A Lunch Hour a Week Impacts Lives

Another RP Mover showed up at Great Exchange Covenant Church one Sunday to find his pastor wearing an “Ask me why” nametag.  Taking the bait, he asked “why” and heard some sobering facts about youth drop-out rates in the heart of Silicon Valley (approx. 40% for Hispanic and African-American youth) and decided to volunteer with others from his congregation.

After a few months of corporate sales by day and empowering youth to reach their highest potential at Columbia Middle School by night, he began to mentor a student expelled from the school.  A few weeks later he began using his lunch hour to invest in several students at the school district’s continuation school.  What he found were tough gang impacted youth on the outside and hungry kids wanting acceptance on the inside.

From helping a twelve year old girl seek dental work to replace missing front teeth to taking the kids to SF 49er games and Go Karting, he now has the trust of these kids as they meet with him weekly for a peer support group… all over a lunch hour per week.

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