Tuesday August 24, 2010

We had the smallest volunteer turnout in a long time tonight on what might have been the night where we had the most people come through the line in a long time. Pretty sure we had right at 100 people come through the line tonight.
Public school starts back tomorrow so that probably accounts for the light turnout of youth. We had one of our women's bible study groups helping us tonight, too. They did a great job.

We have talked about doing burritos for a long time but never pulled the trigger on it. Tonight we pulled the trigger and hit the bulls-eye. They were good, we had plenty and our friends loved them.

The womens bible study helped cook and serve at the first stop, but weren't going to the 2nd stop. A couple of youth had to leave because of school the next day. When we loaded up to go serve at the second stop we only had 5 people going to serve a meal that had a lot of items on the table to be served. That could make things tough and slow it down. As we were pulling out to go, Kelsey and Alexis pulled up. They had been at a meeting and were running late.That made 7. When we got to the Mercy House, Blake Leger and his dad Steve rolled up, giving us 9.
No problem. Give me 9 and we can knock any serving job out.

It's pretty amazing to look back at the end of a night and realize you've put food in the hands of over 100 people. It's also pretty amazing the way God continually puts the means and the resources in our hands to do this every Tuesday. 

TRYING TO CATCH UP.........

(. This was written last Tuesday but went into SAVE instead of POST. My bad. Tonight was pretty amazing. Tell you about it tomorrow.  I'll put up the post for tonight tomorrow. Got all that? )


 I know I've been slack the past couple of weeks about posting.
No excuses.
No apologies, either.

Two tuesdays ago a youth group from Gastonia was in town and came down to help us. They did a good job. We had spaghetti.

This past week Kelly Leger brought her Youth Group from Wrightsville Beach Methodist to help us. Kelly and her family were members of our church befors she accepted the position at Wrightsville Beach last year. Her husband Steve and son Blake still come and help every week. They planned the menu and we had Sloppy Joes, which is always a big hit with out crowd. Johnny Liverman also brought down some baked chicken and barbecue. We took that and made sandwiches for them to take for their lunch the next day.
I like it when we have something they can put in their hands as they leave.

This was our last week before all the colleges started up and over the last couple of weeks we've had to say "adios"* to all the graduated seniors heading off to college and our college kids going back. It was kind of sad but exciting , too, because I can picture some of them taking initiative and doing something like this where they go to school. I tried to put the seed in their mind and even offered to come up and do it with them one night. Who knows?

SLOPPY JOES      POTATO CHIPS     WATERMELON     DESSERTS     SWEET TEA/WATER
and BAKED CHICKEN/BARBECUE SANDWICHES for lunch the next day.

Danielle Bongiorno has been a regular for a couple of years now, whenever basketball wasn't in season. This was her last week before she headed off to Lenoir-Rhyne to attend school and play basketball. She brought her sisters Jessica and Mac to show them where she goes and what she does on Tuesday Nights. And what she does as well as anybody is smile and interact. all of our friends like it when she sits down and spends time with them. W
We're going to miss her.

DANIELLE  /  JESSICA  /  MAC  /  HAYLEY  /  CHRIS  /  TYLER  /  MARK  /  T.J.  /  PEYSON  /  HAMPTON  /   BLAKE  /  BRYCE  /  CHAMBERLAIN  /  WAYNE  /  MITCH  /  ANNA  /  JON  /  TWIG  /  THE GROUP FROM WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH METHODIST  /

I'm in Guatemala.......

Go to fbcguatemalatrip.blogspot.com to see what's happening there.