INDIANAPOLIS — New Direction Church is launching a second campus near 38th Street and Arlington Avenue , hoping to do more than just worship.

They're now opening their doors with new resources and space to the community. On top of that, they're providing job skills to young people.

On Monday, the church launched the new fall cohort that will be learning the construction trade over the next 16 weeks, while getting paid.

"Being a Black man...it gets to you and it makes you feel like there's people out there that actually, genuinely care," Kelyn Hill said.

Hill is in the cohort class, hoping to turn his life around.

"I went to (junior college), but like everybody, I make mistakes and I made a mistake and I'm just trying to play catch-up," Hill said.

"I graduated high school, but I've ha

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