...but no sense taking any chances!

Cold.
Real cold. Windy, too.
On nights like that, we try to come inside at the first stop to serve and eat. Fireside Hall is big enough to meet our needs and the tables are always set up. This week, however, there was another group scheduled to use it for a dinner so there went the option of being indoors.
We took the "breakfast for dinner" route this week and had pancakes and cheese grits. It was a good call for a cold night.

PANCAKES AND SAUSAGE
JACKED-UP CHEESE GRITS w/ EGGS and SAUSAGE
HOT CHOCOLATE

ELAINE  / CECELIA / JORDAN / MORGAN / ALEXANDRA / ANDREW / FLETCH /  MARK / T.J. / TYLER / BRIEN / WAYNE / ELLYN / BLAKE / CHARLES / STEVE / TWIG / DON / SHANNON / CJ / SHARON / MAX / KYLE / AMY / and about 20 other kids and adults with the WILMINGTON FEAR little league baseball team

ANDREW Croom moved up to Youth Group this year and came to Beach Camp. That's when I met his mom Amy. He has come to help on Tuesday nights several time s since and Amy has been very good about asking what we needed and bringing stuff. We planned awhile back for the FEAR team her younger son plays on to come this week and pass out to-go bags they had made. They did an awesome job with the to-go bags! When we do it, we use the ordinary brown lunch bag, but they took big brown paper grocery bags and had a carry out tray in it, a bottle of water, fruit, cards they'd made.....really nice. There at least 10 kids and 5 sets of parents that came to do that. 
We got double duty out of them because they also set up the youth room and helped us pass out hoodies, blankets, gloves, and socks.  

One of the reasons we had things like blankets and socks to pass out is because of the generous way the congregation at First Baptist gives to help meet needs. The Children's Ministry had their Celebrate Christmas program this past Saturday and collected blankets for us. There was a great response to that for which we are extremely grateful. Don Vigus' SS class collected heavy socks and gloves for us to pass out and the Friendship class takes up a collection for us year round and is incredibly faithful in providing that for us.

A good thing about passing out blankets this week was that everybody at the first stop had something to sit on instead of cold concrete. It might be an old wive's tale, .......