Help us raise $6,000 before 2011!

God is alive and well here at DOOR Hollywood and we are certainly thankful!  Alayna, Alex, Brady, Josh, Kyle, and Robert are settled in, deeply invested in their work with the homeless as well as the families surrounding 5846 Gregory!  (Click on their names for their ongoing blogs!)  And we need your help to keep this mission thriving: we currently are paying $12,000 annually in property taxes while we work tirelessly to re-establish our legitimate tax-exempt status with California.  All papers are in order and have been for over a year now, but the state is moving slowly.  That $12,000 could nearly cover the living expenses of one Dweller for a year, or it could allow us to send 20 local students from low-income families on a week-long service learning trip in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Miami, or San Antonio, covering program and travel.  Please help while we are in this waiting game, and please pray that we come out from under this requirement soon!  Click here to go directly to our credit card donation processing page.

From our sunrise hike this week.

God is alive and well in this city!

Merry Christmas from DOOR Hollywood!  Click on any photo to see more of the team in action.

Posada, December 13, 2010

Holidays, by Curtis

Our neighborhood ministry has been something that I have really enjoyed being a part of and watching evolve. Thanksgiving was a great time. Some families and kids from the neighborhood came by to spend some of their day with us and eat a really good meal. The bible study on Wednesday nights has continued to go well and I have really enjoyed getting to know the teenagers in our area. Last [month], we had a Posada at our house (A Christmas festival originating in Latin America that dramatizes the search of Joseph and Mary for lodging.) We walked around a couple of blocks holding candles singing Christmas carols. At two different houses, Mary and Joseph knocked on the door to ask if there was “room in the inn” (we designated each of the two houses ahead of time and the occupants read a little script basically telling Mary and Joseph “no.”) We ended the journey at our house, and this time when Mary and Joseph knocked on the door and asked for lodging, of course the response was “yes.” So everyone then proceeded to enter, where the kids and their families were welcomed to deserts, gingerbread house building, and a piñata. A great time was had by all. Merry Christmas!!!

Curtis also is asking everyone to keep Miguel and all the people of Haiti in your prayers. If you can help financially, please click here.