Old People, Etna Ave, and Diversity

Today Jeremy and I went to the Council on Aging to get some more footage for a video Jeremy is making for them. It was good to see more about what they do. They basically just try to help elderly people in all aspects of life. Good stuff.

The house on Etna is good. We haven't done much to be intentional about this area yet. Hopefully we will. We prayed briefly over the house the other day. I really hope this will be a place of hospitality and community.

I remember a few months ago I was playing volleyball at the university and a car went by with a black guy in it. It was such a rare occurance to see a non-students of a race other than white that everybody acknowledged it in their own way. There is so little diversity here that we get surprised everytime we see it. But, I realized today that it is merely the north side of Huntington that lacks diversity. There are people from a lot of different races here on the south side. They are not in large numbers but they are here. I wish that I had done more to experience the little diversity Huntington offers while I was in college. Hopefully I can make up for it this year.

For the Huntington Project we did the senior expo but we haven't met in a while. Heritage Days are comming up and that is a prime opportunity to get into the community and see what we can do. Hopefully soon we can tie up loose ends with the senior expo and all.

Prayer is key. This community seems so nice and alive in the summer but there are so many secrets here, so many dark allies where people hurt one another, so many homes where children don't feel safe. Prayer is key.