A LOVE CHALLENGE to Redding POLICE, BETHEL CHURCH SCHOOL and MINISTRY !

Bill Johnson Senior Pastor Bethel Church

2/19/19 - CHALLENGE FAILED

Parkview homeless tent city after suffering through a devastating snow storm was destroyed by Redding police and volunteers from Shasta Support Services. Homeless report day after snow storm a homeless veteran was found dead from elements "hugging a trash can."

 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?  Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit  Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire  Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

Matthew7: 15-20

#Redding Parkview Tent City Destroyed Today By Redding #Police Several  #homeless tell me homeless #veteran found dead from elements day after snow storm Picture of him hugging a trash can taken, supposedly a  #Veteran pic.twitter.com/2DCGcdl0Hm

— Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) February 20, 2019

LOVE CHALLENGE to Redding BETHEL CHURCH, SCHOOL and MINISTRY.

WHERE - Parkview Tent City Homeless Camp


WHY - Demonstrate The EXCELLENCE of JESUS CHRISTS LOVE to our HOMELESS COMMUNITY !


Contact Local News Media Outlets and DEMAND a Story

On This Humanitarian Crisis In Redding Parkview

Homeless Camps and Stop Homeless Camp Evictions !


KRCR TV News Channel 7

530-243-7777

news@krcrtv.com

Redding Record Searchlight

530-243-2424

rrsedit@redding.com

Action News Now

530-343-1212

news@actionnewsnow.com



SAVE Parkview Tent City Homeless Camp !

Stop Police Raids and Evictions - Where Should They Go?

Its Working !


Contact Redding City Council


Main Office:
phone: (530) 225-4447
fax: (530) 225-4463

Julie Winter
Mayor
jwinter@cityofredding.org

Adam McElvain
Vice Mayor
amcelvain@cityofredding.org

Erin Resner
Mayor Pro Tempore
eresner@cityofredding.org

Michael Dacquisto
Council Member
mdacquisto@cityofredding.org

Kristen Schreder
Council Member
kschreder@cityofredding.org



*UPDATE 2-8-19  OUTRAGE !  Redding Homeless suffering on banks of Sacramento River! Only local shelter waving 30 day In Out policy?

"City of Chico opening cold-weather warming center to provide Chico’s most at-risk residents a location to stay warm" open all weekend.

Will Redding do the same?

*UPDATE 2-12-19   Good News Rescue Mission’s Capacity Revealed!

*UPDATE 2-13-19  Parkview homeless camp devastated by snowstorm many suffering!

ADOPT  -  Believe and RECEIVE !   "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

ORGANIZE ! BRING The FULL HOLY SPIRIT FORCE OF Bethel Church Against The Spirit of Poverty and Despair !

WHEN -  Right NOW !

*Please consider donations of large and small tents, sleeping bags, gloves, tarps, blankets,
battery operated lanterns, flashlights for safety and of course food and drinks would be greatly appreciated !

Redding California Police - Homeless Child in Parkview Homeless Tent Camp

Redding California Police Attempts to Swing Baton At Young Homeless Child

Redding California Police Chief Roger Moore

Redding council accepts Bethel's $25,000 for police drones

Pastor Kris Vallotton Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church and cofounder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry

City Council accepts 500,000 dollar Bethel donation for police unit

ParkView Homeless Tent Camp Police / Fish and Wildlife Raid

Redding Police, Fish and Wildlife Officers raid ParkView homeless tent city

Redding Parkview Homeless Tent City

Redding Parkview Homeless Tent City

"Camp Carr" - City of Redding California Camp Fire / Carr Fire Homeless Survival Tent City

Although picture was taken during middle of the day, Camp Carr's population doubles at night

Whether City of Redding or its Police like it or not, due to a timely recent Federal judge court ruling on the treatment of homeless virtually has stopped the "cruel and unusual punishment" of those without shelter, prohibiting RPD from writing tickets criminalizing sleeping or keeping warm by a survival fire.

