Sunday, January 31, 2010

Our Goals for 2010...



Evangelism Street Team

Goal Start Date- January 28th ( Weekly)

Purpose- To spread the gospel to the youth who hang out on the streets, gang members. Use as an invitational tool to start future Discipleship group.

Progress-We have 3 people on the team so far from the neighborhood.


13 Letter Discipleship Group

Goal Start Date- March 2nd at Oakdale House.( Weekly)

Purpose- To build relationship and deliberitly disciple at risk youth in Hunters Point. We will be going through a hip hop curriculum thats goes through Paul’s Letters.


Youth Basketball Team

Goal Start Date- February or March depending on when the league starts.

Purpose- I will be entering a team into a church league; getting together young

high-school, neighborhood kids with church members to serve as a evangelistic and relationship building tool.


Summer Day Camp

Goal Start Date- June 21st-July 30th ( M-F 6 week duration)

Purpose- To teach younger, at-risk children ages 6-12 about Jesus, as well as, develop reading levels of children. Hunters Point has one of the worst scoring levels in the nation. We will partner with New Home Missionary Baptist Church and a church from Oregon to run this program for 6 weeks.


After School Children’s Group

Goal Start Date- September 2nd ( Weekly) Ages 6-12

Purpose- Continue relationship with kids from Summer Day Camp as they grow up, as well as, helping academically and spiritually!


Neighborhood Internship

Goal Start Date- (September- November)

Purpose - To recruit more staff to work with us here in the neighborhood. Our prayer is to have 2 students come and live with us and to work with us for 3 months in the different areas of the neighborhood to help develop some of these programs and hopefully stay long term.

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  1. Tammy DillonJanuary 31, 2010 at 3:49 PM

    Praying daily for you and the people of your neighborhood as you outreach to those who may have no hope. Stay strong! Love you guys. The Dillons in PG

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  2. UnknownJanuary 31, 2010 at 4:37 PM

    We are so so so proud of you guys. We love you so much and are praying for you! Love what you're going to do this year! We pray you will succeed! Love, Nick and Sara Verwymeren

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Me and Miss Ria

Me and Miss Ria
Ria lives with her Grandmother and is staying with her cousins for the summer here in Hunters Point... she is a true sweetheart in every sense of the word!

Serving Lunches...

Serving Lunches...
Thanks to the government, we have been able to provide FREE lunches to the kids every day!

Being Silly...

Being Silly...
This is Kyra who comes to Day Camp with her sister and two cousins... she is every bit as adorable as she is in this photo!

Getting 'Mummy-fied'!!!

Getting 'Mummy-fied'!!!
This is one of the crazy games we played with the kids this week...

Haning Out...

Haning Out...
David hanging out with the kids as we wait for their rides to pick them up...

Summer Day Camp 2010!!

Summer Day Camp 2010!!
Group picture taken at Golden Gate Park this week...

Our Neighborhood

We live on the south-side of San Francisco in a forgotten neighborhood made up of over 30,000 residents. 61% of our neighbors are African-American. 16% are Hispanic and 8% are of Asian decent. Of the 30,000 neighbors we have, 134 are Caucasian. Needless to say, we stand out a little bit!


Gun shots and sirens are a regular occurence here in our neighborhood. There are 16 known gangs located within our streets. Our neighbors have the highest asthma and infant mortality rate in the state of California. Apart from those issues, our neighborhood is home to many other health related problems due to the fact that it is built on an old Naval Shipyard which was abandonded shortly after WW2. To this day, it releases toxic chemicals into the air.


As we have spent time studying the neighborhood, it is easy for us to get overwhelmed by ALL the problems, but God has kept revealing to us the potential of this neighborhood if His people would turned to Jesus.


The Vision...

Due to the numerous gangs in our neighborhood, it is extremelly complicated and difficult to hold community wide events. With each gang comes a complete territory, creating lines that can not be crossed. For that reason, we have broken up the neighborhood into 5 key areas. Four of the areas are different public housing projects. The fifth is around the corner from where we live.


Our plan is to start engaging the youth in programs such as sports clinics, dance clubs, art/graffiti groups, etc... to offer them a positive alternative to gang life. Our desire is that these ‘clubs’ would lead into discipleship groups located in the 5 key areas. We would eventually like to partner with local churches and key leaders in the community to form a youth church. We hope to start our first discipleship group here in our home and help run sports clinics at the local recreation center later this year. We are also constantly out on the streets, telling young people about Christ, and building relationship with them. We are in the process of turning our garage into a mini-youth center equipped with a X-box, TV, and, hopefully, a pool table. We want to offer a safe place for youth to hang out instead of being out on the streets.