Our Needs

I almost forgot to mention the pleasure I had last weekend seeing Pete's first time speaking at the South Side Mission. It probably gets old seeing this same picture setting with a different person all the time on the blog. But it's exciting for me to have to think hard about what it's like up there your first time...and how much better he is at it. There was also a first timer at the Rescue mission Monday. A young Dejarnet gave it a shot for once instead of the old-timer.

I got to be the boss of 20 or so middle schoolers on Friday. I prepped all week for it memorizing names and formulating a raking strategy around the building. As an outreach project to the neighborhood, the middle school offers to rake leaves for it's neighbors on one big day every year. But my team got to take care of the school grounds.

I learned alot, including the motivational power of sugar. Stef, one of the wise ladies in the office, recommended ahead of time that I buy treats for the kids. Very good advice. I also learned the benefit of taking a kid to see the principal when he won't behave. He was my hardest worker the reset of the day. Anyway, it was great learning alot of names and finding out how popular I am.

Huckleberry Hobbs and I got to surprise Alyssa at work after choir today. I normally can't justify such ridiculously high priced food, but Cid's is where our pastry chef friend works and it was definitely worth making her day. Look at that 'tude on her face. "Oh ya, I got awesome friends"


The last productive thing to get done today was a quick gutter cleaning at Mary's house. She's one of the elderly ladies at our church who had clogged gutters one year. I've gotten to spend time hearing about what our church has been like over the last few decades while working on things around her house. She attended a lunch for our ministry to women today, and I got to hear about how that went. Today I also got a great quote from one of Bethany's previous pastors fitting for the coming holiday. "God promised to take care of our needs and not our greeds." I guess the problem for us these days is being grown up enough to know when or how something is a need.

Coincidentally, the last unproductive thing was finding that the only people to get into some movies are the ones who stick together to get what they want (but not today...tee hee)