He is able to pass on what he has learned...
Almost ten years ago Edward started attending the S.A.Y. Yes! Center at Calvary Baptist Church in Compton. Edward came with a lot of pain. Just a few months prior, he was sleeping next to his grandmother as she passed away. His mother had been in and out of prison and he never had any true stability in his life. It was during a summer camping trip with the S.A.Y. Yes! Center that Edward really understood who Jesus was and how much He loved him. On that same trip Edward discovered how to search and use the scriptures for himself. A new world had been opened up for him! He absorbed all that he read and learned about his relationship with God.

Over the next few years, Edward then bounced from foster home to foster home and the Center would lose contact with him. However, he still held on to the truths that he had learned during those years in S.A.Y. Yes!

Edward just finished his junior year in high school and is already taking college summer courses at LA Harbor College. Today Edward left with the Calvary S.A.Y. Yes! Center and one team of the Here’s Life Inner City summer project for this summer’s camping trip. Now not only is he growing and experiencing more with God, he is able to pass on what he’s learned to the younger “Edwards” on the trip.

This year’s ‘Summer in the City’ project has 35 students from all around the country coming together to minister in inner city Los Angeles. Pray for them as they minister and pray for Edward and the rest of the inner city children they will be serving here in the next 7 weeks.