You know the breeze that wasn't there last week.
Well , it wasn't there tonight either.
No breeze, nowhere. Warm and still.
WAYNE / STEVE / BLAKE / MICHAEL / ALYSSA / ELLEN / CECELIA / KATIE / LAURA / BRIEN / TWIG / TERESA / ANNA / SEAN / PEYSON / MERRITT / J.BOGGS / ALLISON / PRUDEN / CRAIG / and me were hard at it tonight.
Today was the first day back for NH County schools, so it didn't surprise me that there was not the same large number helping tonight that there has been for the past several weeks. It was good though, because the ones that came were kept hopping all night and that's fun.
We had such a positive response to Fried Bologna a couple of weeks ago, we did it again, along with Peanut Butter/Banana and PB&J sandwiches. It was a nice light meal on a warm night.
FRIED BOLGONA
PEANUT BUTTER/BANANA
PB&J
CHIPS
FRUIT
DESSERT
SWEET TEA/WATER
We also gave them individually wrapped Turkey Wraps and a pack of sugar free cookies to take with them for lunch tomorrow.
And last but not least, we had freeze pops for anyone who wanted one. Somebody gave them to me a long time ago and for the life of me I couldn't remember to bring them out after the meal. Finally remembered.
I don't do a good enough job letting people know who good God is to us. I don't do a good enough job here to y'all, or to the folks helping on Tuesday night. I'm going to try and do better.
I walked in the kitchen tonight and there was 2 large packs of paper plates and 2 large packs of cups on the table. I don't know who brought them but we needed them.
Somebody called me last week and said they would like to give us three Boston Butts to use for feeding. I'll go pick them up Saturday, already cooked and ready to go.
3 Boston Butts? NICE. Can you say "BBQ sandwiches." Yeah, I thought you could.
Somebody called me Sunday and told me Harris Teeter had a special that let you buy a bundle of items needed to cook hamburgers for only $6 and they had bought one for us.
God has never failed us and He never will. He has proven himself faithful in this. I never worry that we'll have something to serve each week. God provides.
Sean leaves this week to go back to school. He's a junior at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He's on the basketball team so keep an eye out for them and him on ESPN and wherever else you get your sports.
There's a raccoon that keeps showing up every week on the roof of the Mercy House while we're serving food. I'm pretty sure he's not there to see me, so I ignore him, but the others get pretty hyper about it.
Twig's son Sprig (Justin) is getting ready to enlist in the Air Force and pretty much waiting on them so he can go. Keep him and Twig in your prayers.
Check out http://eventsfrom.blogspot.com/ later this week. I'll tell you about the Atlanta Baseball trip and how I wound up with ........
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
...keep doing it.
Not a drop of breeze anywhere tonight.
Figured I'd start out complaining and get it out of the way.
KAITLYN / ELLEN / ALEXIS / KAYLA / NICKI / WAYNE / MITCH / ANNA / TERESA / BRIEN / ALEX / CECELIA / JENNY / BAILEY / LIZ / T.J. / CHRISTIAN / J.BOGGS / ELAINE / ESPO / NICK / CHRIS / MIKE / BLAKE / /STEVE / DREW / KELLY / SEAN /
Drawing a blank on the girls who made the Tea / KIT / and me
Twig was out of town and you know what that means........I didn't have to decide what to cook until the last minute.
but I went downtown to the church and laid stuff out for spaghetti anyway. I had some sauce frozen that i took out and some sausage to put in it. I also had a pan of pork chops and chicken 'n gravy to use. Then John Liverman called me around 2 and told me he had taken some ham and mashed potatoes down to the kitchen for me.
We got several heads of lettuce for salad and when all was said and done, we had a pile of food to serve tonight.
1st stop-
Pork Chops/Ckicken 'n gravy
Ham rolls
Mashed Potatoes
Salad
Apples/Cherries
Dessert
Sweet Tea/Water
2nd stop-
Spaghetti
and everything from the first stop,too!
Still seeing an increase at the first stop. Not all at the beginning but a steady stream through the hour we're there.
This is Chris Armstrong's last week before he goes to school. Can't say enough good things about him. It has been amazing to watch him grow up and mature into the guy he is today. Carolina's lucky to get him.
Gonna be short tonight. Got an all day faculty meeting tomorrow. Yay.
God is good. He continues to provide for us in big and small, but always faithful, ways. It is our privilege to be His hands and feet on Tuesday nights and want to make sure He gets any glory for what is done. Some of the people we see every week we have been seeing since the first time we showed up there. I believe that they have been shown God's kingdom because youth and adults cared enough to consistently meet their needs on Tuesday nights for the past 7 years.
I am thankful for all the people who helped and been a part of this without ever showing up on Tuesday night.
I appreciate everyone who has ever prayed for us, and if you would.......
