Wow! It seems like things are moving slow but there are a lot of things in the works. We have all the basics on our house now; water, electricity, and heat. Now back to the remodeling project. We are anxious to get it finished so we can start some bible study and community gathering stuff here. We are working on developing our partnership with Hillcrest's Youth Homeless program. We will be mentoring some students, tutoring and helping to develop some activities and ministry opportunities with them. We are helping out with the Grandview Park youth group and getting to know some of the youth. Dana is tutoring one middle school student from the neighborhood and it looks like she may be helping a lot more in the future. I am starting to develop a network of youth and community developers in our area.
I am also developing a bicycle ministry program. I am currently trying to figure out what this will look like and have got some interest from a few of the church leaders in the area. There is nothing like it in the area. There is not even a bicycle shop anywhere close. The concept for this will be training youth to repair bikes and sell them in the neighborhood while developing bike rides and events and possibly work with the city to create some safe spaces for kids to ride. My plan is to get some of the ground work done this winter and launch the program in the spring.
Here is where you can help -> Over the next 3 months or so, I hope to get a number of youth bicycles donated so I have some available when I kick the program off. If you (or friends or neighbors or churches) have any old bikes you are will to donate, let me know. I can pick them up.
