Serving in the community and Lowes #2

Today we got to the church at 8 AM for our service project. We were assigned to the Shawnee Community Center at 67th and Nieman, which is literally 1 minute from our house. (It is a place that provides food for poor people, and otherwise sells old stuff to pay bills). Jeff Meador provided the supplies. And Brent Ahsmus, our small group leader, assessed the situation and decided we needed a coordinator. He appointed Courtney to do that. And she did a great job. Although I managed to jokingly ask "Who made her boss?" when she wasn't around.

The first task was trying to open a 5 gallon bucket of paint. We tried to open just a small hole at the top, and we shook it. But it still came out nasty (nastily?). So then we had the idea of popping the entire top off. And then we stirred with sticks. Then the wonderful tool of an electric drill paint mixer appeared, and that did the trick.

My dad happened to be there, and he caulked some holes. We primed some spots that were especially corroded on the wall. Then we painted with a grey-ish paint. All 4 walls were painted with different colors. Due to the free paint that we recieved from Porter paints, we didn't have much choice. But they were all nice colors.

In addition, the front of the building got new panelling, and it was painted as well. It looks really great. We drove by the place this afternoon.

I also helped carry in some food from a lady's van, and some fruit from a lady's car.

Courtney also discovered another person at church who has the gluten allergy. He said he was the 3rd case of this in Kansas City (long time ago). This happened when everyone was eating bagels and donuts except for us two apparently.

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Our second visit to Lowe's we waited around for 20 minutes for help in the ceiling fan section. Does anyone else not get much help at hardware stores? The fan we wanted on display could not be found as a box below. It was the kind of waiting where you finally decide to sit down on the floor, and play Bejeweled on the Palm Pilot. And it was the kind of waiting where the guy from the plumbing section is trying to help in the ceiling fan section. Finally, the Carl, the real ceiling fan section guy, discovered there were not any in the store. So Carl offered the display for $15 off. So we thought that was worth the wait. He removed 3 blades for us, so it would fit in my Camry, and we were on our way. So props to Carl.