Poster for 城市暴跌 with details
城市暴跌 is an immersive experience designed to help students encounter people’s stories and learn what resources are available to 西雅图’s homeless population. Students are invited to experience some of the challenges the homeless population of 西雅图 faces on a daily basis, while learning how service agencies and others engage in supporting the people who face those challenges. Partner sites are given honorariums for allowing us to learn from them, and food sites are reimbursed for meals consumed by participants.
For more information about 城市暴跌, contact MChew@bodegapuenteajuda.com
现在申请城市跳水!
应用 to participate in 城市暴跌, SPU’s immersive local engagement experience on homelessness in 西雅图, from November 9th-12th. As part of 城市暴跌, students will:
- 通过学习来准备 how to enter in to communities, and about the complexities of homelessness. (October 19, 26, and November 2)
- 探索西雅图 as they walk the streets throughout the day.
- Stay at a local Church downtown.
- 向代表学习 本地服务机构.
- 听 to the stories of unhoused neighbors
- 讨论 views of homelessness and how your ideas are formed with proximity.
Applications are due Ocober 6th. Cost is $25 with scholarships available based on need
For more information about 城市暴跌, contact MChew@bodegapuenteajuda.com
*You must commit to all three trainings, or make arrangements to go over the material*
*The number of participants is capped at 15*
New Horizons Check-In from Fall 2020
NH剪辑1
学生评论
“I went in thinking that this was an opportunity for me to be Christ to these people. What I discovered was that they had become Christ to me.” — 迈克
“我昨晚又见到你了. Your head was turned and your shoulders were hunched. I walked by in all the privilege of my young strength and health and wealth, complaining of the cold … And you are still there. What has happened to you in the last month? Why in my self-centeredness do I think because you look the same that you are the same? What has happened and not happened in the last month that keeps you pacing cold streets at night and me critiquing the quality of my mattress? 耶稣对你来说是谁?” ——Bethanie
“If you are an SPU student, I would highly encourage you to do 城市暴跌. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that 城市暴跌 is the only way to attain empathy. Empathy is a key component to any surface-penetrating relationship. 但往往, 就像我这样, these relationships with people outside of my socioeconomic class were difficult to form on my own volition; 城市暴跌 threw me right into the middle of it.” ——Zeek
“I don’t know about you, but at 6:30 in the morning, I’m kind of a zombie. 我不太明白, and so my whole group kind of wandered around for a half hour, stopping every once in a while to ask ‘Why are we here?’ That was a key question throughout our Plunge experience, because this probably happened about three times a day, where we wound up in a sk等hy neighborhood (thanks, Katie) and had to ask ourselves how we’d gotten there.” ——迈克
“It wasn’t just a sandwich to us. It was an acknowledgement of our existence and our importance and dignity as human beings. It was a statement that we, as human beings, deserved to eat. It was a statement that we mattered. 我想这就是莉兹哭的原因. A free tuna sandwich doesn’t mean much, really. But an act of love, an acknowledgement of our humanity, meant everything to us.” — 匿名
“Once you understand just a piece of someone’s perspective, showing mercy and loving them comes naturally. Before Plunge, this was something I knew analytically, but now I know physically.” — 匿名
Spring 2011 城市暴跌 photos
来自媒体
Over the years, 西雅图 media outlets have taken notice of 城市暴跌.