Adopt a Block!

So every Saturday at the Dream Center is Adopt a Block!! They sent out teams to a hand full of housing projects and needy neighborhoods in the LA area... they have been building relationships with these neighborhoods for months and years! They go to the neighborhoods and give away bus loads of donated food and then go door to door asking if anyone needs prayer, hanging out with the kids in the neighborhoods and then inviting to take any kids from the ages of 12 to 19 to come back to the Dream Center to hangout playing games, getting fed, and going to evening youth group church and then they will be bused back to their neighborhoods....

So when I went to breakfast this morning, I ran into a guy that I met last time I was here named Shelly... Last time I was here he told me I should have gone on his adopt-a-block because his is the best, they go to the neighborhoods right around the Dream Center... so I ran into him, he kind of remembered me and said something along the lines of great, so you'll join us today right? perfect! We're short handed today, lets go you can help us get all the food ready to ship out for when we leave after the prayer meeting!! So off we went!

It was a good time, had a couple of the people in the neighborhoods yell at us, they didn't really want Jesus at all! That's ok...



Right now I am reading "Tramp for the Lord" by Corrie Ten Boom and I read the awesomest thing in there last night... "'Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world' Matthew 28:30... what I spent , I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have..." I just thought I would share that! It has definitely been different here, not simply because I am in a big city I don't live in (...yet), but also because it isn't the community of people I am used to, but God is faithful to be my Father and comfort and he is faithful to break my heart for the people here when I ask for it! I'd be nowhere without him!

--Happy Blogging
kim