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Yesterday, we stopped by to see our friend Patty at her work place, Youth Enterprise, before going out for dinner with her. Patty was one of Kristy's house mates after college and was also a bride's maid in our wedding. She's recently become the Executive Director of YE, a youth outreach organization here in Minneapolis. YE hires teenagers in the inner city to make t-shirts and currently employes an average of about 54 young people. Teens who get a job with YE are also mentored in life skills (including personal financial management and goal setting) and discipled in the ways of Jesus. YE gets customized orders to make t-shirts from hip-hop groups as well as from churches for mission projects or camps. They also make their own line of t-shirts and print the shirts for all of Youth Works mission trips.
It's a really exciting initiative and one that benefits at-risk young people in the toughest parts of Minneapolis. So here's the question: If you're looking to buy t-shirts for an event (or for whatever reason) why buy from a company who's only interest is to make money when you can buy from YE who serves urban teenagers in the name of Jesus and can give you just as good a product at competitive pricing??
I've got a handful of pictures from our visit to YE, but for some reason Blogger isn't having any of it at the moment. I'll ty again later.
Categories: justice, mission
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2 comments:
Brandon,
A good friend of mine, Jeff Carver, just left Youth Enterprise, and I think the girl you mention, Patty replaced him as executive director. I think he now is at Youth Works. Anyway, I guess six degrees of seperation may be more real than we know. Take care.
Ron Stuart
'Tis a small world indeed, Ron! From what I could tell, Youth Enterprise was actually started by the folks at Youth Works. Pretty sweet vision to take your event t-shirts demand and turn it into an outreach to inner-city youth!
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