Figured I'd start out complaining and get it out of the way.
KAITLYN / ELLEN / ALEXIS / KAYLA / NICKI / WAYNE / MITCH / ANNA / TERESA / BRIEN / ALEX / CECELIA / JENNY / BAILEY / LIZ / T.J. / CHRISTIAN / J.BOGGS / ELAINE / ESPO / NICK / CHRIS / MIKE / BLAKE / /STEVE / DREW / KELLY / SEAN /
Drawing a blank on the girls who made the Tea / KIT / and me
Twig was out of town and you know what that means........I didn't have to decide what to cook until the last minute.
but I went downtown to the church and laid stuff out for spaghetti anyway. I had some sauce frozen that i took out and some sausage to put in it. I also had a pan of pork chops and chicken 'n gravy to use. Then John Liverman called me around 2 and told me he had taken some ham and mashed potatoes down to the kitchen for me.
We got several heads of lettuce for salad and when all was said and done, we had a pile of food to serve tonight.
1st stop-
Pork Chops/Ckicken 'n gravy
Ham rolls
Mashed Potatoes
Salad
Apples/Cherries
Dessert
Sweet Tea/Water
2nd stop-
Spaghetti
and everything from the first stop,too!
Still seeing an increase at the first stop. Not all at the beginning but a steady stream through the hour we're there.
This is Chris Armstrong's last week before he goes to school. Can't say enough good things about him. It has been amazing to watch him grow up and mature into the guy he is today. Carolina's lucky to get him.
Gonna be short tonight. Got an all day faculty meeting tomorrow. Yay.
God is good. He continues to provide for us in big and small, but always faithful, ways. It is our privilege to be His hands and feet on Tuesday nights and want to make sure He gets any glory for what is done. Some of the people we see every week we have been seeing since the first time we showed up there. I believe that they have been shown God's kingdom because youth and adults cared enough to consistently meet their needs on Tuesday nights for the past 7 years.
I am thankful for all the people who helped and been a part of this without ever showing up on Tuesday night.
I appreciate everyone who has ever prayed for us, and if you would.......
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
...I wasn't sure and I was asking them if I loved them.
All right, all right, .... as far as I know I'll be here on Tuesday nights from here on. I can't believe I missed all but two weeks since school got out. As far as I'm concerned summer is over. I'm driving the bus for the ATL Baseball trip this weekend and have to be at school the next day, so.... it's gone.
I walked out of the house yesterday and about choked. It was hot. Like an oven hot. Like, I don't want to be here hot. Being gone most of the summer spoiled me.
It was warm tonight, too. Hardly any breeze at the first stop and none at the second.
I really enjoyed being back. We had a lot of help tonight. I know I will forget some girls names. Sorry.
LAURA / TAYLOR /BRIANNA /JENNY /ALEX /ALLISON / S.H.F.-C.R.* / S.H.F.-C.R.* / S.H.F-C.R.* / MADDIE/ LAUREN /LINDSEY / ANNA /PRUDEN / TERESA /BRIEN /TWIG /MIKE /CRAIG /MICHAEL /J.BOGGS /CHRISTIAN
/TYLER /CLIFF / DENNIS / CONNOR / STEVE / BLAKE / CHRIS / JOSH / OLIVIA / and me.
We went country tonight.
Tomato sandwiches
Butterbeans
Watermelon, cantaloupe, and orange slices
Dessert
Sweet Tea/ water
My dad loved a Tomato sandwich. He would slice the tomato as thick as a burger, then smear mayonnaise on it and hit it with pepper until the whole thing was black. At the time, I thought he was nuts. As I've grown older and like tomatoes more than just in spaghetti sauce and hamburgers, I've gotten to where I can eat a Tomato sandwich every once in a while.
We went through a bunch tonight. Everybody got at least 2, and some came back for more.
We seen a flip flop in the stops lately. Big #'s at the first and less #'s at the second. Have no idea why. We'll see if it continues.
We're getting ready to say goodbye to a couple of longtime regulars because of college.
Josh Armstrong leaves for State this weekend.
Chris Armstrong leaves the following week for Chapel Hill.
Ryan Carr leaves soon for App State.
This won't be easy. These are three I've come to depend on. I can tell them something and it gets done.
Ryan has been helping almost since the very beginning.
Chris did his Sr. project on Homelessness, organized a clothing drive for our guys and completely planned and implemented a meal one night.
Josh was always great for bringing 2 or 3 friends to help.
You'd have trouble finding 3 guys better than these.
But, J. Boggs and Christian Davis have really stepped up lately. I'll be counting on them pretty heavy this year and I think they'll do great. I imagine I will probably be saying nice things about them this time next year, too.
