My Life 2012

MY LIFE (Magellan Youth Leaders Inspiring Future Empowerment) held its yearly event featuring live music, performances, art, games and a variety of organizations offering inspiration, resources and services. TFC, who is a partner with My Life, was part of this event and performed a flah mob. MY LIFE is aimed at raising awareness about issues related mental health, substance abuse and foster care that youth and young adults face. Watch the flash mob performed by TFC here.

CRUSH Servant Leadership Retreat

TFC holds its annual leadership retreat during Spring every year. This year the retreat was held in Tempe at City in the Desert - Metro Church from 6:00 PM, March 16th to March 17th. This year the topic was on "Who I am" with a focus on self discovery. Several people from many backgrounds attended sharing their stories.

Community Preparedness Exercise and Fair(COMPEF) Meeting

Planning meeting for Spring 2012 COMPEF event was held on March 8th. The COMPEF date was set for April 28th, 2012. A software for community emergency response developed by a team of graduate students at ASU was presented. The software, ASU Crowd-sourcing Tool (ACT), can take inputs from the community during emergency situations and help in allocation of people and resources.

Arizona Collegiate High School Block Party on April 13th

CRUSH movement is now expanded to Arizona Collegiate High School (ACHS). TFC vists ACHS once every two weeks to mobilize the student community there with servant leadership. ACHS is organizing a Block Party in partnership with TFC in order to introduce the community to the programs at ACHS and raise funds for various community service activities performed by the students.

Tempe Cares Project and Hudson Park Beautification on March 3rd, 2012

On March 3rd, TFC participated in the Tempe Cares project to paint and beautify Wood Elementary School. TFC has been a regular participant in all Tempe Cares projects. On the same day, TFC also performed its monthly Hudson Park beautification. After clean-up, there was BBQ folowed by sports.

TFC makes it to The State Press

ASU newspaper The State Press took notice of TFC's regular park clean up and covered our activities in their newspaper. This month, TFC went about its regular schedule to clean the Hudson Park. TFC was joined by Tempe Metropolitan Church (TMC) who have been helping TFC clean Hudson Park since October 2011. After cleaning, there was BBQ and sports where people from the neighborhood joined in.

Pastor Yoo talks about "Relational Inspiration for Lifestyle Servant Leadership" .

The Fall Forward Leadership Conference was held at ASU on Oct 15th, 2011. Pastor Sanghoon Yoo talked about how relationship building is a key part of servant leadership. He presented the servant leadership lifestyle followed at TFC which is based on building sincere relationships, mentoring and multi-cultural sensitivity.

COMPEF Network was activated to help out at a Mobile Home Park.

On Saturday, July 2, 2011 a fire broke out at a Mobile Home Park in Tempe. Fire and Police departments rushed to put out the fire and salvage the property. The fire broke out in the Manager's Mobile Home, which also housed the electricity grid for the entire Mobile Park. Due to the fire, the entire community was left without electricity on the hottest day of the year. COMPEF network was set in motion by the Mike Reichling from the Fire department...