Adopt A Block

I bet you have read a lot about what Adopt A Block is on our website.
It's a time where everyone goes out to different parts of LA and the sourounding areas and builds relationships with people.
Over the years, The Dream Center has built some pretty amazing foundations for this outreach.
We go to areas like Jordan Downs/Watts, Skid Row, Ramona Gardens, Imperial Courts, and hotels.
People that would probably never speak to you, eventually end up developing a relationship with you and trusting you.

It's amazing to see the same people every week. Sometimes it's really tough to see the circumstances people are in. The places kids have to play in and live, and they don't really have much of a choice. It's all they know and it's all they see. It's a huge blessing to be able to go into those neighborhoods that are gang infested, violence filled, and poverty stricken and be able to show those people they have another choice. It's amazing to see children just completely delighted by you wanting to play with them and give them the attention they deserve, and don't always receive.

By our actions, we hope to show them of a love much deeper than they (or any of us) can comprehend. By building trusting relationships, consistent relationships and unconditional relationships, we begin to see a real change in these people.
Sometimes it takes years of knocking on people's doors before they come to church with us. Sometimes it takes years of knocking on someone's door before they even TALK to us...but when they do...when you finally see that all your effort to help them has been well worth waiting for...when you KNOW that you didn't give up on them and they are finally sitting with you on that bus back to church...its a joy that can't be described.

Any chance to change a life is a chance worth taking.
The Adopt A Block meeting starts at 10 am on saturday mornings in The Dream Center gym and the busses usually leave around 10:30.
Come and see for yourself just how life changing it really is.
Gotta go catch my bus!!

Happy weekend.