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GREENSBORO — Frank Moore just got an award from First Lutheran Church for 20 years of service.

Yes, lots of houses of worship have faithful workers like Moore, the church’s director of community ministries. But with fighting hunger and homelessness the “mission priority” at First Lutheran, Moore’s work has greatly affected the greater community.

In his position at one of the most socially conscious houses of worship in the community, Moore solicits funding for and oversees a program that provides emergency assistance such as food, clothing, rent and other critical life needs. He also works closely with Greensboro Urban Ministry to solicit food and clothing for the homeless and needy.

Last year, under his leadership, First Lutheran donated more than 17,000 pounds of food to Urban Ministry and raised more than $10,000 for the annual Crop Walk to relieve world hunger.

In 2009, Frank organized a drive to provide shoes for Soles4Souls , an organization that provides shoes to those in need around the nation. By coordinating with other churches, 5,000 pairs of shoes were collected.

As part of the church’s recognition, Kimberly Embry , a church leader, and Charlie Zimmerman, senior pastor, have organized the building of a Habitat for Humanity dwelling in his name.

“This home is a testament to your 20 years of service: full of grace, compassion and, most of all, greatness in your tireless service to others,” Embry said in making the presentation to Moore. “Thank you from the fullness of our hearts.”

Much of the $25,000 needed for the Habitat project has already been collected from church members, and construction should begin this spring.

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 The Greensboro chapter of the American Red Cross is partnering with two local churches to provide CPR and other first aid classes to the public.

The classes, starting in February and running through March , will be held at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church and St. Andrew Episcopal Church , both on West Market Street. Classes are offered in English and Spanish.

“It’s a good way of getting people while they are already at church,” said Melanie McDonough, the chapter’s director of public support .

Nearly everyone is capable of learning and becoming certified in first aid and CPR/automated external defibrillation, which can mean the difference between life and death for someone suffering from sudden cardiac arrest or other medical emergency, McDonough said.

And it matters.

Each year, roughly one million people in the United States suffer from sudden cardiac arrest, and almost half of them will die as a result. Being able to quickly perform CPR or use an automated external defibrillator is crucial in preventing brain damage and improving a victim’s odds for survival.

To check on the dates or register for one of the classes, contact the Red Cross at 333-2111 or online at http://gso.redcross.org.

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James E. Waller, one of the foremost experts on Holocaust studies and genocide, will speak at 7 p.m. Monday at Greensboro College on “Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing.”

Drawing from his book by the same name, Waller uses evolutionary psychology and 20th century genocides — including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, massacres in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and Sunni/Shiite violence in Iraq — to show how ordinary people can become mass murderers.

Waller is an affiliated scholar with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation . He has held international visiting professorships at Technical University in Berlin and Catholic University in Eichstatt, Germany, and has taught at Whitworth University and the University of Vermont.

Waller’s speech, in Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel, is the second installment in the three-year Karl Schleunes Lecture Series at Greensboro College.

Contact Nancy McLaughlin at 373-7049 or nancy.mclaughlin@news-record.com