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WELCOME TO THE
A NIGHT OF HOPE AND RESTORATION
O C T O B E R 7, 2 0 1 5
2301 BELLEVUE AVE., LOS ANGELES, CA 90026
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PASTORS
TOM MY
&
M AT T H E W B A R N E T T
Thank you for joining us this evening to celebrate The Dream Center’s 21st
Anniversary! Tonight, we express gratitude to God for the thousands of
lives that have been rescued, rebuilt, and restored. As we move into the
third decade of our journey, it is also a time to cast an ever-wider vision
to help even more people. It is our hope that you will be inspired by the
perseverence, courage, and determination of some very extraordinary
youth, men, and women.
For over 20 years, The Dream Center has been transforming the lives of
men, women, and children that the world has given up on. The Dream
Center’s mission is to reconnect isolated people to God and a community
of support by providing free human services that address immediate and
long-term needs. As we extend the love of God through practical services,
biblical instruction and personal encouragement, we are building up those
who have been beaten down by life.
Our annual gala plays an essential role in the financial support of these
impactful programs and services, and this tremendous evening would not
be possible without the generous support of individuals and companies
like yours. We are extremely grateful and honored by the generosity of
our supporters, volunteers, and guests each year who help to make this
evening a great success!
With your support, we can continue to make a real difference in the lives of
hurting people—burdened or broken by the circumstances of life—
at a time when no one else is willing to give them a second chance.
Our hope is that you would join with us now to help rescue, rebuild, and
restore more people like the ones you will meet tonight.
With thanks,
Pastor Tommy Barnett
Chairman & Co-founder
Pastor Matthew Barnett
President & Co-founder
EVENT SPONSORS
Jack & Sandra
Carey
Touré Roberts
and Sarah Jakes-Roberts
on behalf of
Brett and Marisa Grimes
ABOUT US
Since our founding in 1994, The Dream
Center has become a national and
international model of community
transformation by creating programs
and services that meet the immediate
and basic emergency needs of the less
fortunate. As a rescue center focused
on finding solutions to homelessness,
hunger, and education through
community outreach programs, The
Dream Center serves nearly 85,000
people a month through our 29
programs and services.
Programs and services currently
offered include: residential recovery
programs for adults, transitional housing
for homeless families, foster care
intervention outreach, mobile hunger
relief, medical programs and a shelter
for victims of human trafficking.
OUR PROGRAMS
HOMELESS FAMILIES
Imagine losing your home because
you can no longer afford it.
The Dream Center Transitional
Family Housing Program rescues
homeless families and provides
support, services and personal
care to create a path for selfsufficiency and re-entry.
YOUTH
COMMUNITY CENTER
The Youth Community Center is
a sports outreach center with a
vision to provide a place for the
youth, young adults and families
of the community to gather in a
positive environment. Committed
and caring staff lead programs to
meet each youth’s health,
educational and social needs.
FOOD DISTRIBUTION
The Food Truck outreach feeds
over 40,000 people each month,
serving at 32 different sites in
some of the poorest areas in
Los Angeles.
The Hot Dog Cart Ministry serves
2,000 hot meals every week to the
homeless population of Skid Row
and surrounding areas.
The Dream Center hosts one
of the largest nonprofit food
banks in Los Angeles. Our team
processes over one million pounds
of donated food per month,
which is then distributed through
our feeding ministries and food
services at The Dream Center, in
addition to weekly food giveaways.
We also help 55 other agencies
and churches by providing food to
their hunger outreaches.
FOSTER CARE
INTERVENTION
In America, there are currently
500,000 children in foster care.
Some people assume every child
is taken away because of abuse
or addiction, but that is simply not
the case. Many of those children
were removed from their homes
because their parents could not
afford to properly care for them.
Our Foster Care Intervention
program provides furnishings,
diapers, food and other basic
necessities.
OUR PROGRAMS
RESIDENTIAL
REHABILITATION
AND RECOVERY
DC Discipleship is an intensive
one-year residential program
designed to help individuals
overcome life-controlling
problems including addictions,
abuse and anger.
