Sharefest

This morning was Sharefest, which meant that churches all across town got together volunteers and literally inundated the area with spring clean-up projects. There were something like 1,700 people from my church involved in everything from landscaping to laying gravel on trails and from ripping up carpet to painting, with plenty of hauling things, cleaning things, and sewing quilts for RFKC thrown into the mix.

And, because we’re Americans, there were plenty of Spudnuts and coffee thrown into the mix to lure people out of warm beds way too early on a Saturday morning.  

My parents and one sister cleaned and rearranged a Habitat for Humanity ReStore, while I painted paneling outside of the Union Gospel Mission offices with some of the youth group girls. We were slightly convinced that our fingers were going to simply freeze and fall off in the morning air, but cold was better than the rain that was forecasted (and never came).

Still, it was a good chance to hang out with the girls as they served alongside adults from the church, making this something that was not only bigger than them but also bigger than the youth group. The first, is not so unusual. The second… tends to come far more rarely.

But, we’re working on it!