moss Park, improvements to the Kessler Steps, maintenance and enhancements to public spaces, including Stone Park in Kings Highway, projects to support local schools, including a grant to purchase school uniforms for students that need help, support of National Night Out events, curb address painting and help with neighborhood association communications, such as newsletter printing and postage. The recently reorganized Kimball Square Neighborhood Association received its first grant from Heritage Oak Cliff, $500 for neighborhood communication costs.

Texans Can Produces Healthcare Workers

Nine students of Texans Can Academy — Dallas Oak Cliff received Certified Nursing Assistant certificates from Mountain View College recently. The seven-week nursing assistant program includes lectures, skills labs and clinical experience. Texans Can students can enroll in the course for free.

The students learn how to take blood pressure, how to move patients and many other skills. Once they pass the state exam, they can find work as a professional nursing assistant in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes or long-term care facilities.

FOLLOW THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE, TX

Remember that time Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze had to “eat crow” after calling the Margaret Hunt Hill a “bridge to nowhere”? He maintained that the Santiago Calatrava-designed bridge is “still stupid,” but he acknowledged that West Dallas definitely is somewhere. That infamous quip now has made its way into a West Dallas developer’s plans. Oaxaca Interests, the developer of Sylvan Thirty, is opening a new entertainment venue in a former West Dallas industrial site. It’s called Nowhere, TX. The venue, at 1216 W. Commerce at Edgefield, debuted last month. The venue will host pop-up events with rotating chefs and menus. “Our hope is to create a unique space that showcases a creative new use for the spaces along this industrial corridor. We plan to host and produce events at Nowhere, TX for a few years,” says Brent Jackson of Oaxaca Interests. The 2.8-acre venue has three buildings. Hocker Design Group is designing the landscape, including an enclosed children’s play area.

Preservation Awards

Preservation Dallas gave preservation achievement awards recently to three Oak Cliff buildings. Oak Cliffbased boutique real estate developer Christian Chernock’s new build at 1038 Kings Highway won for its example as new multifamily construction that fits into the historic surrounding neighborhood. Robert and Brenda Garza won for the renovation of their historic home on Lake Cliff Park, at 223 E. Sixth. And Arts Mission Oak Cliff, formerly known as Winnetka Congregational Church, won for Todd and Lola Lott’s painstaking restoration of an 89-year-old church.

Land Swap Pitched At Founders Park

The owner of Founders Square Apartments wants to redevelop them into a high-rise apartment building with ground-floor retail if neighbors and the city will agree to a land swap with Founders Park. WindMass Capital has a plan to build a five-to-seven story apartment building at Founders Park, either on the site of the existing apartments or on an adjacent tract on Colorado at Marsalis. The 65-unit apartment complex at 929 N. Marsalis sits on 1.37 acres surrounded by Founders Park. WindMass wants to swap that site for an adjacent 1.37 acres on the corner of Colorado and Marsalis. They would then demolish the existing apartments and turn that acreage back into parkland. The swap would nearly double the property’s roadway frontage. The current site has about 250 feet along Marsalis. The new site would give the developer more like 475 feet of frontage on Colorado and Marsalis, which would make retail development feasible. They also would want a zoning change to be able to build seven stories instead of five on that corner, with 223 apartments. Without a land swap, the developer could, by right, tear down the old apartments and build a six-story, 250-unit apartment building on that site with no retail component. With the land swap, they would build an underground parking garage. To build on the current site, they would construct podium or “donut” parking where apartments surround an aboveground parking garage. In exchange for the land swap, the developer would do about $500,000 worth of work to Founders Park, including brush removal, tree remediation and lighting and safety improvements. WindMass also has plans to seek future tax reimbursements for the project. Mitch Voss of WindMass gave a presentation to Lake Cliff Park-area neighbors Wednesday night. The Dallas-based commercial real estate investment and development company has hired Kevin Sloan Studio landscape architect of Oak Cliff and Wilder Belshaw, an architect with offices in Dallas and Austin, who grew up in Oak Cliff. So far there are no specific plans, but Voss says their vision is to design an articulated building front, wide sidewalks and facades that face the street and the park. Construction on a new building would take about two years. With the land swap, they could keep the old apartments open while the new ones are under construction. Voss said WindMass would offer new apartments to the approximately 100 current residents of Founders Square at prices close to what they pay now, although their units would be smaller. If the developer receives future tax reimbursements from the city, they would be required to offer 20 percent of the units as affordable for 15 years. Rent at Founders Square currently costs about $925-$1,100 for one- and two-bedroom apartments with all bills paid. That’s about $1.50 per square foot. The new apartments, averaged with the affordable rents, would net about $2 per square foot, Voss says. The land swap must be approved by the city’s Park Board and City Council. WindMass is planning several more meetings with neighbors before deciding which path to pursue.