A tent city is forming in Redding at the Parkview park and trail on the banks of the Sacramento river.

Timely indeed due to so many recently displaced victims of the Shasta County Carr and the Paradise Camp fire of Butte County, near Chico California. 

Out of complete and total necessity Redding's "CampCarr" has formed.

Unfortunately drinking fountains and park benches were removed some time ago in an effort by City of Redding officials to prevent everyday living and life sustaining activities of others less fortunate in the past.

Redding California Survival Camp Carr area looks very well maintained, has porta potties, close to homeless services, and plenty of room for others.

*We ask that for the SAFETY of families, women and children staying there that you consider donating Coleman type battery operated camping lanterns, flashlights and extra batteries.

Please drop your donations off for Camp Carr with Mr Morgan, Just look for the 8 year veterans tent displaying American flag, he will see that they are evenly distributed.

UPDATES

*  12/11/2018 UPDATE - Representative from Good News Rescue Mission states on Radio Station KQMS homeless Camp Fire survivors from Butte County staying at their homeless facility !

*  12/13/2018 UPDATE - Camp Carr homeless survival tent city camps are reported GROWING on BOTH sides of Sacramento river now including Henderson Road. !


*  12/13/2018 UPDATE - Heavy rain predicted for next several days - Tents and sleeping bags desperately needed !

*  12/14/2018 UPDATE - Redding Coalition for the Homeless - Protest Redding City Council Unlawful Camping Ordinance Protest Event !

*  12/14/2018 UPDATE - Hundreds of pounds of donated Dog and Cat food donated to homeless pet owners at Parkview park Camp Carr today !

HUGE Thank You to  FIDO Pet Food Bank  Nancy Martin  Trinity County Food Assistance Program   Petco  Jeffry England  WoW !

*  12/18/2018 UPDATE -Posted April 23, 2011 - 'They have no place': Rousted, relocated, Redding's homeless have few choices

"As the county's only shelter, the mission is scarcely equipped to handle its homeless population, said Community Relations Director Ken White.

"We're feeling extraordinarily overwhelmed by the amount of services needed by people in the community," he said. "If the economy worsens, or even stays as it's been, that could be a very at-risk population as a community I don't feel like we're very prepared to service at this point."

The mission has only about 120 beds, he said, but because staff members try to help everyone they can, up to 70 extra guests at a time often sleep on the chapel floor.

"There's a huge need," he said.

And the mission's 30-day time limit means it's hardly a solution to Redding's homelessness situation, he said.

"The goal is, we want to be an emergency service," he said.

"We're not a long-term shelter."

*  12/19/2018 UPDATE -   2 young homeless girls came in and spoke at the Redding City Council meeting and it was powerfully incredible !


It is expected after Redding City Council meeting last night  Parkview Tent City homeless will be able to stay tentatively until sometime in February !

City of Redding, the local news media,  Redding police Chief Moore ALL publicly LIE TO YOU saying the Good News Rescue Mission has never been at capacity - Tweet from Record Searchlight Reporter Katie Gillespie

Good News Rescue Mission turned away 500 people last year due to staffing and resource shortages. #SafeRedding

— Katie Gillespie (@KGillespie_RS) November 14, 2014

*  12/19/2018 UPDATE - Powerful - As Redding City Council addresses camping those living on the streets respond

Richard Morgan who said he's a veteran and has been homeless for 18 years living in Redding.

If You Are Cited By Redding Police or HAVE YOUR POSSESSIONS / SURVIVAL GEAR TAKEN  Legal Services of Northern California Would Like To Hear From You !

*  12/20/2018 UPDATE -  Not smart for Redding Police officers at Parkview Tent City to scream at a Legal Observer today for Northern California Legal Services to get down to the rivers edge and take pictures of old shoes etc...

