Tune in to this week’s transformative episode with returning guest-artist Shanel Romain and Hood Heroes’ youth partcipants Frederick Giles and Dante Coker as they reflect on the successful completion of their 6-week instructive program which took place inside Aspire Center’s media room.

Most individuals are aware that flexing our creative mind can open new perspectives in our lives- but just how much do we understand its parallels to our story we form along the way? Techniques like the “grid method” (redrawing one square at a time from a reference sheet can reliably transfer and reproduce an image onto a bigger scale with great precision. But, as Shanel points out, life is messy. We often don’t have the support or full picture to understand what vision we may want to present to the world.

Someone like Fredrick has a simple yet powerful approach with the element of values. In art, it is the scale of lightness or darkness in a color; in this young man’s life, it is the love of basketball, working out, mechanical engineering, and his paternal role model.

We are being pushed into a more and more drastically over-produced world that focuses on efficiency without authenticity, effect without effort. These skills of pushing through hard times and finding out what we’re made of, and being brave enough to reflect on how we feel about such things is why art will always imitate life, as it is the journey within that shapes us.

Congratulations to all apprentices who participated in Hood Heroes’ program, may you continue to shine bright and be seen! Please support Legacy Disciple by visiting their website to volunteer, donate, or participate in their future events.

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Hood Heroes – Legacy Disciple

Legacy Disciple exists to encourage, equip, and empower young urban leaders to bring holistic healing to themselves and their community. Within a few years of their first Urban youth conference in 2007, it grew to 2,000 annual attendees coming from cities across the country. This conference would encourage, empower and equip thousands of people to be disciples of Christ who would make disciples for Christ in their local context. Many would become pastors, church planters and leaders within their church. Others would have influence via social media and the arts. Others would be called to serve as educators, realtors, lawyers, and contractors.

The conference would continue to grow its reach until it would be necessary to create a separate 501(c)3, Legacy Disciple in August 2018. Since then, we have developed programs that can be utilized by local churches to engage their local community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ including social-emotional learning in elementary schools (Thriving Minds), mentoring programs in local churches (Brotherhood & Sisterhood Mentoring), summer employment and leadership development (Hood Heroes), and financial literacy and home ownership (J29 Homes). 

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