Rich Getting Richer, Poor Fighting Back -- Miss Kristin and Friends (Recording Artists) Called to Action
What was once a quiet corner in the heart of downtown San Jose is now a mega circuit for the rich and poor alike, and while the un-housed turn to emergency shelters, riverbanks, and bridges, for a place to live; CHAM Deliverance Ministry, with the help of impressive musicians like recording artists Miss Kristin (Big Fuss Records, http://misskristin.com), Donnie Woodruff (LaRue, RCA), Adrienne Lawton and Alison Campbell, are making a difference in the community one song at a time.
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) June 13, 2007 -- Directly next door to CHAM, the City of San Jose has constructed a mammoth, scandal-plagued, dome-shaped City Hall. San José is known for a world-renowned quality of life, offering a wide variety of exciting cultural, recreational, and educational and entertainment opportunities.
Yet, with all the gifts that San Jose offers the well paid masses of tech and business workers in Silicon Valley, the city has estimated to have over 7,000 homeless residents and a serious housing afford ability problem, leaving many low income working families frozen out of the American Dream in this affluent city. There is a draft plan to end homelessness and the low income housing shortage needs $4 billion to be realized; hard money to come by when local government cries poor after having spent over $400 million on the new City Hall. Developers who want to build high priced residential projects find the city very cooperative when they ask for variances from the City's established low income housing plans but the poor continue to go without housing.
CHAM is directly involved with championing the cause of justice for all of those who can be described as "the least of these" (Matthew 25:40). In a related incident, when Mayor Chuck Reed was interviewed by television reporter, Tony Russomanno of CBS 5 News on the subject of San Jose becoming a sanctuary city for immigrants, the Mayor said, "Being a sanctuary city is not necessary for San Jose to do our job as a city and we're going to follow federal law," even though the Mayor admitted, "there's no doubt it's a flawed law. It's a system that's broken and sorely needs to be fixed." Pastor Scott Wagers, when interviewed by Russomanno in front of his Church, adjacent to City Hall, reminded the reporter that "Dr. King said often about the civil rights movement where the laws that were made in the south protected the status quo, and he said 'An unjust law is no law at all." Pastor Scott derived his remarks from a letter Dr King wrote while he was being held in the Birmingham Jail in which Dr. King agreed with St. Augustine, "An unjust law is no law at all."
CHAM Deliverance Ministry, a Christian community guided by Pastor Scott Wagers is located in the shadow of the opulent New City Hall and shelters families while helping a growing congregation fight back against poverty. Among the CHAM music team, artists like Miss Kristin (Big Fuss Records), Donnie Woodruff (LaRue, RCA), Adrienne Lawton and Alison Campbell help the people by buoying their spirit with joyous songs of hope and strength. Miss Kristin is a regular volunteer at CHAM Deliverance Ministry Sunday services singing her original songs and rallying the troops so to speak, toward healing and change for the homeless, poor, and all people in San Jose, California.
Kristin is calling on others to join the fight for basic human rights, and to contribute by speaking out on behalf of those who are less fortunate, those who have fallen through the cracks. Kristin has a new album titled, "AMAZING POWER", that she produced herself with songs like, "Immigration Song" and "The Amazing Power of Love". The adversity she has faced in pursuing her dream has contributed to her special songwriting style. Hard work, perseverance, facing her fears and a great deal of innate talent has helped Miss Kristin in her quest to have her music heard by people worldwide. CHAM http://cham-ministry.org is located at 80 South Fifth Street in the heart of downtown San Jose, and is committed to making a difference in the community and the world. "It's time to step up and make a stand for equality for all people in all aspects of life, the time is now".
Quoting her song "Easy Street", Miss Kristin sings, "Open your eyes, your on Easy Street/today is a brand new day/lift the one who slips away".
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