On St. Patrick’s Day, 64 members of the YMM community–youth, parents, sponsors, and staff–spread out across Seattle to participate in their first annual Love Your City event, an offshoot of the church-wide Love Your Neighborhood project. They weeded yards, painted walls, cleaned up a construction site, had coffee with homeless people, and made lots of new friends at these locations:
- Recovery Cafe
- Street Youth Ministries
- Pioneer Square
- Vision House
- The yards of three elderly UPC members
- UPC
- Side-by-Side
- East Cherry YWCA
Photo Gallery
Laney Meier spent the day cleaning the nooks and crannies of an apartment in East Cherry YWCA’s transitional housing to prepare for a new family to move in. “It was crazy to see the conditions people were living in.” (Photo by Jeff Blackburn)
Notice how they’re wearing coveralls? Give a middle-school boy paint and a brush, and you’d better step back. Before rolling these walls at UPC, Cole Kindall and Josh Medina tagged them with their names and smeared each other’s clothes. (Photo by Jeff Blackburn)
To give YMM sponsor Wesley Ziegler the benefit of the doubt, we’ll say his expression is one of delight instead of panic—just setting a good example of enthusiasm for the kids cleaning a unit in East Cherry YWCA’s transitional housing. (Photo by Jeff Blackburn)
A group of Rock students did yard work in an elderly woman’s garden to a Justin Bieber soundtrack. “Matthew (blue jacket) is a great lip-syncher but a slacker gardener,” says Lily Roberts, a fellow group member. “I don’t think he likes to get his hands dirty.” (Photo by Jesse Shoman)
This proud group of seniors (and parents) cleaned out a construction site for Union Gospel Mission’s Vision House, a recovery and transitional housing program for women with children. (Photo by Jeff Blackburn)
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