Food Bank taking design applications for 2021 Empty Bowl T-shirts GMFB announced this week that the search for this year’s Empty Bowl T-shirt design has begun, and they have enlisted the help of elementary school students throughout the region to make a mark in the fight against hunger.
Hunger affects more than a million Georgians on a yearly basis, including thousands of children right here in our state.
Georgia Mountain Food Bank, or GMFB, has dedicated itself to helping eradicate food scarcity in its five-county service area, which includes Dawson, Forsyth, Hall, Lumpkin and Union counties. A huge part of that effort is GMFB’s annual Empty Bowl luncheon, which funds hundreds of thousands of meals here in north Georgia for children and grown-ups alike.
Perhaps it is burglars marking their next target? Or workmen marking up a property for demolition?
The code in fact marks the return of a centuries-old Christian practice of scrawling holy graffiti to celebrate the festival of the Epiphany – the three Wise Men s visit to Baby Jesus in Bethlehem which many Britons know through the traditional Christmas nativity story.
The trend, known as chalking the door , has seen a sudden revival in Britain in 2021 as Christians hit hard by the coronavirus crisis seek to lift community spirits.
It is believed to have originated in Central Europe at the end of the Middle Ages before spreading to Britain.