Dream Center

I love stories of redemption and restoration.

Last night I heard Matthew Barnett speak. He runs an organization in Los Angeles called the Dream Center. Basically what they do is help broken people find healing and purpose and a new life.

He brought some of the people they've helped with him to tell their story. It was amazing. The people that come to the dream center have been abandoned, beaten, raped, shot, stabbed, or... they have done those things to other people.

They were once homeless, destitute, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, gang members... now they are whole people who are part of the solution of helping others. They once had every thing taken from them... now they have courage, hope, love, a purpose and a future.

You don't hear stories like this in the news, but it's happening. I can think of no greater cause than helping those that society has written off.