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Oklahoma City has gone through a Renaissance in the last few years:
Bricktown, the canal, the river,
new buildings.
A real exciting time
but it's not been exciting time for a lot of kids, more of them living in poverty,
more of them separated from the parents than ever before
but on this episode of Found Causes will take you inside two groups that are
helping a lot of these kids
taking care of the physical part of our city
now must take care of the souls of our city, the people.
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I've never been out of the suburb,
never been in the inner city
I'd never been to places where people are fed meals, when they come to get fed a meal
it's something
they're counting on
because they may not have any food at home. I'd never interacted with a
homeless person.
I had never really seen
multiple people in one place
being
struggling with addiction and maybe even being drunk when coming to church. Here you know
kids may have to worry about where
are they sleeping when they get home, what are they going to eat, how are they even getting
home
it's just a very unstable, very chaotic life. There's too many kids on the street
and
there's no care
out there in that world. Kids just walkin' and
talkin'
just a lot of
stuff that's gonna game in trouble in the end.
Jubilee Partners is a nonprofit organization
there has been formed to help at-risk youth
our mission is to work with at-risk youth during out of school hours and
mainly after-school programming during school year but then also during the
summer we have a summer kids club.
These kids have a lot of obstacles to overcome I mean just from
their home life, education and even
food I mean we have kids that you know don't get three meals a day.
I began working in this neighborhood seven and a half years ago
with the church in the community
I got to know a lot of the children and their families. You know a lot of them don't have parents that are gonna read to them
or help them with their homework... things like that, you know, that's kinda what we do. Step in and
you know provide support so they can be successful
I would start working with the kids and we started just tutoring one
day and weekend began to see all these need to adding on top of each
other and
the kids really needing more and more stability from adults. The more I got to
experience what was going on here from the inside out and not just
looking in
the more I realized how much of a sense of family there was here among these
kids
they all come from very broken homes
and
they
they've practically been in diapers together they've known each
other since they were very very little. Just really
thought Lord,
if there's something I can do what would that be?
I've always been amazed with the concept of Jubilee and the release
of the prisoner and everybody being restored to
the way that God created things and I thought, man, if these kids could just be
restored to having a healthy and whole life
if we could be a part of that
and knowing that I wasn't able to do it on my own, that it would take lots of other people
being involved.
When I come to Jubilee Partners I lead worship sometimes when I come down here
most often times.
I've had the privilege of giving some impromptu guitar lessons sto
children as young as
six, seven years old
which has been really rewarding. We begin the summer with taking our students to
Shiloh Camp you've which is here in Oklahoma City for at-risk kids,
for inner-city kids
and we do educational field trips. We try to go to the zoo every
summer and the science museum and just places that they can go and learn about
maybe something they can do with their life whenever they're done with their
schooling. Well, we do all kinds of things there's you know there's games, board games
that you play
we've got a little kitchen set over here that the girls absolutely love
then we have a backyard that
they do all kinds of games. They've got
football they've got got volleyball. They have twenty minutes of reading time that's
required by us.
We found a lot of the kids we were working with are very behind
in their reading so as we have enough volunteers we work one-on-one
with there reading so they can
improve their reading skills. You know we talk to them about things that go on in their day
we talk to them about their family,
just get to know 'em.
We tell 'em about our life and, you know, just talk. We play football
you know pick them up when they skin their knees, try to sweep the floors as much as we can
wash the dishes and stuff, s we just do a little bit of everything,
whatever needs to be done
but mainly we're here to love the kids and
teach 'em a little bit, but they teach us more than we ever teach them.
we actually recently became partners with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
and they are
our sponsor to have us as a Kid's Cafe site, and so the kids, every day, come
and they're able to receive a snack and a meal
and the food is provided by the food bank.
Is she being a good teacher? She helping you learn a lot? And I'm actually eating my grapes.
You're eating your grapes?
What's you favorite snack, again? Macaroni.
Just macaroni and cheese, right?
And tacos.
And tacos? I have a lot of favorite foods.
Oh, that's good
It's good to eat a lot of different kinds. I'm like that, too. I get bored of eating the same
stuff all the time.
