These kids, urban youth, need love. They need love and encouragement. Something they may not have had for a long time.
Jamie G, Arthur, Steve, Holly and I have all been involved with an awesome opportunity to meet, interact, and invest in some urban youths lives this semester. We teamed up with a program called "The Club" hosted at NWBC on Wednesday nights.
Basically it is a mentoring program and afterschool event for the kids, but our role is to go hang out and do some structured games, basketball, and arts and crafts with the kids for 45 minutes every Wednesday.
I just want to say that these kids rock. Toi, Dia, Cortez, Victor, and James are a few of the consistent kids we have been getting to know week in and week out. They are talented middle schoolers at Taft that have so many gifts. We don't know their whole story yet, but they probably have had pretty tough lives. But we talk about suceeding in life, keeping good grades, their dreams in life, and their day to day interactions at school. Simply being consistent in their lives and dreaming with them has impacted them greatly, and us to.
Each week our small group "the Terrace" meets after the club at the Corbin house to do small group and pray for eachother as well as the kids and relationships evolving there.
I want to encourage anyone who has ever wanted to show the love of Christ to anyone to jump into the lives of these okc kids. They need it. They really need you. We would love to have you be a part of our group too.
P.S. December 17th we are going to watch some of the kids from our group do a band recital at Taft auditorium. Should be a christmas event not to be missed. More importantly we hope to meet their parents and further those relationships as well.
God bless and email me anytime if you want to come hang out anytime.
Christopher-corbin@ouhsc.edu
