A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoods of North St. Louis

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July 13, 2007

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoods of North St. Louis

This past wednesday, I took the day off of work to take some pictures for Harambee, a youth training program affiliated with my church. Youth are given training, and work either mowing lawns (for the younger children) or doing tuckpointing (for the older children). The children are given a decent wage, get to interact with mentor/supervisors, receive Biblical wisdom for life and work and salvation, and get to be a part of an effort to provide widows and the poor with important services to demonstrate the love of Christ through the church.

Here are some pictures from journeys through various neighborhoods. These neighborhoods are full of photographic possibilities, from architectural details to lovely urban gardens to human interest shots. I want to resist the impulse, which is definitely there, to simply get some artsy shots and to take from the neighborhood. Not that such picture taking is necessary wrong, but it would be better to have a care for and connection with the people who live there. Here are just a few shots that I managed to get that were not part of my main mission, along with several of the children's handiwork.