I have been in Atlanta for three weeks now, and I love it! Although, I miss family and friends, Atlanta is quickly becoming my new home. I'm becoming familiar with faces and names, the Marta system and just the community in general. I meet interesting people everyday, and almost all encounters are warm and welcoming which make it that much easier to feel like home. This feeling of being at home gives me a sense of what it is like to be a true neighbor and to live in community.
I started work on Monday! I work at Cafe 458, as assistant kitchen manager, and I also work at SAY Yes an after school program at my church. I have not yet assumed the role as asst. kitchen mangager because I'm just learning how to cook. Lucky the staff and regular volunteers there are amazing and making it very easy to learn and run the kitchen. At the Cafe we serve homeless that are going thru a program to become self sufficent. Since it is a program I am able to see the same faces every few days. This will hopefully allow me to become friends with them, learning there stories and sharing mine with them as well. I love working in the kitchen. To be honest at first I was skeptical about the whole thing. I was nervous that I would mess something up when it came to the cooking part, but thanks to some very great people I'm learning the art of cooking quickly. I hope to take what I learn in the kitchen back to Tennessee or wherever God takes me from here.
Like I said I also work in an after school program that serves our neighborhood in English Avenue. The program is for students k-8. I mostly work with 3-5. This is quickly becoming a blessing in my life. I do a Bible study with all students k-5 on Monday's and I help tutor students 3-8 everday. I love getting to work with kids of the neighborhood. I hope to develope a mentorship with a few of the students. I believe in all the kids in the program. They are all exceptionally smart, not that it surprises me in the least. I can not wait to see the children develope over the year!
Thanks again for all your prayers. I have to sign off. Grace and Peace.
In Christ,
Adam
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