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One of our traditions, as a family, is to make Fridays special. One the reasons we do that is because I, Greg, have Fridays off of work. So, it works best, when I am off, to be able to concentrate on doing things as a family. During the summer, each person in the family has a designated Family Friday, on which they can determine what we do for that day together. One of our goals, as a family, is to be a blessing to others, and one way to do that was to do some service projects together.
Isabella, whose day it was last week, goes to a Christian school that happens to be Lutheran. She and her brother, Alex, have a certain amount of Christian service projects that are required by the school. There was an elective project this summer, working with an outreach program to inner city Cleveland. One of the projects they worked on, was to send food to Haiti, especially to children who are still going hungry there. This was our family service project for the day.
It was an extra blessing because Teresa's parents, Dan and Fran, from Florida, were staying with us at the time. So, the came along with us, all 9 of us, going to a party center at a Lutheran church, in order to package meals for the hungry in Haiti. The experience as a family was just awesome. There was a time of music and worship, to begin with, along with a couple of the leaders talking about the hungry in Haiti and what we were going to be able to do, together, to minister to them.
Then, we put on head coverings, aprons and gloves, to join an assembly line, packaging food. In a little over 2 hours, the whole group that was gathered packaged 20,000 meals to send to Haiti. WOW! But, the greatest part for me, was to watch our family work together. Each table, assembly line, had 12 people at it. So, there were our 9, plus 3 other people we didn't know. At one end of the table were 4 food bins: soy, vegetable, chicken and rice. In the middle of the bins was a big funnel, down which the food would be poured from cups, and then plastic baggies for the bottom of the funnel, to gather the food. The baggie was then passed to someone to weigh the bag, because it had to be 13.8 ounces exactly. Whether it was a little under or a little over, a couple of us then took some rice out (the food at the top) or added some rice, to make it the right weight. Then, finally it was passed down to those who sealed the bags and passed on to those who were packing the boxes to be loaded onto the trucks.
It was a pretty cool set up. I watched my family smile, laugh, work hard, and most pleasingly, work together! I am so proud of them, happy to be called their son-in-law, husband, and dad!
In just a couple hours of time, we felt like we had actually helped some children stay alive in another part of the world. It was well worth the time and effort to plan, prepare, and to participate. Thanks, God, for this wonderful blessing and opportunity!
Isabella, whose day it was last week, goes to a Christian school that happens to be Lutheran. She and her brother, Alex, have a certain amount of Christian service projects that are required by the school. There was an elective project this summer, working with an outreach program to inner city Cleveland. One of the projects they worked on, was to send food to Haiti, especially to children who are still going hungry there. This was our family service project for the day.
It was an extra blessing because Teresa's parents, Dan and Fran, from Florida, were staying with us at the time. So, the came along with us, all 9 of us, going to a party center at a Lutheran church, in order to package meals for the hungry in Haiti. The experience as a family was just awesome. There was a time of music and worship, to begin with, along with a couple of the leaders talking about the hungry in Haiti and what we were going to be able to do, together, to minister to them.
Then, we put on head coverings, aprons and gloves, to join an assembly line, packaging food. In a little over 2 hours, the whole group that was gathered packaged 20,000 meals to send to Haiti. WOW! But, the greatest part for me, was to watch our family work together. Each table, assembly line, had 12 people at it. So, there were our 9, plus 3 other people we didn't know. At one end of the table were 4 food bins: soy, vegetable, chicken and rice. In the middle of the bins was a big funnel, down which the food would be poured from cups, and then plastic baggies for the bottom of the funnel, to gather the food. The baggie was then passed to someone to weigh the bag, because it had to be 13.8 ounces exactly. Whether it was a little under or a little over, a couple of us then took some rice out (the food at the top) or added some rice, to make it the right weight. Then, finally it was passed down to those who sealed the bags and passed on to those who were packing the boxes to be loaded onto the trucks.
It was a pretty cool set up. I watched my family smile, laugh, work hard, and most pleasingly, work together! I am so proud of them, happy to be called their son-in-law, husband, and dad!
In just a couple hours of time, we felt like we had actually helped some children stay alive in another part of the world. It was well worth the time and effort to plan, prepare, and to participate. Thanks, God, for this wonderful blessing and opportunity!
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