With a passion for reaching out to youth, even Jim was
been amazed at "The Attic's" immediate popularity with young people.
Although "The Attic" is still relatively new, they already draw
in excess of 700 youth during weekend evenings. Their initial funding was
used mostly to get the large warehouse ready for operation. "The Attic"
is now operating on additional funding from individuals, grants, businesses
and churches in the community and from a cover charge on weekends.
"The Attic" is more a concept than it is a building
or a place. In the founders' studies of youth ministry, they've
discovered one simple truth over and over again. "If you
give young people some place to go, you'll go a long way toward
keeping them out of trouble." Of course, keeping them out
of trouble will aid them immeasurably in staying on the "right
track" both at school and in life overall. The purpose of
"The Attic" encompasses all these things, but with a
larger truth included. Many young people in our nation today have
never found unconditional love and acceptance of any kind, much
less the kind found in a personal relationship with their Creator.
The mission at "The Attic" involves each of these truths.
They provide youth a place to go where they'll find unconditional
love and acceptance. If they seek to find the source of that love,
the gospel of Jesus Christ will be shared with them.