11 news and death. and as we all gradually emerged from our pandemic, it’s p obvious that we’re all goingbetter. Normal for many people who lost their j, their businesses who battled , depression or even addi. The crisis in many cases is just beginno continued to struggle. who face challenges getting back to the classroom Angelenos who find themselves desperate need, there’s a place been helping giving a helping hand to a lot people for a quarter century. That’s the Los Angeles Dream Center and joining us talk about that is Pastor Matthew Barnett, the founder of Center and Welcome Good to see you, Pastorgood to be with you. And what is it you’re doing to try to help people right now as Transition goes on from pandemic to post pandemic. Yeah you know, I think we’re seeing kindyed reaction, little bit as we deal with the year two of the pandemic. You know why I church out of the hospita 24 hours, uh 700 residents that live here. And every day we have people up at our doorstep just wanting to be helped. We sai five million people during the pa. We’re feeding people11 hours a day, seven days a week. And we driving through to get food and they would drive through a second time I would say, why are you coming th time? You alreadyThey said. I just can’t buy a second time because I wanted somebody to cheer for me and fact that I was coming through t. There’s not , but I think there’s also iritking place and that’s what’s doorstep. Now there’s a lot of people that. addictions andfind themselves now neededvery h never even touched that drugs, and manyhe aftermath of some of the young peopl who were providingts for them to get out and enjoy bit to do some things like. This we’re giving away 5000 pairs of shoes to kids in the we’re starting start to feel like they can live again and dre, and that’s we’re trying to do the dream d the need. Butlly just support the comeback in going Yeah, the support the comeback and t very important way to frame th. I guess this is a very large imposing building off of the freeway, right. It’s right off of area. Yeahht. It’s a bi old Queen of Angels one on one uh and again there’s of people living here and the g about it is, you know, we deal with homelessness on a day by day basis. And the great thing about it is when homelessng to our program, other men i women in the program are doing really well, and so they kind of get caught up in th Of achieving and doing rather than comining that it was going to be like them. There’s people be claimed nine months or 10. And so I think it really elevates peopless and they come into the program. Seeing people who once were now going somewhere Brand new so we et people’s knees. We try to, uh, raise our expectations. What become of their future’s what makes the dream centers is we just don’t people’s need we minister to the potential and u have this thing called a commun, and this is one of the features of going on there. Yeah it’s a kitchen’sn 10 hours a day, and dream has always been to where nobody the neighborhood could ever be.. And uh quite there before Cole did, but after code that took place all the flu this start com to the dream Center, to 6. Everyday can come by and get food. There’ no lunchtime of break is whenever you show up, you canls, so we think t of people every single day frhood. Anybody ever hungry they always know wh to go and be taken care now we’ve even opened up a grocery store anding store opened day for people to go shopping, so the goal is. Justthat one placehat they can always be served always be helped years. To really get to that place is stability to do that, But there’s no greater joy than to see people light up every say before you know it. You’re going to be those multi live and sounds likee building quite a complex over there. Bing that you found most surprising? As people are starting to comeemic, I think on find most years A lot of peopletheir dreams a little bit. They feel likem there more th a survival mindset that it is to really flourish and dre. So that’s one of the things trying to do. We’re trying to coach to life again, Coachple back to great expectations thought when people would come back, they’ll be ready to start do great things and achieve grea. But we we’ve had to put a l into their spirit and try to encourage them because when you’ve gone through . Everything it used to be. there’s a there’s a sense life to maybe I was just onlythis, so we’re