Atlanta Dream Center will give out free bicycles and hoverboards to children on Sunday, Dec. 18, after its Sunday worship service.
According to Atlanta Dream Center's events page, only kids below 12 registered by their parents will get a bicycle or hoverboard. The church encourages the public to visit its page at https://atlantadreamcenter.com/bicycles-2022/ and register before its countdown ends.
For more information, locals are urged to attend the Sunday service before the Bicycle 2022 event and visit its social media pages. Every confirmed registered child will receive a bicycle or hoverboard immediately after service.
Atlanta Dream Center
Atlanta Dream Center wants to be where people can encounter Christ, develop their faith, and live closely with the Lord, according to its about page.
The website further reads it aims to realize its mission through worship, discipleship, fellowship, outreach, and prayer.
History of Atlanta Dream Center
When Pastor Tommy was only 15 years old, the history of the Atlanta Dream Center began. Pastor Paul and Patty Palmer, Tommy's parents, traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, in 2002. During their tour, the history page said they came upon a homeless man resting on the steps of a closed church.
As they knocked on the building's door, they found that the staff was inside taking care of church business and had little interest in the man who was dozing on their steps. The website revealed that the Atlanta Dream Center Church was established at that moment.
Nine of the Palmers' eleven children and the couple left their home in California and traveled across the nation to start the church in one of Atlanta's most violent neighborhoods at the time, the page bared.
Before Sunday services were instituted, the site said the church visited the poorest parts of the city by knocking on people's doors and performing small acts of kindness, like cutting lawns.
Adopt-a-Block, the church's first outreach program, was born out of this. The basic idea was to serve others well to demonstrate Jesus' love for them. Within a few years, the outreach had transformed the neighborhood the history page bared.
The church immediately gained a reputation for welcoming socially marginalized people with open arms (and doors). The site said that the poor and abandoned were accepted and cherished, and the outcast found a place to call home.
However, the church's influence grew over time. In addition to men and women who came in off the street, doctors, lawyers, and well-known businesspeople participated in worship, fellowship, and service, the page said.
Atlanta Dream Center Church became a church for everyone and is still today. It is a place where everyone is genuinely accepted and loved, regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, or age, as per the website.
The church said it continues to be devoted to keeping our hearts and doors open and doing everything we can to witness the repair of shattered lives and entire communities as we focus on worship, fellowship, discipleship, and outreach to satisfy the spiritual needs of our varied communities, it added.
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