MOBILE MEDICAL CLINIC
Making healthcare affordable
and accessible, City Help Mobile
Medical Clinic provides access to
free comprehensive medical care
and prescriptions to the uninsured.
EMANCIPATING
YOUTH HOME
Did you know that each year,
more than 4,000 young people
emancipate from foster care in
California? Additionally, more than
30% of California’s foster youth live
in Los Angeles County.
The Emancipating Youth Home
at The Dream Center is for youth
ages 18-24 who aged-out of the
foster care system and have
nowhere else to turn. This program
meets physical, educational and
spiritual needs of young adults in
danger of becoming homeless.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
The program was established to
address the specific needs faced
by victims of the growing human
trafficking industry, which includes
forced labor, involuntary domestic
servitude and forced prostitution.
This program offers safe refuge,
legal services, medical services
and specialized counseling so that
survivors of human trafficking—in
all its forms—can overcome and
be restored from their individual
trauma and challenges.
EDUCATION
The Dream Center is working to
reduce poverty through education.
In The Dream Center’s Adult
Education Program, participants
are able to earn their GED and
increase their job and educational
opportunities. These classes are
provided to every one of our
program participants, plus those in
the community who want to earn
their GED.
The DC Academy is a private,
Christian school for at-risk teens
in grades 9-12. We provide a
quality, mastery-based education
that combines high academic and
moral standards, individualized
instruction and a biblical
worldview.
AUCTION ITEMS
TOGETHER, WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Over the past 21 years, The Dream Center has made its mission to
find and fill the needs of those in the Los Angeles community. What
began as a food and clothing outreach has now expanded into an
internationally known resource center that serves nearly 85,000
individuals and families each month. We do this by addressing the
needs of our three core pillars: poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
By threading together our core pillars, we instill hope, inspire
transformation, and impact generations in the communities and
individuals we serve.
By giving access to medical care, food, clothing, financial counseling,
job readiness training, and skills to keep families off the streets, we
reconnect isolated people to a community of support and to God.
Tonight, with your support, we can rescue more families from poverty
and separation, help more men and women overcome life-controlling
issues and restore more victims of human trafficking.
POVERTY
F O S TE R C A R E I NTE RV E NTI O N
PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEALS FOR CHILDREN
$600
When children are removed from their homes, the kids may
not have eaten. We provide gift cards to social workers so that
they can feed the children in their care.
BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR KIDS IN FOSTER CARE
$2,000
You can help provide gifts and a party for children who would
normally go without on their special day.
FOSTER CARE INTERVENTION BEDS
$25,000
Help provide beds to families who are working to keep their
kids out of foster care or those bringing their kids home from
foster care.
H O M E LE S S N E S S
HOUSING HOMELESS FAMILIES
$50,000
Help provide housing, education, employment, and stability
as we help families to transition into permanent housing.
SPONSOR QUARTERLY FAMILY OUTINGS
$5,000
Provide homeless families with a special day out, quarterly
(museum, zoo, beach).
DENTAL SUPPLIES
$2,000
Help provide dental care to those in our programs re-entering
the workforce after years of neglect.
A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
$48,000
It has been five years since our floor for homeless families first
opened. Hundreds of families have transitioned through the
program and we still have the original furnishings. Help us to
refurnish these “homes” in time for the holidays.
SPONSOR AN EMANCIPATING FOSTER YOUTH
$2,000
Youth making the transition from foster care often find
themselves on their own at age 18, without the necessary life
skills and support to succeed. Your monthly partnership will
help provide the essentials to keep them off the streets and
prepare them to transition into the community.
Help provide room/board, education, counseling, life skills and
job training:
$500/mo
$250/mo
$100/mo
$50/mo
HOT DOG CART
$36,000
Help feed the homeless a hot meal in a unique way. Our new
veteran’s program will use this ministry as they seek out the
veterans who are homeless and living on the streets of Skid
Row, Hollywood and Venice Beach.
