It's looking like grilled cheese and tomato soup tonight! YUM. YUM. YUM.
We've got a new truck! Actually the church got a new truck but we use it every week and look at it as part of the family, so.....we've got a new truck!
It was put in the shop because the right front brake was feeling and sounding bad. They looked at it and said it would be $1800 to fix because they found a bunch of other brake and wheel related problems. The choice of the property management committee was fix and keep it long term or get something else. "Get something else" won. They traded it in and we got a 2003.
I'm kinda sad, though. I liked that truck. That truck had been with us since we started.
In honor of the service the truck gave us all these years, I'm going to tell a story about the truck.....plus it's a funny story and needs to be told every so often.
A couple of months into this ministry, back when it was still pretty much just me, Skyler, Jonathan, Mason, Drew and Colby, we loaded up the truck at The Activity Center and got ready to take our stuff downtown. The tailgate on the truck was a little hinky and you had to slam it good to make sure it was shut. We had two 8 ft. portable tables (the brown ones that took 2 people to carry), and 4 rectangular coolers with ice, drinks(this was back when we served canned drinks every week), and our food in the back. I was driving the truck and everyone else was in Jonathan's explorer.
As I pulled off out of the parking lot, I heard a large thump. I looked and saw someone had left a cooler on top of another and it had slid off. It wasn't the first time.
When we finished that night we loaded up to come back and one of the guys shut the tailgate. I said Did you slam it? They said Yeah.
I was in front of them at the stoplight at Dawson and 17th. When I pulled off I heard another thump. I thought Who keeps stacking coolers on top of each other?
I drove on to the A.C. and pulled around to back to unload. I got out and started to reach in the back to grab a cooler and....nothing. There wasn't a single thing in the back of the truck! NOTHING!
Aw crap.
So I jump in the truck and head back the way I came. When I get to the intersection of Independence and College, I see Jonathan's Explorer coming towards me, loaded down with everything I had lost.
They were still laughing and howling when they got out of his car.
Here's what happened:
When I took off at the light, one of the coolers slid and hit the tailgate, knocking it open (the thump I heard). The bed of the truck had a plastic liner which was fairly slick and when the tailgate went down, the tables now had nothing to keep them from sliding out, did exactly that. And tthe tables took all four coolers with them, right there in the middle of the intersection, in front of Jonathan and the other guys.
So now there's 4 coolers and 2 tables strowed across the intersection. A car comes through and slams into one of the coolers, knocking the top off the hinges. The guys pull over and start trying to get things out of the intersection. The ice cooler has upended and spilled out and Mason slips in it and goes feet up flat on his back in the middle of the road! They're laughing at that, laughing at the situation in general, trying not to get run over, wondering why I don't know everything fell out of the truck, trying to get it all loaded....just a big chaotic adventure.
The tables survived. The coolers were okay, except for the one that got hit, but we still used it. Mason had a nice bruise but was fine. I got the tailgate fixed and a reminder of the need to check everything myself before we pull out.
R.I.P. 1993 Ford truck
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Tuesday Sept 14
ELAINE / EMILY /CECELIA / JOHANNA / KAYLA / CAITLYN / KILLER / BRYANNA / LAUREN / LINDSAY / TYLER / MARK / T.J. / WADE / ALYSSA / ELLYN / MORGZILLA / DAVID / DON / STEVE / BLAKE / J. BOGGS / CHUCK /
MENU
HOT DOGS
GREEN BEANS
MASHED POTATOES with GRAVY
DESSERT
SWEET TEA / WATER
The #of people that we feed at the first stop jumped up over the summer and continues to stay there. There has been at least 30 people waiting in line when we say grace for several weeks now. Then another 15 or 20 walk up. That's huge for the first stop.
It has made us more aware of portion size and forces us to keep an eye on how much we have to make sure that we've got enough for the 2nd stop.
The menu components might seem a little odd at first glance, but it worked for us. It made for full plates, we had it on hand and we could involve lots of people in the prep and the serving.
Most of my regular adults were not there last night. I missed Wayne, Twig, Brien, Anna, Teresa, Teresa, and Mitch. But Don ( an irregular adult if there ever was one) showed up and we managed. It was tougher without them. Plus the truck's in the shop, so everything about transporting was a little different. And both long tables and a short table decided to just fall apart in different ways. It's funny how everything can be thrown off in big ways when a few little things change.