*  12/25/2018 UPDATE - Christmas and Christmas eve I saw to the delight of many camping at Parkview Tent City several cars stopping and dropping off gifts of clothes and food and other items to the delight of many staying there. Thank you Redding community and members of Redding Coalition for the Homeless for your Love and Compassion this holiday season !

Part of Redding Camp Carr Parkview Tent City

Parkview Park & Trail Camp Carr Homeless Safe Parking - Have Twitter? Please Re Tweet !

Plz ReTweet WILL #BETHEL #CHURCH #SCHOOL and #MINISTRY ADOPT ParkView TENT CITY of GROWING #REDDING #HOMELESS DEMONSTRATING #JESUS #CHRIST #Christian #Holy #Spirit LOVE FOR ALL THE CITY TO SEE ? pic.twitter.com/uv7YFGIHDu

— Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) December 15, 2018

A humanitarian crisis is occurring in Redding California -- KRCR News Channel 7 refuses story

A humanitarian crisis is occurring in Redding and when KRCR News Channel 7 reporter was told about it and was asked if they were aware of the situation and could they do a December human interest story on this situation the reporter responded, "Oh we are aware of the situation" and "we don't do those kind of stories"

Comforting im sure to the Parkview neighborhood facing the smile place park by the river next to Cypress street bridge.

You see a HUGE homeless tent city has filled that park with tents and make shift structures spilling right down into the river, One of them looks like a shanty house.

The numbers have grown to beyond the closure of South City park, as im sure more Carr fire and Camp fire victims find themselves mixing with a population that has been homeless here for quite sometime,

Why would Jennifer Scarborough and a reporter want to keep that in the dark?

The City of Chico and Butte County got 4.9 million each for declaring a homeless shelter emergency... Its that easy.... Redding and Shasta County could do the same...

But dont count on KRCR News Channel 7 to tell you that... Merry Christmas all.

City of Redding Police Criminalizes Tribulation, Natural Disasters, and it's Homeless

Dear City of Redding Attorney...

Civil rights attorneys from Washington DC instrumental in the no child left behind legislation are VERY INTERESTED in your online flyer you must have given the OK to produce.

To equate that maintaining homeless civil and constitutional rights (especially homeless veterans) will result in loss of police and fire services is in my opinion an embarrassment to the Redding community in which you serve, and an unwarranted diabolic triangulation of fear created by you and the City of Redding from within. 

The compassionate Idaho court decision on homeless sleeping is rather timely considering we have had 20 or more thousand people displaced by our own Carr Fire here in Shasta County and 50 thousand people displaced by Camp fire an hour and half away from us south  wiping out the entire town of Paradise and surrounding communities in Butte county near Chico California.

Even more so as fire officials declare never before seen intensities of never before seen home destroying devastating wildfires will now be the year round normal.

Going to ticket them for sitting or laying down? sleeping, keeping warm by a fire?

Should a police officer decide who is worthy of these discretionary laws and penalties and who is not? Lady liberty blindfolded ? Penalize one penalize them all? Perhaps your officers dont like the way a homeless man parts his hair? 

Perhaps your officers should stick with the black SS storm troopers uniforms and forget about wearing the judges black robe as well?

I dont believe Redding police officers that refuse to wear body cameras can be trusted with such power, and I believe past events prove me correct.

But troubling is the fact that it appears the city is looking for ways to even further criminalize the homeless population here in Redding California. Current law has a 1000 dollar and or 6 months in jail for the crime of sleeping AND OR keeping warm by a fire. With one homeless Good News Rescue Mission with a 30 day in 30 day out policy serving several counties with NO OTHER NIGHT TIME HOMELESS FACILITIES.  A "Gospel Rescue Mission" that insists on pushing the religious "Rapture Fly Away" doctrine found nowhere in the scriptures.

Cruel and unusual punishment this winter for homeless Carr fire and Camp fire survivors indeed...

