Feed The Hunger

I helped a couple of times with Youthfront's Feed The Hunger initiative. I am proud of Youthfront for helping students serve the needy by packaging meals. This program has been in place at camp since last year, because today's students are not only interested in having a "fun time", but they want to express their faith in real ways.

When the Haiti earthquake occurred, Youthfront used their experience with this to invite students and families to Youthfront auditorium to package meals for Haiti.

The first time I went, I moved around 40 pound bags of rice and soy for a few hours.





The second time, we came with mom and dad and packaged a bunch of meals. How it works is you bring money to pay for the supplies, which Youthfront already purchased in advance, and you package the meals.









Courtney works for Youthfront and helped several times with registration.

Imagination

I appreciated Mike's post on Imagination

http://king.typepad.com/mike_king/2008/07/imagination.html

Pictures of a Chemical Plant Fire

Courtney took these pictures from her work yesterday

She went home early so that she didn't breathe in chemicals that were beginning to rain down. Does anyone else have stories about this explosion, or other fires?

What a weekend

Wow, what a weekend. Mo and I went to the Silent Auction for YouthFront. Courtney organized and did work for a lot of it. She was there from about 9 AM to 11 PM. The auction started at 6:30. Mo bid on about half the stuff, including $120 for a pair of $45 Jayhawks tickets. But luckily people outbid her on most of the stuff. Courtney and I won a few bids.

Then this morning before 8, Courtney packed her bag, and went to the Middle School Fall Retreat for church. she is teaching sunday school for the girls, and wanted to get to know them better.

I helped Ann and Nate Kurtz (Ann is my cousin) on their house. Part of that is showing up to play Ultimate Frisbee at 10 AM. So I went there and was surprised to see a few acquaintances for the first time since college. Raul and Sharon Morfii, Michael, and Tommy. And of course Christian and Katherine Zouein, my cousins, were there. Then I cooked some excellent brats and burgers for the workers at the house. Then I helped Christian to install Ann and Nate's wood floor. It is slow going, moving about 2 linear feet per hour. Their entire house is going to have the floor installed, so I think that will take a large number of hours...

It's not over. Then at 4:45 I headed home to mow the lawn. The battery had died, so I hooked up my new trickle charger. I had to wait 30 minutes (as I was losing daylight), and finally got the lawn mower to start and stay started.

So all this involved walking, running, throwing, bending, kneeling, pounding, standing, sweeping, sitting for over an hour because I was afraid the mower would die, and typing right now. And i'll look forward to hearing from Courtney about all she did at the retreat.

Altar

We went to the Altar at YouthFront Camp South. It's just a time to spend time with God in nature, and to also have worship times and small discussions. Bryson Rumple, our church's year-long intern was there. I beat him in ping pong.

Don Chaffer of Waterdeep led worship, surprisingly with 2 other aquaintances of mine. First, Greg LaFollette, he went to KSU and is friends with my friends Ben Deaver and James Beecher. So I said hey to him. Then UJ the incredible electric guitarist was there. He is friends with the Thiessens, and even plays in a band with Matt. So I said hey to him, and he was happy to meet me.

Then Don Chaffer gave Courtney a free CD for working the merchandise table. I chose "Enter the Worship Circle". One of my all-time favorites, but I've never owned it. I always just listened to my roommates' copies. Courtney has a similar story with the CD. I could have met Don but kind of froze. It did not make sense, but that is what happened.