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A Place to Hang Out...
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Miracles?...oh yeah

Build a cafe, ok but how? The space became available and we had a handful helpers. Some of our teens, who of course wanted to help with the demolition, and some volunteers who would donate their time to the rebuild. But we had no budget AT ALL for the project.
BUT GOD had a plan. Read about it and be amazed!
 
Schedule

Currently, The Door is open on Wednesdays from 3 - 8 pm. We are excited about being open more days. To do that we need more volunteers and a ministry coordinator.

For more information contact Lou Fister at 330-608-7622 or lou.fister@gmail.com
 
Food
Food, treats, and snacks are always needed for The Door. We serve the kids with whatever we have been given. Snacks and treats can be dropped off, if you would like to help prepare meals, contact Eszti Zsoldos at 330-239-0262 or esztizsoldos@yahoo.com
Why a cafe?
In 2009 a Wadsworth citizen submitted the following letter to the editor to the Wadsworth Post:

Recently, I have made several trips to the public library in Wadsworth. I've noticed many kids (teenagers) have chosen to use the gazebo, the library, the square and even noticed these kids hanging behind the downtown buildings between the alleyways. The Strand Theater had a sign posted "Think Sring, enjoy downtown Wadsworth." I thought to myself "what a joke." How can anybody enjoy the downtown area with all thes disrespecting, loud and obnoxious kids? They yell out at passin cars, skateboard, make a mockery of pedestrians and I cannot recall how many times the security guard at the library has made these kids leave and how they give hia a hard time. I grew up here. My parents always knew where I was and what I was doing and downtown was not the hang out place. I know that a lot of parents are working, but their kids are running the downtown area. Many of these teens are smoking too. Is there anything that can be done about these juveniles? (emphasis added) I dread going to the library now.

There is a lot of truth to what this concerned citizen had to say. There is also a lot of unknown pain and tragedy behind many of teens identified in this article. It is exactly those teens that the Garage chose as our target audience when this ministry began in 2005.

Those were "our" kids that article was written about. We know them by name, pray for them reguarly, and are already involved in their lives through the Garage. We replied to the letter to tell the city that The Garage had been trying to answer the question "Is there anything that can be done about these juveniles?" and would continue to do so. We told of the existing clubs four nights a week for the kids and dreamed of the time we could be open everyday after school. We dreamed of space to provide after school snacks and a computer lab with adult volunteers who would lovingly direct these teens to good life choices. This is the vision God gave us for the cafe and it is amazing to see Him working it out.