Dinner & A Movie

03/29/2026

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02/24/2025

Another successful week comes to an end at Dinner and a Movie What did we do? We celebrated a birthday. We got hot food and warming supplies to people living in the camps. Spent some time with an old friend we met doing outreach who was 16 months sober and working a new job. Helped remove over 2 tons of garbage including 87 illegally dumped tires (a solid second place record) and cleaned up a natural area along the Columbia Slough. We're all over the place doing good stuff, but we need your help. Please consider becoming a monthly donor. Just $25 a month can help us do wonders.
To make a donation visit dinnerandamoviepdx.com and hit the donate button, Venmo , Company matches can be made through Benevity, or send a check to PO Box 28237 Portland OR 97228 all donations are tax deductible. Youth and Family Crossroads DBA Dinner and a Movie is a 501c3 Public Benefit Corp.

10/30/2024

What a Tuesday night. Our family dinner had a Halloween party last night (yes, yes... I know, fellow Christian, I know.) We had cookie decorating, treat bags, and of course Candy! It was a fun night, the kids were cute. Dinner and a Movie it's a lot of things; one of them is holiday fun.

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09/06/2024

It's been a busy summer. Dinner and a Movie has been out there in that warm beautiful sun doing what we do. Lives saved. Lives changed. Bunnies hugged. Busy. Busy. Stay tuned for some big announcements. We have a lot of fun stuff coming your way.

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06/01/2024

Happy Birthday, Kiddo! It's amazing to watch the families we serve thrive. Our Tuesday night Dinner and a Movie has been full of birthdays lately. I've known this girl since she before she was born. Her mom came to us a scared pregnant kid herself at 17. Now her baby is 17. It has been an honor and a privilege to be apart of your lives this whole time.

It's stuff like this that makes our program so hard to explain. Because it's based on genuine relationships and not prescribed goals, we do a little of everything along the way. Outreach and recovery support, yup. Birthday parties and play time for kids, we do that too. Trash clean ups, Ah-huh. Building a pop-up free toy store and holding killer Christmas parties, just another way we do things. It's not about checking off boxes. It's about being there for the long haul. Dinner and a Movie: a commitment to life.

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05/23/2024

Sunday was another full day of outreach. We did a lot of medical care with Nurse Wendy. I got stuff out of the bag, and disposed of the used stuff while she did the doctoring. Liam and Quinn managed the food and sock distribution with the Lighthouse crew. It was warmish out so everybody got iced water. We had a great day. In the end the hard work pays off. This week, we saw two more of our friends moved off the streets, detoxed, and in recovery. Answered Prayer.

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05/16/2024

The people we are seeing out on the streets these days are getting younger and younger. When we first started our outreach forward model, we saw a lot of older homeless people. But since the start of 2024, I think the average age dropped about 15 years. A lot of them are covid kids that left home during the lock downs because they were sick of day drinking parents beating them up or getting ideas (You know)... Our new Downtown route is particularly young, with many looking like high school sophomores. Its rough. Pray that we can find ways to make a difference in their lives while there's still hope for brighter futures.
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04/25/2024

How did Dinner and A Movie spend Earth Day weekend?

Being good stewards of our city of course.
Saturday we were with Solve in Delta Park. Spring sports are in session. Kids playing baseball, softball, and volley ball made the area come alive and we're proud to make it safer for such events. Special thanks to DeMarini Sports Equipment for hosting the event.
We spent Earth Day with our friends at Solve Oregon in the Omsi area providing outreach to the homeless, making sure the 100+ volunteers were safe, and removing hazardous materials to make our home livable and more secure. It was a beautiful day and an amazing turn out.

04/15/2024

It was a good day to be out in the gutter. The weather was nice and we ran into a few friendly faces. We had a great crew that consisted of volunteers from Lighthouse Church and Riverwest Church. It was hard to say how many people we served but it was a lot. We had to restock two or three times during our route.

Also please pray for Tanya who is 47 days sober and trying to get into housing. Ask God to give her wisdom and clarity concerning her life choices.

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03/27/2024

This week at Dinner and a Movie!

Day 1. We facilitated a clean up with Solve Oregon. Making the streets clean and safe is very important to us. We clean up dirty needles, smoking tins and other hazardous materials while keeping Solve workers and volunteers safe. And providing services to the homeless in the area. Always a full day's work.

Day 2. Early Saturday morning board meeting. (It isn't always fun and games).

Day 3. We were able to finally get one of our friends off the streets and in to the Helping Hands Transitional Housing at Bybee Lakes. We called every morning for days hoping space would open up. Finally it did, and we were able to get a nice old guy indoors and on his way to permanent housing. It was amazing!

Day 4. We had our Easter celebration at our family feeding on Tuesday night. It's back! Dinner and a Movie is once again serving Dinner and showing a Movie! Kids were excited. They staged their own egg hunts. The parents were able to relax. It was just cool.

Day 5: Well... the week isn't over yet. But man has it been eventful. We are off to work and we'll see what adventures come our way. I think I need some coffee.

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02/26/2024

What does a day at Dinner and a Movie look like?
1) Start the day with coffee (of course).
2) Meet up with friends from the YMCA Columbia Willamette at our storage shed.
3) Load up hundreds of nice coats for woman and children (3 full loads worth).
4) Drive them to Open House Ministries in Vancouver, a shelter where half the residents are children, and unload.
5) Next stop, the store to stock up on cup-o-noodles and healthy snacks.
6) Head out on the I205 multi-use path. Notice that everyone on the trail seems to have gotten younger (Average age dropped from mid to up 30's to mid-twenties. Some of them are maybe 16. like the girl below.)
7) Help 111 people get a hot meal and medical supplies.
8) Talk to people we know, get to know new people, and foster trust and develop positive life changing relationships.
9) Get ready for the Solve Oregon Neighborhood Clean Up in the mourning.
10) sleep.
Real Help. It's what we do.