Food Truck on the Southside

I finally had the chance to speak with Jim this week, a quiet man who usually parks himself in his electric wheelchair at the front of the line when we come by with food. I said hello and he told me how much the Dream Center has been a blessing to him, since he had a stroke in 95’ he has been living on disability allowance. He cheerfully told us ‘You guys really help!’ he has been receiving food and provisions from the Dream Center for over six months now.

It was amazing to see how the line of people now stretched around the street corner as more people came along, since the time I had started to talk to Jim. It was a relatively sunny day and the children were playing close by the doorsteps of their apartments, which I was informed is a normal occurrence for this neighborhood as gang fire happens around here all too often. So the children, are kept close enough to be pulled into their homes by their parents.

I could never imagine that feeling of always being on edge, of fearing for your family’s well being on a daily basis. But they somehow do just this and having the support of the Dream Center’s: food truck, adopt-a-block and the bus ministry to take them to church helps them to have the hope of a better future.

-Chaka