It was pretty awesome to serve shoulder to shoulder with the students - they're awesome! I hung around to order and pick up the pizzas (apparently Papa John's doesn't deliver to Centre Hall) so I showed up at lunch time (after NOT getting hot chocolate for Todd, I fail him in so many ways). Because of this I missed getting to spend time serving with our great group of Junior girls - I was bummed!
The weather is supposed to be crummy tomorrow (seriously it was 75 yesterday and they're calling for snow tomorrow - how is this even possible) so we had to postpone the painting of the studio and house. We'll probably head out there in about two weeks - many this will mean warm sunny weather?!
We had interesting discussions ranging from ghosts to gender roles in relationships to never being able to find a verse in the bible that you're trying to reference (and those people who know where every verse ever is located). I love how dynamic and completely willing to just go with it our group is!
Sometimes in the frenzy of preparing, picking up pizzas and getting paint flakes out of your eye it's easy to lose sight of why we were out there serving today. We were out there to BE the church - the church isn't a building, it's a group of people that love Jesus and serve those around them. HSM tries to be the hands and feet of Jesus and figure out what in the world that looks like in our world. I didn't get a chance to talk to Wendy and Jake much (I mean about topics other and scraping paint, cracked glass, or band aids), but it was nice to serve alongside of them. It was nice to meet my "neighbors". I'm glad Paul is who he is and was able to connect us to Wendy and Jake so we could serve them!
A lot to be thankful for today :) I'm about to head upstairs to snuggle with Marc, Lily, and Tucker - that's a good ending to a great day!
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