An Awesome Friday!

Hey parents and everyone, Johnny here just wanting to give a quick update on another awesome day! The middle school team spent there time today at Center for the Homeless. The team started off the day with a tour of the center and getting to hear the vision from one of the staff at CFH, Peter Lombard. After hearing from Peter the team had a chance to hear from Stephanie and Andrew, two of the residents at the Center. It was an amazing/inspiring/educational/encouraging time as these two great people shared their struggles and their hardships and explained how the Center helped bring them out of that and offer them hope and a hand up, not a hand out. After hearing and seeing the compelling vision of the Center, the team jumped in right away and worked incredibly hard in spite of the heat! The team worked on the Community Garden outside that the MOVE mission teams have been a part of since 2007 when the Garden began in what was then an old abandoned lot. The team also worked inside sorting through donations that had been cleaned and were ready to be sorted in order to provide clothing for some of the residents.

The high school team meanwhile was over at the Monroe Circle Community Center working hard at some big projects that were needing some attention. So many great programs are using that space and thanks to all the great organizational work of the team today those programs will continue to have easy access to all the materials and supplies needed to run those ministries. The team then went out into the community and brought many of the kids back for a "Fun Friday" with Rick Glassman and his amphibian and reptilian friends! Rick was great teaching the kids about toads, frogs, lizards and snakes and even brought some along for the kids to see, touch and hold. It was an awesome time seeing some of the kids (and the Move team) with a 5 foot snake draped over their shoulders!

After getting cleaned up, the team had a fun night up at Hacker's golf 'n games! Driving golf balls, playing putt-putt, driving go-carts and hitting the batting cages with an amazing, hard-working, fun-loving group of teenagers and leaders is an amazing way to spend a Friday evening in the summer!

Tomorrow the teams flip flop, high school to Center for the Homeless and middle school to Monroe Circle Community Center!