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News from Camden=) / Sep 28, 12:35 PM
I’ve been in Camden about 2 weeks now! We’ve been staying at Urban Promise Campus… (a private school and afterschool program) while we’ve been looking for a house… but now we have found one=) and will be moving in on monday! The city is intense, its real and its really hard to describe to anyone what is going on or what its like here to anyone who isn’t here.
I wrote this poem after the 2nd visit to our neighborhood and was struggling w/ culture shock of it all.
In a place where icecream trucks dont just sell icecream,
how can i relate?
when my skin color says i want dop,
what has gone wrong?
How can i be relevant?
The brokenness and hopelessness overwelms me,
yet kids still smile,
the church has a good reputation and is alive!
God is at work let us join him!
God is really showing me that what i have said i believe means sometime new here in the city… when you have seen real hopelessness than hope for the hopeless means so much more.
Thank you for all your prayers! I miss you all and would love to hear from everyone!
e-mail me:
Silent_star812@hotmail.com
or even better send me mail:
Hope Mead
c/o Urban Promise
PO Box 1479
Camden, NJ 08105
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