Each Friday night, while most people in the city are relaxing at home, taking in a movie, or having dinner at a nice restaurant, volunteers from The Dream Center are working on Skid Row, an area of downtown Los Angeles containing one of the largest populations of homeless persons in the United States. Cardboard boxes and tents line the sidewalks and drugs are dealt and used in the open.

The “Dream Street” outreach volunteers take food and water to Skid Row where 60 percent of the population lives on the street and entire families must share one room in a vermin infested welfare hotel with filthy community bathrooms. This population is all but forgotten by the rest of the city. Dream Street volunteers share vital information about The Dream Center’s programs and services. In 2010, a total of 30 people left the hopelessness of Skid Row and entered The Dream Center’s Discipleship program.