Education

• Expand what is already working into more churches, more schools!
• Training program for mentors/ tutors?”
• How many church have seen this presentation?
• Go to all churches where they are
• Go to the churches rather than them come to us
  
• Go to them/ marketing
• Open church in neighbors- go to church as for help
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  Advertise locally
• Share building (exactly what bridges use)
• Church/ community kid centers are not open in Fridays
• Market already existing at community centers
• English students /LEP ESL/LED
• Go to local pastor groups 10% part downtown alliance
• Talk to Huddle
• Great Banquet
• 5% kids come to bridges to stay away from home.
• Head start/ 21^st cent = Marilyn Skinner KAK
• Education of the church- understanding
• What can we do now!
• Get into schools
• Coordinate churches
• Call schools need help!
• Establish relationship there - school- church
• Educate churches on adopting schools!
• If church cant’s go to school
• Who do we contact- Jeff KUO
• Middle School/ High School should not be neglected – battle the problem
• Elementary useful prevent problem
• Relationship
• Children with in sports
• Adult/ family class programs
• Breach the cycle
• Schools as a distribution center for food

Recap:

• Expansion (existing programs)
• Go to them (congregation presentation)
• Marketing (local)
• After-hours use church facility
• Sports (neighborhoods)
• Schools- willing to use
• Community centers
• ESL/ LEP
• School/ pantry
• All schools relationships
• Education/ church

Youth and Children Programs

Enough programs?

Not well known, marketing an issue

Transportation to the activity is the problem

Somebody has to subsidize program if particpants can't pay

Possible problems

Gap parent and kids

At risk kids can’t afford it

If things cost money how do we bridge the gap

Step back and look at programs and see what impact the lives of our children

Possible problem: Church not willing to work together (deep seeded mistrust)

The community foundation will help support a discussion community forum

Get the church to take care of its neighbored—minister to the neighborhood and listen to the needs.

Market better

Share opportunities

Community forum

All pro dad programs

Carver Center untapped resource not just basketball ie computer labs etc.

Could churches sponsor a student at Carver center for $12.00 per year?

Market better

Share opportunities

Collaborate

Community forum

Church has to come outside the walls

Needs to be a clearing house with information

Youth sports

Mentoring developing trust

Newsletters at schools to go home with info

Make a link with youth pastors

Partner with Great Banquet, Huddle, Youths sport programs

Possible "pick up" sports day where kids just show up and play a game, learning as they play

Lots of empty church gyms on Friday and Saturday.

Family Homelessness and Single Father issues

• Cam House- emergency housing for 3 families (planning)
• Purchase houses/ condos/ apts for continuum of care
• Ministerial Assoc become involved
• How to staff and maintain? Houses
• Research what other cities are doing- Logansport Emmaus Ministries
• Staffing could make jobs of houses
• Get small business interested
• Breakdown barriers of competition among churches
• Groups of churches working together to solve a specific problem- doing a great deal for an issue not a little for many issues
• This is a generational problem
• Research how many homeless families and single father families need to be served
• Relationships with people
• How to get churches on board
• Contact 211, Cam, Kokomo Rescue Mission, Schools for hard numbers
• Get Budget established
• Not a handout, but a handup
• 3 main issues in getting things started
• Get data chronically homeless.
• Get working budget on paper to run a house
• Get church to focus together on one issue.( make a plan for individual churches)
• Small business scoped to help with sustainability of program

Road blocks:

• Competing between churches
• Fear
• Weakness of relationship between pastors n the community
• Churches fear loss of money for internal uses.

Food Insecurity

• How can we fix the problem?
• What’s the next step
• People should not be going hungry in our community
• aim at better nutrition not just more to eat- better choices
• Access to food/ can’t get groceries at convenience stores- the cost is prohibitive at end of moth they are out of food at beginning of month the buy a lot because they have been hungry for the last 10 days
• Pantries need to make sure the food goes together
• Pasta- sauce
• Cereal- milk
• May not have a refrigerator to keep things cold
• Could a church do milk?
• Coordination of churches and food banks
• Crisis center has fridges/ can we use some to give to food banks
• There are lots of food banks that people don’t know about

• Food banks must rely on donations and sometimes they don’t come in
• Summer- kids only can eat- not parents
• Not published enough that there is food for kids in summer- grant for schools
• Sometimes kids eat at school through week- but have little on the weekend
• Food (lunch) Spirit Wind Church - Wednesday
• Food (lunch) Fresh Start- Tuesday
• Kokomo Rescue Mission -every day
• Teach parents the right things to cook
• In summer while kids are out of school they eat more so the food stamps don’t go as far
• Can groceries come to downtown for the urban people
• Would grocery stores shuttle folks to their stores
• Get to know your neighbors talk to them- visit them
• Get out of your church walls- to see what people need
• Group used to sponsor milk vouchers
• Food pantry communications need some meeting where people can agree
• Need list of all food pantries (1^st/ step)
• So every church will know how to reach pantries
• Golden choral, etc. can put food they don’t use in freezer and volunteers can pick up and distribute- is it legal
• Send e-mails to all about food pantries meetings
• Angel Food Ministries/ all churches are with-in walking distance
• Why can’t we do this with local groceries
• Churches could distribute
• Could feed for whole month (Angel food)
• Could be people in your church- even is you don’t know it- they might be going hungry
• May just have just one week of a little extra
• Not asking for help
• Sometimes its pride
• Make just a little too much
• 1 church in charge to distribute
• Advertise what needs are
• Pantries could swap if one has too much of something and the other has something else- etc. cereal for tomato sauce
• Needs could be put on web site
• Community garden maybe people could be taught to can tomatoes- green beans- potatoes
• Non-essential items
• Tooth paste/ tooth brush- diapers/ toilet paper/ detergent
• Food stamps do not pay for
• People usually need toilet paper- this is what they look for
• If you have never went hungry- you really don’t understand what is like
• Doing what Jesus told us to do- if you love me feed my sheep- feed my lambs- not just spiritual
• Most problems core from being hungry
• Can’t concentrate
• Can’t think
• Can’t make decisions
• Go to bed without dinner tonight and not breakfast in the morning- see how well you can think
• Transportation should not enter if all churches would be involved in food distribution
• Find people outside your church
• Churches-soup kitchens- alternate weekends
• Angels Food Ministries- or the like
• Churches could take turns cooking- staffing- distribution
• Church buses used to get people to get food (groceries) (volunteers- staffing- drivers-gas)
• Could also deliver groceries to people
• Volunteers are the main issue
• Need to be coordinated (communications)
• Model after meals on wheels as far as distribution
• How many soup kitchens?
• Meal everyday- shared by several churches
• Different groups of churches (then one from each group come together)
• Would you be willing to have poor needy to fish fries, chic and noodles, etc. for free?
• Get all for community- needs one person in charge- then a committee to let everyone know what we have and what is needed
• Keep in touch with Jeff after meeting with your churches to see what they think your need are