Kids Camp 2011

Here it comes—a season of drinking lemonade, taking trips to the library, and playing in the sprinkler on the lawn. This summer, add “sharing the love of Jesus” to your summer list by adopting a week of programming or applying to serve as an AmeriCorps member for summer Kids Camp 2012.

Volunteer groups plan and implement activities for youth ages K-8^th grade for one of the eight weeks of Kids Camp. AmeriCorps members serve throughout the summer, building relationships with neighborhood children and investing daily in their lives.

In 2011, over 100 youth participants, 50 volunteers, and 11 outstanding AmeriCorps members combined to make Kids Camp at the Frank Garrett “the best summer of [one participant’s] life!!!” Join us in playing, learning, growing, and serving the community this summer!

Event Date is February 25th

Adopting the West End Park

I had so much fun painting and helping Urban Connection’s park look awesome! I really enjoyed spending time with the kids and seeing them contribute to their community.

Adopt a Park is one of the best community service events I love to attend. Although the kids and I are not professional painters, the park looks great. It is awesome to see kids at such a young age help keep the park stay clean and have pride in it.

I hope to attend many more Adopt a Park’s!

- Janet

KIPP University, RollModels joined West End Neighbors and Urban Connection for our first Adopt-A-Park work day of 2012. We painted, watered trees, swept and racked leaves. We even got an opportunity to play a little at the end! Hope you can join us next month on Feb 18th.

Adopt A Park 01/21/2012
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As a leader there are days, weeks, even months where it feels as no one loves you.  People are talking to everyone but you.  You can feel the tension just under the surface.  People are angry, caught up in emotion and they don’t even know the whole story, just the parts they think they see.  Around the office a couple of us have adopted the phrase “they are making it all up” because there is no way they can really know what is happening, because if they did, they’d calm the heck down.

Where do you turn when, as Monica says,  in the song, Don’t Take It Personal, “it’s just one of them days”?

I spend my time alone,  in a time of praise, worship and meditation. During this time HE reminds me that no matter what people may think or say about me, He is jealous for me…Oh, HE love me…

Leadership isn’t easy.  Pray for leaders everyday. Whether the person is your boss, or the President of the United States.

And if as leaders, we are not making, what you feel, are good decisions then stop bumping your gums.  PRAY.  There is nothing that your friend or neighbor can do, but God is the one that can change a leaders heart.

ALL leadership is ordained by God, so if you have an issue, go to HIM.

However in going to HIM you also have to trust HIM… Selah

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Steve Jobs

The park clean up worked out really well. All the hard work from the volunteers and families from the community really worked hard together to complete the job. I am very proud to be a part of Urban Connection and glad I got to experience this moment.

Sincerely,
Valerie Froreich (Americorps Staff)

This is Kane Bryant and I’m posting about my wonderful trip to the MLK March on January 16, 2012. I really enjoyed the trip and the march. I met many new people there and also learned much more than my previous knowledge of the Great man, Martin Luther King Jr. The festivities were all so insightful and overall, everything was just a great experience.