Many Christians know what time it is and feel opposite of your belief Redding Police Department that "The federal court decision is frustrating to all of us" ...

"Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Reality is that court decision is a timely compassionate gift from God to His "least of the brethren."

Why would ANY Christian be in favor of practices and laws that unfairly single out homeless people and criminalize them for everyday living and life-sustaining activities? Homeless advocates, please attend the Redding city council meeting this December as they revisit the no homeless camping / sleeping law.


“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;  but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared  So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them  Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”

Vigilante groups invade Redding California homeless

"Guardian Standoff " - a News Cafe.com

Definition of vigilante:  "A member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate); broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice."

Sad really as these groups and local media have been creating for years a dynamic that have folks hating the people who are being oppressed in our community and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Just who are the groups that have taken on the definition of vigilantism as a mission statement here in Redding? Has ex police chief Robert Paoletti opened the door for a multitude of violations of civil and constitutional rights of the most poor and vulnerable of our community ?

Redding Guardian Angles

If  the City of Redding, its police, and its chief cannot handle and lack the training to effectively and safely deal with those with mental issues and have subjected Redding to legal trouble as this  Sacramento Bee News article states: "Lawsuit: Redding police beat, suffocated mentally ill Chico man" what measures and background checks as well as training are given to these groups ?

Will untrained, unskilled members of the Redding Guardian Angels subject the city to liabilities of civil and constitutional right violation lawsuits in the future?

Disturbing photo : Redding California Guardian Angels

 
Take Back Redding / Shasta Support Services

Is it fair to have Shasta Support Services  go out into the deep brush of our community to do the local "point in time" census on local homeless and their locations only to turn them in to law enforcement at a later date ? The more homeless that are reported the more funds to combat homelessness are available...

Would a recall of 2 city council members by these groups really cost tax payers of the city of Redding 200, 000 dollars as reported in local media? Even though it is so close to the end of their terms ?

These groups I believe LOVE to hide behind good deeds such as "Invasive Species Eradication" of non native plant life to destroy known homeless camp locations or "Community Clean Up" days to also destroy known homeless camp locations and confiscate necessary living and life sustaining food and sleeping gear as well as the last of their worldly possessions.

Dale Ball - Take Back Redding /Shasta Support Services

The Redding Area Transient Patrol group or R.A.T. Patrol

From the local news article we have shocking  "Controversial Facebook page targets homeless" group that claims to shine light on the homeless situation in Redding. However, homeless advocates are concerned the group is promoting violence against the homeless. Posts on the group refer to "eradicating" the homeless population, using what advocates call "violent and inhumane" acts.

"Some members have suggested filling up squirt guns with urine and spraying them while they sleep, or putting bear traps in dumpsters," Lee said. "I haven't personally done that, but if people are doing that, good for them."

Violence reported against Redding homeless

Chico - Northern California Homeless Hatred

 

"Chico City Council Fueled Hate Crimes And Bigotry"

R-Town armed private guards roaming downtown removing homeless and giving them tickets for the crime of sitting or laying down ? Sub standard law enforcement hired for a perceived sub standard lower class of homeless American citizenry somehow devoid of the civil and constitutional rights and freedoms we all enjoy ?

Chico California has a homeless shelter crisis, and the local chapter of the ACLU agrees.

Downtown merchants allegedly threatening to "hose " homeless off the streets and sidewalks returning to the days of Birmingham and Martin Luther King with what seems like a stamp of approval from the City Council granting what can only be described as spiritual oppression, and a clear message of homeless having no right to exist.

And in of all places Chico California ?



Life on the Streets of Chico

"There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men."
Proverbs 30:14



Please meet Arturo, 96 years old, homeless.
"Life on the streets of Chico and Beyond"

"Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?"

James 2:5


Chico Peace and Justice Center

"On armed guards and impoverished citizens"


“Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?"

Isaiah 58:6-7



"Chico Community is Everyone - Right to Exist"