Watch Out Chipotle

Watch out Chipotle. UrbanLife just got into the burrito making business.   We are not actually selling burritos.  Nor are we in any place to compete with a corporate burrito dealer.   We are in position to imitate their ingenious burrito assembly line though.   In fact, it seems to benefit us in at least a few ways:

Burritos are hand-held.

On Bible study nights, we are able to hand both Bibles and burritos to students as they walk through the door.   Right away, we are interacting with youth and getting into the scriptures.

Burritos are versatile.

Provided we keep mixing up the ingredients, we may be able to serve burritos every single Bible study night.   On the proposed menu, we’ve got egg and potato, rice, bean and summer squash, pollo asado and corn.  And we are just getting started.   Predictability meets variety.

Burritos empower youth.

Five student leader-interns are earning a stipend each month as they learn and engage in servant leadership.  Serving food that they prepare to their peers creates a sense of ownership that we give up when we order pizza from the local storefront cardboard-tasting pizza shop.

Burritos improve health.

Parents with toddlers know that the most efficient means of getting vegetables into their children’s stomachs is to hide the vegetables.   Tortillas are ‘best in show’ for that purpose.  Because our community is over-represented among those who are obese and overweight, UrbanLife needs to be part of the solution.  

Be on the lookout for salsa recipes, shared by UrbanLife students.   Burritos may just crack your Top-10 routine meals at the house.