DAILY MEALS $3,400
Each meal served at The Dream Center costs $2.45.
Help us provide a day of meals to all the residents in our
various programs.
(6) MINISTRY VEHICLES
$13 ,000 EACH
Help feed over 40,000 people each month through our Food
Trucks. Help us to deliver food and furnishings to families at
risk of losing their children into the foster care system. We
need these vehicles to transport volunteers and resources.
E D U C ATI O N
GED BOOKS $1,500
Help prepare students to take their GED test this year.
GED TEST FEES $7,200
They’ve done the hard part, now let’s help pay for them to take
their test.
D C AC A D E M Y
DC ACADEMY P.E. EQUIPMENT $2,000
Help provide sports equipment for our PE program.
FIELD TRIPS $3,000
Provide DC Academy students with a chance to learn in
a unique way.
SPONSOR A STUDENT $1,500 PER STUDENT
Help provide one student with the gift of education for
one year.
ADDICTION
EMERGENCY RESOURCE CENTER
$5,000
The Emergency Resource Center is the first stop for people
coming in off the streets. Residents receive basic necessities
and start their journey towards healing.
CURRICULUM
$3,500
Our curriculum works to build positive character traits and
reverse destructive behaviors.
RECREATIONAL OUTINGS
$5,000
Help us provide positive life experiences and recreational
activities for those in the Discipleship Program, including trips
to the beach for water baptisms.
DISCIPLESHIP GRADUATION
$5,000
Help sponsor the graduation of our disciples by supplying
them with Bibles, a luncheon and a graduation outing.
CHRISTMAS PARTY
$2,500
Help us provide a Christmas party for those in the program as
they are away from family and friends during this season.
HOUSING, EDUCATION, AND DISCIPLESHIP
$75,000
The program is free to all participants, but it costs over $3,000
annually to house and rehabilitate a resident. Comparatively, it
costs $47,063 annually to incarcerate one inmate.
DC VETERANS
$60,000
Opening next month, the program will work with discharged
vets who are living on the streets and have no place to go.
Help us provide safety, basic necessities, support, resources
and counseling to those who have protected our freedom.
“TRANSITIONS” CAREER PREP
$15,000
Help provide room and board, budgeting and resume classes,
interview training, life coaching and academic support for
Discipleship and DC Veterans graduates who are saving for
permanent housing after completing their program.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
LONG-TERM SHELTER
$80,000
Help to provide safe shelter and care for survivors of human
trafficking.
SUPER BOWL OUTREACH/RESCUE
$3,000
Super Bowl is the number one trafficking event in this country!
Send our rescue team to San Francisco for outreach during
Super Bowl 2016.
OUTREACH KITS
$4,800
Every night, our staff is on the streets building relationships
with these victims of human trafficking. Help provide kits that
include small toiletry items and a lip gloss with our 24/7 hotline
number for young women to reach our rescue staff any time of
the day or night.
RESCUE BACKPACKS
$10,000
Last year we rescued over 100 women. Help provide
backpacks filled with basic necessities as they come into our
Emergency Rescue Shelter.
EMERGENCY MEALS
$2,000
Help to feed victims who are rescued off the streets or
released into our care.
WELCOME BASKETS
$2,000
Help provide a welcome basket to every woman who enters
our long-term sex trafficking shelter. They are filled with daily
essentials.
LEGAL NEEDS
$5,000
Help provide legal counsel to survivors as they work to rebuild
their lives.
THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES
$20,000
Help provide therapeutic and recreational activities including
the zoo, horseback riding, theater and Disneyland to women
who have been held in captivity and have had their childhood
stolen.
CHRIST-CENTERED COUNSELING
$75,000
Help provide counseling to survivors of human trafficking.
These women have been through intense physical and
emotional trauma and this is the most critical step in their
recovery.
COMMUNITY / EVENTS
AFTER-SCHOOL MUSIC PROGRAM
$7,000
Music programs are lacking in most schools today. Help us
provide instruments and equipment needed to introduce 20
inner-city youth to the field of music.
