A few months ago I saw on Facebook that the students at Roosevelt High School were reaching out to the community for help and hosting a downhill meeting at Boyle Heights City Hall. The school lacked leadership and student pride. RHS went through a major administrative reorganization in the last few years and a new…
A pregnant lady and a young couple walk across the street. No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. The morning of the last Saturday in April, my wife, myself, and a friend of our who is 8 1/2 months pregnant walked the streets of Boyle Heights picking up trash. We parked at the…
The Mission: Impossible movies made more than $2 billion worldwide. $2,000,000,000. That’s a lot of money. People enjoy seeing Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise, defy the odds to stop traitors and terrorist from destroying the world as we know it. But I always had a problem with the initial title of the TV and…
Boyle Heights is in need of a new story. Currently this urban neighborhood, immediately east of Downtown Los Angeles, is bursting with pain. The city is cursed with single family homes and deep poverty. God’s story’s for Boyle Heights is not one filled with pain, but of hope, healing, and unity. We aim to bring…