GTI stands for "GTI".
A few years ago, my band was looking for a location in town to hold our worship concerts and a friend connected us with the manager of a Motel, weekly/monthly accommodation for folks who can't afford first and last, deposit on the phone, credit check etc. He let us use the room for free. Partly because there are no washrooms or other running water, other than the brown stuff that comes in through the roof.
Residents of the motel would come to the concerts, but we realized we weren't getting to know them at all and started praying and talking about alternatives.
Short version: In the fall of 2006 we started having pot luck dinners once a week, serving between 25 and 40 people. Since then our Dinner team has grown from 3 to I don't know how many, including people who live there and people who don't.
Most of the meals are currently provided by groups from 8 different area churches, who take turns monthly or bi-monthly planning, preparing and bringing wonderful home cooking to our little corner.
Our friends are all very low income and the motel is, for many, the last alternative they have to the street. The building is badly neglected and deteriorating.
We have brunch once a month, with a story, and Dinner on Wednesdays and all sorts of life in between and it's awesome.
All of the stories on this blog are true. The descriptions of people are factual. Not composites, not fictions. Real people. Real lives.
A few years ago, my band was looking for a location in town to hold our worship concerts and a friend connected us with the manager of a Motel, weekly/monthly accommodation for folks who can't afford first and last, deposit on the phone, credit check etc. He let us use the room for free. Partly because there are no washrooms or other running water, other than the brown stuff that comes in through the roof.
Residents of the motel would come to the concerts, but we realized we weren't getting to know them at all and started praying and talking about alternatives.
Short version: In the fall of 2006 we started having pot luck dinners once a week, serving between 25 and 40 people. Since then our Dinner team has grown from 3 to I don't know how many, including people who live there and people who don't.
Most of the meals are currently provided by groups from 8 different area churches, who take turns monthly or bi-monthly planning, preparing and bringing wonderful home cooking to our little corner.
Our friends are all very low income and the motel is, for many, the last alternative they have to the street. The building is badly neglected and deteriorating.
We have brunch once a month, with a story, and Dinner on Wednesdays and all sorts of life in between and it's awesome.
All of the stories on this blog are true. The descriptions of people are factual. Not composites, not fictions. Real people. Real lives.