Courage to
Love Findings
We have spent considerable time talking to people in the community about how they experience love and social connection already present in their community. We’ve used fun activities like having people write their thoughts about where they see love in their neighborhood on “blessing hands” that symbolically surround an infant. We have also looked at data and have tried to learn as much as we can about the issues that families in the community face. Below are some of the things we have found as we have engaged in these conversations and explorations.
Where do you see love in Auburn Gresham?
- I feel Love in my school. They keep me safe.
- Love is walking down the street to people speaking changing my day
- Love thru youth programing, food pantries, day care, school
- Playground, children playing together, churches-forgiveness, hospitals-healing, ambulance
- With friends
- Unity in the community is LOVE when there isn’t any quarreling between the people!
- Love is in the Parks when we have cookouts, parents walking kids to school
- I see love in our home & community
- It takes a village to raise a child. This block is all about helping each other out.
- In church
- Holding hands with loved one
- Being took care of in the home, feeding them
- My school gives support to other schools. They cheer for them.
- I see love at the park where people spend time with each other