We'll make it though.
MENU
HOT DOGS
GREEN BEANS
MASHED POTATOES with GRAVY
DESSERT
SWEET TEA / WATER
The #of people that we feed at the first stop jumped up over the summer and continues to stay there. There has been at least 30 people waiting in line when we say grace for several weeks now. Then another 15 or 20 walk up. That's huge for the first stop.
It has made us more aware of portion size and forces us to keep an eye on how much we have to make sure that we've got enough for the 2nd stop.
The menu components might seem a little odd at first glance, but it worked for us. It made for full plates, we had it on hand and we could involve lots of people in the prep and the serving.
Most of my regular adults were not there last night. I missed Wayne, Twig, Brien, Anna, Teresa, Teresa, and Mitch. But Don ( an irregular adult if there ever was one) showed up and we managed. It was tougher without them. Plus the truck's in the shop, so everything about transporting was a little different. And both long tables and a short table decided to just fall apart in different ways. It's funny how everything can be thrown off in big ways when a few little things change.
We'll make it though.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tuesday 7, 2010
5 onions, 5 lbs of dry kidney beans, 10 lbs of kielbasa, 15 lbs of chicken breasts, 15 lbs of rice, some Old Bay, a little Gumbo File and a big pot of water. That's what we used to make our CHICKEN BOG Tuesday night.
We wound up with close to 14 gallons of it and were scraping the bottom of the cooler at the end of the night.
We served it with a couple of slices of light bread and had TEXAS PETE and cheese if you wanted it.
Now, as much as i love cheese, I don't want it on something like Chicken Bog, but nearly the folks coming through the line did.
Menu
CHICKEN BOG/LIGHT BREAD/DESSERT/SWEET TEA/WATER and Little Debbie Blackberry pies to hand out as they left.
PEYSON / MERRITT / ELLYN / T.J. / MARK / TYLER / ANDY / ANNA / BLAKE / STEVE / WAYNE / BRIEN / JESSICA / ELLIE / MAC / MRS. BONGIORNIO / CRUMP / ALYSSA / ELAINE / TREY / ASHLEY / KILLER / LAUREN / LINDSEY put thoughts into actions and words into service this week.
Danielle Bongiornio was one of our regulars who went off to college this year. She's a freshman playing basketball at Lenoir-Rhyne. The week before she left for school, she brought her two sisters (one older, one younger) with her so they could see what she's been doing on Tuesday nights for the past couple of years. That was a really neat thing. But the really cool thing is ....they've been coming ever since!
This past week they brought their Mom! It was like having 3 Danielle's with us. I hope they keep coming.
We wound up with close to 14 gallons of it and were scraping the bottom of the cooler at the end of the night.
We served it with a couple of slices of light bread and had TEXAS PETE and cheese if you wanted it.
Now, as much as i love cheese, I don't want it on something like Chicken Bog, but nearly the folks coming through the line did.
Menu
CHICKEN BOG/LIGHT BREAD/DESSERT/SWEET TEA/WATER and Little Debbie Blackberry pies to hand out as they left.
PEYSON / MERRITT / ELLYN / T.J. / MARK / TYLER / ANDY / ANNA / BLAKE / STEVE / WAYNE / BRIEN / JESSICA / ELLIE / MAC / MRS. BONGIORNIO / CRUMP / ALYSSA / ELAINE / TREY / ASHLEY / KILLER / LAUREN / LINDSEY put thoughts into actions and words into service this week.
Danielle Bongiornio was one of our regulars who went off to college this year. She's a freshman playing basketball at Lenoir-Rhyne. The week before she left for school, she brought her two sisters (one older, one younger) with her so they could see what she's been doing on Tuesday nights for the past couple of years. That was a really neat thing. But the really cool thing is ....they've been coming ever since!
This past week they brought their Mom! It was like having 3 Danielle's with us. I hope they keep coming.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The plan for tonight....
...is CHICKEN BOG.
Never made it.
Chicken and Pastry - done it.
Chicken and rice- done it.
Chicken Bog?
I'll let you know how it goes.
Maybe J. BOGGS knows how to make it.
Never made it.
Chicken and Pastry - done it.
Chicken and rice- done it.
Chicken Bog?
I'll let you know how it goes.
Maybe J. BOGGS knows how to make it.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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 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 /
Monday, August 2, 2010
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