Pastor Lane, my deceased mother started a bus stop ministry over 15 years ago on the corner of 30th Avenue and Harrison in the West 30’s. She opened her house to children whose mothers who had to go to work before the bus arrived. One even came so early that he went back to sleep. About 10 minutes before the bus arrived, the kids started congregating at her front door. Most of these kids were eligible for free breakfast so there was not need to feed them physically but what she did was feed them spiritually before they got on that bus. She gathered them together, prayed and taught them scriptures concerning who they were in Christ. They also had a theme song that they song every morning: “I am somebody, I am a prince (princess). My father is King. I can be all things, I can do all things. I know how to behave on the bus and in the classroom, I am somebody”.
My mother sometimes added different words that applied to situations that the children were encountering. The bus drivers often told her that her children were the best behaved kids on the route.
Those kids still remember their “song”.