Once a year Calvary decides to cancel our weekend worship services, pick up our rakes and shovels and paintbrushes, and go serve our neighbors. It’s really a humongous undertaking. It’s also one of the highlights of the year.
This year we decided to throw an overnight party for the youth group Saturday, which would lead us to serving together Sunday. So while Kim and I were out celebrating the nuptials of our dear friends Adam and Ginger, Kevin and Amy Sliman were getting things going back at the home base.
Our leaders are tremendous and stupendous. When Kim and I arrived, things were sailing along smoothly! We got everyone divvied up into vehicles just in time to make the 10pm showing of God’s Not Dead. If you haven’t seen it, you ought to. I’m generally skeptical of “Christian movies” due to the overwhelming Cheese Factor. But this movie was pretty good, and sparked some good conversation among us. We didn’t like everything about it, but it was a win.
Sunday morning found Mark Horn and his lovely wife Melissa in the kitchen, breaking a lot of eggs and whipping up pancakes for us. What a blessing, and a great start to our day!
We sent a few middle school girls off with a couple of ladies to work on another project in town while the rest of us traveled out to PA Furnace to visit our friend Sherry. She’s a single mom of 2 kids, battling cancer, and she was blown away by the sheer number of teenagers who invaded the yard! There were lots of opportunities for us to serve, and Sherry was so grateful. I had the opportunity to visit with her for about 30 minutes after most everyone headed back to town. She was almost in tears as we talked, and she wanted everyone to know how much this meant to her.
I love the fact that we are part of a church that puts a premium on serving, that values the input and investment of teenagers, that realizes that if we don’t live what we believe, then we don’t really believe it.
Props to the 34 students and 15 leaders who served with us this weekend.
I love your guts!
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