A community center for the youth re-opened its doors in East Lubbock on Sunday.
For Daniel Kinsey, CEO of Come By Faith Youth Sports Complex said growing up without mentors was a challenge.
“I know that people will go into the same thing I went into, kids will if they don’t have some support behind them right now,” Kinsey said. “That’s why I want to be there for them, I don’t want to see our kids locked up, I don’t want to see them on drugs and I don’t want to see them selling drugs.”
He said that’s why he decided to work on a project, the Come By Faith Youth Sports Complex.
“If we want them to be better, we gotta start somewhere and make them better,” Kinsey said. “Can’t just be wishing or thinking that we wish someone would do this, we wish someone would be that.”
He said having a place like this in East Lubbock is a necessity.
“[this complex] is about as important as eating,” Kinsey said. “We eat a lot of physical food, we need spiritual food as well, and we also need some good counseling and input in our young peoples lives. If we want them to be better we gotta start somewhere and make them better.”
The kids are already playing basketball in the new gym, and said they’ll be coming back every day.
“It’s very exciting, I haven’t been in my old gym for a long time, I mean I can dunk but now I’m getting over the rim a little bit,” said Quan Rosemond, a youth at the complex.
For Kinsey, he said spending hours out there working makes all the difference to see these kids excel.
“I’ve been cutting grass out here since 8:45 a.m., cleaning up and getting this prepared for this moment here, I’m very excited not for myself but for what can happen with the kids that come here,” Kinsey said.
