Skid Row Celebration

Fired-Up! excitedly accepted an invitation from a long-time friend to join Granite Creek, New Salvation Ministries, and other partners for a powerful outreach event in the Skid Row community. This epic outreach provided essential personal needs, food, and entertainment, going far beyond just meeting material needs—it was a celebration of life itself.

The event also brought full circle a meaningful connection made 17 years earlier. The teens featured in the video from this outreach were once students of Corporate Kids/CyberKlub (CK2), an organization founded by Marvin and Karla Smith. CK2’s mission was to bridge the digital divide through brain-based and entrepreneurial learning, equipping underserved teens with valuable life skills.

In 2004, CK2 students visited Skid Row, where they encountered a man who shared five powerful and life-changing questions. One of the videographers was so moved by this moment that he and two friends spent the next 17 years traveling the world, asking those same five questions to young people across the globe. The video titled, “Beneath the Surface: Life Advice From the Homeless,” captures this journey and concludes right where it began—in the Skid Row community of Los Angeles.