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Tuesday's Reports from 'Faith, Hope & Love' Week

[This first report is from Pastor Merlin Gonzales, Coordinator]

Today, we had 63 volunteers and we broke out in three groups.



The first group went to Miller’s Merry Manor to serve lunch to the employees. Thanks to Tony Roma’s for providing all the lunches today. Tawana, one of the volunteers played piano while the employees and the residents were eating their lunch. The rest of us spent time with the residents; we sat with them and listened to their stories. I saw some of the volunteers helped feed the elderly who were not able to feed themselves. One volunteer went around massaging the shoulders and feet of the employees and the residents. A volunteer provided manicure to one of the residents.

The second group, went to 86th St and Monon trail to give away bottles of water. They were on both sides of 86th St and some volunteers stayed in the median. It was great to see the youth being passionate in expressing their faith in Christ out in the public places.

The third group went to the Assisted Living at Miller’s. We served floats to the residents and some employees. Tawana played the piano while the volunteers spent time with the residents. Two teenagers performed a sign language dance for all of us.

There were numerous testimonials that it will take several pages to write all of them. Here are a few of them:

• Two volunteers decided to start visiting the elderly twice a month as their personal ministry.
• A couple of volunteers prayed with restless residents who calmed down right after the prayer.
• One volunteer received a ceramic wall décor from a resident. She later told me that this was the first time she’s doing this kind of outreach and was praying to God on the way to the Manor to use her to bless others.
• One pastor said that he was amazed that the cops did stop them from giving away water at the streets.
• Sarah received 24 free cases of water from a Wal-Mart store just by show up at the front of the store.
  

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And here's another report in from Pastor Wallace Smith at the outdoors Nora Elementary reading program...

We counted 35 children (children/parent family units) and gave away about 75 books (several people at the end took more than one book per child and we gave away a few complete sets of multiple books). Many thanks to Suzanne Zybert, the Nora Elementary Principal, who made personal contacts with several families who came by. We also served a girl scout troop of about 8 girls who were meeting at the parking lot to go camping and picked up a few good reads for the trip.

We are looking forward to Thursday night because it should be cooler, plus there is the soccer club that meets at Nora on Thursday nights and serves mostly Hispanic families. We still have around 150 books to give away and if we have extra after Thursday we will bring them to the Festival and/or take them to NCCoC to give to families during Clothing and Crayons for Kids.

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Outreaches on Wednesday, the 27th... Meet at North Central Church of Christ at 10:00am

[Stay tuned tomorrow for reports from Wednesday's service-projects in the community.]

[For further information on 'Faith, Hope & Love' Week, and this Saturday's festival, visit FHLcommunity.org]

posted by IndyChristian @ 8:51 AM