We need volunteers, we need
people to come be
involved with the kids working with them hands on, and that might be
tutoring, it might be mentoring,
it might be playing sports,
teaching music
or some other skill, we'd love to have people coming in and teach various
skills and hobbies. I would say
an exchange student leaders
i really believe that meeting
comes from serving other people in services
i think this is a great opportunity that this is where and when you had a save
people and learning in which is a gracious enough to forgive my mistake
insider i would love to see more people my age coming down learning a lot of
them
we also have needs or an
just assistance the people banking do things like building maintenance or
and helping us with our computers and internet connection which always seems
to be
inicio
i which needs help with marketing
and fundraising if anyone has those types of skills we are glad to talk to
you and see if that be something you could do to help us out
other things done taking the time
maybe an hour to meet or an hour to the money
the real world for what used to use an open
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you know compassion and it has made
ninety three el my relationship with bag economy overall an egg and lying about
his every week every day employment and in it
they're nice but i never hear looks like
beating inside and to really until i started here
and i had no idea that looks like in everyday life and i have the opportunity
to to shamisen but it looks like to get to be hard as god's begin story
it's a different way to serve
have the opportunity to invest in a life
surgically partners
educate the kids
they teach leadership with the kids here
com there is a
continual progression of responsibility that they are given
as they go from being the ones that are being then forward to mentoring other
younger kids
so it's a it's a very powerful equation i have working here
i'm thankful picking
fishing probably after the story
it's a very important
kitten
teach man
have a lot of things on the line
and family
doing straight
do they work
it's very important
you're seeing more and more younger people coming out of that mindset
morning step back and get rid of
social problems
gauge
this is some really exciting to be a part of
the first part of my beauty you know i won't be a part of this city are
problems in the city and you know
i feel like it's it's my job to
tryin or correct those problems and some known part of this community and so i
guess just
being able to do whatever i can to make that happen
affixed to see something a place like this year
grace which is another trip
i think they're learning
where things here they would be out there who knows playing around on the
street
one of our students take her at the same repaired
uh... really
had a hard time and with his life
dad was incarcerated for a while with drug dealing in houston
as i think decided he was going to have a different
different future
and he just started and you this week and he said he setting aerospace
engineering
we accept that it is
he is an in a part of the spring since it started in it
every young person he just knew he wanted something different when he was
thirteen years old he is coming over to the church in
asking me what he can do to help the fanfare on a saturday he is
come over and clean tables for me and whenever he can be learned
and then he became the first team leaders and really helped me to huge
impact on our younger students
what's happening here
is
who's gonna answer for tomorrow
and if we don't take care of our babies today our kids today
there's not going to be any answers tomorrow
there's not going to be anyone
can say
i know how to do that i can help you
i can take you into might mean because somebody to communities
this is final
everybody has a busy life and i know that
and they think
gosh cannot even invest in other our here there
i've seen
amazing returns in the lives of the kids that i spent time with
i see them growing
applying themselves in school
i see them uh... beginning to believe in themselves for the very first time in
their life
and i'm looking at that and say and so for three hours a week i could have the
opportunity to impact someone's life for the rest of their life
it makes it
absolutely worthwhile
but that might help
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in the shadow of downtown with billions of dollars of instead
lies one of the poorest neighborhoods and all of oklahoma
yet you believe partners believes these kids in this neighborhood
they deserve the same opportunities
so why don't you partner was
to find out how
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that things that they've experienced individually things that i know that
some of some of the people of the here are some of the students enter here
i know that
you know they're protect their current stories they come from v_h_s_ we also
take them from
grandparents are raising their kids kids
they come from parents that families have fragmented sometimes a mother may
be in prison or that that may be in prison
uh... a myriad of uh... reasons that they can hear
let's talk soon is that
got readings us from that and that this place is offering that help to them so
we want them to understand that uh...
have to be
other than what makes
that is something children is a place where children can comment kinda regroup
a time where they can understand what life is about
work on some of the how is the source of herself and emotionally
uh... time or we can help them understand what families like families
about especially time we can help them understand the love of our lord jesus
christ he fell like a such a thing together right
he had a lot and i were long enough but not as this is an air and
plantation safe at the family
if they're placing them i mean they treat
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but everybody i'll rift in how much the patio
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any anna see that this man like me the
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we call this foster family cottages that really
defines that they're more like kids that are in foster care
and it is a family cottage many house mother and house father
uh... they they raise the kids like their own
reasoning that this was a place for us began
decades you just have to have this colleen and excellent just cleaner
already have
feeding so many things in life that contains ten
because for advancing printing this knowing that this is where god wanted it
even though their family has fallen apart sometimes they
haven't come across that can make they should have done something different
their parents' divorce
domestic violence and that come with a gun or could have done with my thoughts
we have to have them understand now with an adult made adult sources
your choices on the other hand you made by yourself
for yourself but ever since he wrote it was a
skydive called it's kind of from the bag and i came from just kind of culture
shock act any ship request and i think you could please pass out skynet easy
for me and gets tate an *** encourage other counselor fair
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uh... so we have eight cottages with up to eight residence in detroit
well how do you ever seen in in just doesn't just study area
