Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22:37-39)
Tylor (below) and Brianna & Lyric (above) at Park day- Every Friday the Skid Row LAPD clear out, clean up and stand guard at Gladys Park so that the local kids may have their weekly romp in one of the only grassy areas on Skid Row. Several local groups, along with LA Parks and Rec. bring activities for the kids to do, organize games, lead art projects and 'referee' soccer, bball and football games. I frequently leave the park with sore arms from lifting kids onto the monkey bars and turning the jump rope for 4 hours :-) worth it!
Tylor (below) and Brianna & Lyric (above) at Park day- Every Friday the Skid Row LAPD clear out, clean up and stand guard at Gladys Park so that the local kids may have their weekly romp in one of the only grassy areas on Skid Row. Several local groups, along with LA Parks and Rec. bring activities for the kids to do, organize games, lead art projects and 'referee' soccer, bball and football games. I frequently leave the park with sore arms from lifting kids onto the monkey bars and turning the jump rope for 4 hours :-) worth it!
Katana- She taught herself to swim, literally :-)
Desiree and Duriel at the Biola Halloween Event-Biola University (Christian Univ.), does the local community a great service both on a weekly basis as well as on Halloween night! Not only do we have a great deal of consistent mentors from Biola that come work with our kids, but on Halloween night one of the girls dorms decorated itself like Candyland the game board in order to provide a safe place for kids to go trick-or- treating! The mentors that come during the week put on a carnival for our kids then divided up to take our kids through Candyland. Praise God for all our volunteers!
