Another cold wet night. We're in a pattern and we keep hitting it just right. Tonight it started raining at the first stop and I sent everybody and everything inside and just had plates already fixed, ready to go if anyone came up. We made to go plates for the second stop while we were at it. Good thing because we saw a little rain over there, too.

Making to-go plates is more work, but.....it's a lot of fun. You try to work fast, you yell, scream(Don't be my speed bump, Crump. DON'T BE MY SPEED BUMP!), and give each other a hard time, you adjust on the fly when something runs out or isn't working,.....it's semi-organized chaos because we've got to get to the 2nd stop by 9:00.

HOT DOGS

EVERY TOPPING IN THE WORLD

BEANS

CHIPS

COLE SLAW

DESSERT

SWEET TEA/WATER



Our 1-6 graders have a program on Wednesday night called CrossTraining. In the past they have collected toiletry items for us to pass out on Tuesday nights and I have been to speak with them several times about Misssions. The past 3 weeks they have collected specific food items for us. The 1-3 graders collected things for chili and the 4-6 graders collected for spaghetti. They have brought in a huge amount, for which we are very grateful. We're going to have spaghetti next week.

The leaders for CrossTraining do an outstanding job. Their commitment and preparation is amazing. If you know them and see them, tell them I said so.



BAILEY / MO-GAN / ALEXIS / CREEEECH! / ALEXANDRA / KILLER / JOHANNA / T.J. / JASON / JENNIFER / JADE / TWIG / TERESA ANNA / CHAMBERLAIN / SHELBY / DARBY / LAUREN / ????????? / TYLER / CHRISTIAN / J.BOGGS / CECELIA / PEYSON / ELAINE / MERRITT / STEVE / WADE / BLAKE / WAYNE / ELLYN / TREY / JAMIE
put effort and love into making a meal for our friends on the street.

And by doing so, they didn't get closer to Heaven. Instead, they created the Kingdom of God right where we were. Jesus used banquet, feast and celebraton imagery in his parables about the Kingdom of God.

That's what we have happening on Tuesdays;a banquet/feast/celebration.

And find ourselves squarely in the Kingdom of God, right there on the corner of Fifth and Market.