and the kids can use the computers and and do their homework eric the internet
back here
and then we also have just read of your head
along truth that we have to washington to dryers name that we have the kitchens
missus happens in my favorite thing that the whole house mad like a profit
the kitchen is that all the girls like to help me have been found it seems like
a really big kitchen that then whenever everyone comes around here usually power
around then
islands in everyone's talking together
premarital and among their own bathroom
and we get to and fight
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for the last half being
spring madeleine
they say is that they were tonight
and and that there's a first
it's wonderful like
because this is my own life personal space second hike discontent jeancar me
whenever i want to i have to worry about having xmas coming in and all the time
ekkada site cuz my door in it's like finalisation ari
hella trophy at their for senate service head
because i attend others before me
from difficult when i can bring in person comes because it really indicates
that there's been some problems in the family and
families fallen apart so it's not a victory doll the child has to come to
the baddest children's home but there's an excitement that we get to show them a
different kind of life and get to help them when they come through one of the
first things we do is generally make eight
like might make a welcome final composer
and any map of the door
when they come as a difficult time to go to a new home a new school
introduced a church so everything is new for them so it's very important during
that time that we give them all the time and grace and and understand that we can
sometimes will keep them home the first and foremost in time in ten years to get
to know them really well and
ted koppel in jackson between you and i mean it's a big change from where they
were before
sometimes we had seven girls in a room and seven or been here for one one's
rendu
as typical so i have friends have to really work with kate was locked when
you were here remit remember that and maybe you can help them start off good
too
scared experience a lot of last year they are not moved her family and their
friends in their school anymore so
just hop the majestic being in a place in
fifteen people
becoming katchor the ropes and
and what might not to do and can explain to her while reducing beings and how it
is sending sticks a lot of gap
for her
so it's kinda and different for of at enhanced
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inflationary different here than it might have been a home are riveting
living before seventy from the determinant is trying to help them build
the most comfortable
with the change that are happening
discipline
little things like air conditioning
washer dryer
showers
heating air
closings liked
one where we live in st on the school sometimes and we have to return to close
the school
discontent washington's electricity was off we'll have to do that now
we started asking
uh... what if we could do more
instead of waiting for the family of fall apart for everything that just
fragment right in front of house face could we keep the children with their
mother
they have several different types of classes spring beautiful becoming
financially
candidates
pots actually managing the proper way
how big your state you know
realizing that you had they live with their mother father mother is working on
her skills of parenting than uh... financiers and vocational educational
bob at mother's work at home and these kids live here just like the other kids
in the safe secure living environment you know you're going to be able to go
and you know that your children again be able to do well for themselves and for
that themselves in
fine and then i have great family is in
not have to worry about you know them trying to situation every kid
we have a spouse does it lead to every year in august visit for a living
piece that has an amount of money that they would raise the pentagon spending
volunteers help our kids go and pick up close and distant them all the
excitement
one set of
runaway bcos
yesterday's clothes that they wear on the runway only selected from the last
six years of the *** in or
water selfesteem bills are it is for these kids
when so many people are clapping for them to come and they do feel like
mister mister
a look and let let's talk about priorities that i mean what are your
priorities or what should be your priorities
school
adhere relationship with god
school their friends
as any is she going out order
you know back first
and everything else so far president clinton act
for the past couple of years i've gotten two in c
uh... the style show for for the upon about discounts for children and
i have to say i mean i'd i'd get the opportunity and see a lot of events
and test i'll show is what my favorites first of all it's for such oftentimes
and second of all to wouldn't want to go and watch precious kids
walk run for their brand new back to school closed whether biggest advances
our bike ride that happens is you know they've been here
we have for twenty five and six hundred riders and then some other family
members and then we also have about a hundred and forty volunteers
times for a week
wi fi
closed the nine hundred people that day it's becoming a big
event to raise money but it's also
an event that lets people know we're here
who were part of the community were serving the community and we want them
to come and see what we're doing for kids
it's not enough just to have house parents and staff
that reflect and and spend time with two other people need to do that even when
someone comes and works on the flower beds are plays games with them and and
uh... in a g_m_ they know somebody else care it's important for these kids know
that someone besides s
cares for them
even just listening to those girls top about
haiti even just listening to bring a story about cutting that she's had her
relationship with god
book what he did
sit and look how he blesses
so many people you never knew i could last summer's to be harassment line
interviewed and coming infill defeated and
means the film
he might be didn't have a lot of work
and then to see them grow into changing and to start doing that in their school
work and to start doing
good and and their boundaries and the choices they're making
and steven just one
there is nothing like it
being his change may sound much like i've contacted the uh... pathetic
prolonging and adlai were about ice possibility and how to be in the chair
and
helped prepare me for a future and most amazing thing to me as a path to keeping
him out
they concede that there are people who
at their level bone that there is hope that they don't have to be defined by
their past and what happened to them
times left hand and he has a great purpose in their life and we're god
wants me to be
and i am exactly furniture out that he has to do that's the same spectrum that
i wished
every person has
have great satisfaction knowing that
but i do directly impacts the lives of young people
and that's a that's a great
i found my cat
i found my cards
i found my cops
great kids in a wonderful staff at the baptist children's home
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