BACK-TO-SCHOOL EVENT
$15,000
Help provide a block party, resource fair and backpacks filled
with school supplies for less fortunate children to begin the
school year ready to learn.
TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING GIVEAWAY
$13,000
Help provide families with a Thanksgiving dinner with all the
trimmings.
TOYS
$20,000
Help provide presents to children that would otherwise go
without on Christmas Day.
GOING “GREEN”
$20,000
Help us kick start our efforts to reduce trash and begin a more
efficient recycling and composting program.
FOUNDER’S FUND
This is our “Legacy” category. We want to honor Pastor Tommy
Barnett for his commitment to the hopeless, hurting and lost.
He has spent the last 62 years of his life reaching out to the
marginalized.
A percentage of tonight’s proceeds will be invested in our
endowment.
Funding will allow current programs to grow and new needs to
be met through increased services throughout the year.
$50,000
$10,000
$1,000
$2,500
$250
TH A N K YO U FO R M A K I N G A D I F F E R E N C E
For more information about the programs
and services featured in our auction,
please visit us online at dreamcenter.org
AUCTION PRIZE LIST
“DEVELOPED” PAINTING BY TOMMY HOLLENSTEIN
Tommy Hollenstein is a local paraplegic artist native to Los
Angeles. He has developed his own unique style of painting using
the wheels of his wheelchair as his paintbrush.
BLAKE GRIFFIN AUTOGRAPHED JERSEY
BLAKE GRIFFIN AUTOGRAPHED BASKETBALL, (2) TICKETS
TO A LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS GAME WITH PARKING AND
DINNER AT ROCK’N FISH
CLAYTON KERSHAW SIGNED JERSEY
ADRIAN GONZALEZ SIGNED JERSEY
JUSTIN TURNER SIGNED JERSEY
ZACK GREINKE SIGNED JERSEY
COREY SEAGER SIGNED JERSEY
SEASONS 52 PRIVATE CHEF’S TABLE EXPERIENCE
(10 GUESTS)
This exclusive tasting is provided twice a year and takes place in a
private casually sophisticated setting.
SIERRA NEVADA RESORT & SPA THREE-NIGHT STAY IN A
FIREPLACE SUITE
Enjoy a three-night stay with breathtaking views of natural beauty.
Located in the heart of Mammoth Lakes, the Sierra Nevada Resort
is only minutes away from Mono Lake and Yosemite National Park.
This resort features a day spa, complimentary WiFi, seasonal
indoor and outdoor pools, jacuzzi and much more!
THE LANDING LAKE TAHOE RESORT & SPA THREE-NIGHT
STAY IN A PREMIUM ROOM
Enjoy a three-night stay at The Landing Resort and Spa located
on the shore of Lake Tahoe. All guest rooms feature stone
fireplaces and marble bathrooms with heated floors; many
affording spectacular lake views. Whether its winter, summer,
spring or fall, you’ll have access to numerous outdoor activities
including golf at Edgewood Golf Course, horseback riding, hiking,
skiing, snowmobiling and more!
ALICE COOPER SIGNED ELECTRIC FENDER GUITAR
LA KINGS MEMORABILIA AND (2) TICKETS TO A LA KINGS
GAME WITH PARKING INCLUDED
(4) DISNEYLAND RESORT PARK HOPPER PASSES
I am so honored
and privileged to partner with
The Dream Center on its
21st anniversary.
Congratulations to
The Dream Center on its
21st Anniversary!
Jack & Sandra
Carey
LIGHT SHINE BEFORE MEN,
“ LET YOURTHAT
THEY MAY SEE
YOUR GOOD DEEDS AND
PRAISE YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.
Matthew 5:16
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Congratulations to all the fantastic men and women
who work hard each day and make The Dream Center
such a special, incredible place.
Brett and Marisa Grimes
“all that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing.”
For while we may not be able to make the difference for all,
we can make all the difference for one.
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