Taco Time!

As promised, I was going to let you know how the new after-school program went. We've now had two "Soul Food 2.0", and we couldn't be more pleased with the outcome! Last week, we were very happily surprised to have eight youth show up after school to hang out, and stay for dinner. This week, we had seven. We knew this might be an experiment as many of our youth aren't used to programs, especially in the traditional sense that we tend to think of it. So, we focused instead on maximizing our relational time with the youth, and building into the family at The Door. Last week, as we served tacos for dinner we had youth helping us set everything out and clean up, and it was an opportunity for all of us to work together.

It was so natural to move into our videos and discussion after, and the thing that we appreciated the most was that the youth that came out and participated in the whole evening were youth that wouldn't normally join us for those programs. The most exciting thing though, was that they all came back last night! We hope that this time together will be an important one to them, and that it will allow us to continue to work with this group of youth, building into their lives in a meaningful way. We hope it will grow as well, but we are so thankful for the way God has brought these youth into our lives and the youth centre!