[Update from our partner Ian Groves]

The UGM Community Revitalization Collective hit the streets to clean up garbage and connect with the people in the Whittier neighborhood. Paul Ellis sent us a vibrant youth group from his church (thank you), and YWAM missionaries from the Flathead Indian reservation in Montana joined us — Sisa Vukialau and Timothy Nanai. We prayed with transients in the park, pedestrians on the street, and residents in their homes. And we made some new friends. We even moved a chainsawed couch out of a house. Finally, the CRC just got a thumbs-up from the owner of T-Juanita’s restaurant to begin developing an external mural project on East 8th St. and N. Nesmith Ave., across from Union Gospel Mission Sioux Falls.