We just got back from Guatemala and one of the things we do over there each year is a food distribution. A local church goes into a village and passes out tickets to families and persons in need. They're told when we'll be there and they bring their ticket which lets them in to receive a large bag of food. The missionary says it is roughly a month's supply for the people. It's basic food staples - rice, flour, salt, noodles, soup packets, oil, etc.
It's my favorite part of the trip. It's mostly little old ladies and mothers with 4 or 5 kids. I like to work the front of the line and pass out the bags they put stuff in because I get to interact with them while they're waiting to come in. I try to say "Dios ben dega" to each of them, which is "God bless you". I'm sure I butchered it, but I hope they could tell from my tone what I meant. Lots of them said it back to me, along with other things that I couldn't translate but it always sounded grateful.
Speaking of which.....apparently the phrase for "Your name is.....?" is very similar to the phrase for "I love you" in Spanish. Or at least the way I try to say it, it is. That's why I was I was informed after going around the work site thinking I had been asking all the locals their names and not getting any answers, that I had actually told everyone there I loved them.
Repeatedly.
Which is cool, except because I was asking them to finish my statement with their name, it came out "I love you.....?" which made it sound as if.....
* See Her Face-Can't Remember
I walked out of the house yesterday and about choked. It was hot. Like an oven hot. Like, I don't want to be here hot. Being gone most of the summer spoiled me.
It was warm tonight, too. Hardly any breeze at the first stop and none at the second.
I really enjoyed being back. We had a lot of help tonight. I know I will forget some girls names. Sorry.
LAURA / TAYLOR /BRIANNA /JENNY /ALEX /ALLISON / S.H.F.-C.R.* / S.H.F.-C.R.* / S.H.F-C.R.* / MADDIE/ LAUREN /LINDSEY / ANNA /PRUDEN / TERESA /BRIEN /TWIG /MIKE /CRAIG /MICHAEL /J.BOGGS /CHRISTIAN
/TYLER /CLIFF / DENNIS / CONNOR / STEVE / BLAKE / CHRIS / JOSH / OLIVIA / and me.
We went country tonight.
Tomato sandwiches
Butterbeans
Watermelon, cantaloupe, and orange slices
Dessert
Sweet Tea/ water
My dad loved a Tomato sandwich. He would slice the tomato as thick as a burger, then smear mayonnaise on it and hit it with pepper until the whole thing was black. At the time, I thought he was nuts. As I've grown older and like tomatoes more than just in spaghetti sauce and hamburgers, I've gotten to where I can eat a Tomato sandwich every once in a while.
We went through a bunch tonight. Everybody got at least 2, and some came back for more.
We seen a flip flop in the stops lately. Big #'s at the first and less #'s at the second. Have no idea why. We'll see if it continues.
We're getting ready to say goodbye to a couple of longtime regulars because of college.
Josh Armstrong leaves for State this weekend.
Chris Armstrong leaves the following week for Chapel Hill.
Ryan Carr leaves soon for App State.
This won't be easy. These are three I've come to depend on. I can tell them something and it gets done.
Ryan has been helping almost since the very beginning.
Chris did his Sr. project on Homelessness, organized a clothing drive for our guys and completely planned and implemented a meal one night.
Josh was always great for bringing 2 or 3 friends to help.
You'd have trouble finding 3 guys better than these.
But, J. Boggs and Christian Davis have really stepped up lately. I'll be counting on them pretty heavy this year and I think they'll do great. I imagine I will probably be saying nice things about them this time next year, too.
We just got back from Guatemala and one of the things we do over there each year is a food distribution. A local church goes into a village and passes out tickets to families and persons in need. They're told when we'll be there and they bring their ticket which lets them in to receive a large bag of food. The missionary says it is roughly a month's supply for the people. It's basic food staples - rice, flour, salt, noodles, soup packets, oil, etc.
It's my favorite part of the trip. It's mostly little old ladies and mothers with 4 or 5 kids. I like to work the front of the line and pass out the bags they put stuff in because I get to interact with them while they're waiting to come in. I try to say "Dios ben dega" to each of them, which is "God bless you". I'm sure I butchered it, but I hope they could tell from my tone what I meant. Lots of them said it back to me, along with other things that I couldn't translate but it always sounded grateful.
Speaking of which.....apparently the phrase for "Your name is.....?" is very similar to the phrase for "I love you" in Spanish. Or at least the way I try to say it, it is. That's why I was I was informed after going around the work site thinking I had been asking all the locals their names and not getting any answers, that I had actually told everyone there I loved them.
Repeatedly.
Which is cool, except because I was asking them to finish my statement with their name, it came out "I love you.....?" which made it sound as if.....
* See Her Face-Can't Remember
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Thanks for looking, but....
I won't be there this week. Anna, Pruden, Teresa and Steve are going to run it and knock it out of the park. If you want to see what's happening in Guatemala, check out, http://fbcguatemalatrip.blogspot.com.
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