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| Hiking through Reedy Creek |
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| Texture |
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| 80 year old fallen tree |
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| Discovering snails and slugs |
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| Snail friends! |
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| Hello Mr. Snail |
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| Plays at Reedy Creek with a giant stuffed Snail puppet! |
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Roman column cookies
We reviewed the fall of the Roman Empire in "Story of the World Book 2" |
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Who knew Roman columns would be so tasty? And resemble patriotic Christmas cookies?
They sang "Jingle Bells" while decorating these... |
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| Headed to the first KIDS CARE Club event |
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| Putting together Blessing Bags to give to our homeless neighbors |
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| Praying over these bags, the kids said things like "Help them to be warm in their new socks" and "Thank you we have extra money to help others" and "We pray they like the candy" and "Help the people feel loved" and "Help us find the people fast." We included a printout of local resources for homeless friends and a gospel tract. |
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| Some members of the KIDS CARE Club |
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| Such precious friends! |
One quick story...
As I was standing in line to get totes (33 of them) for the Blessing Bags at the local Dollar Tree, a woman behind me asked me where I found them because they were so cute and was I using them for gift bags? I told her about our KIDS CARE Club and that we were making Blessing Bags so we'd be prepared to give when we meet homeless friends in our community. She thought that was the neatest thing and asked if it was part of a church and how long we'd been doing this.
I explained the club was an idea of mine to get our family more involved with volunteering around the community and this was our first event, but we had made Blessing Bags as a family and it was a wonderful thing to do!
Then she told me something that blew me away... she said her brother was homeless! He had just entered a rehab facility in Asheville. Then she thanked me for doing this - for showing care and love to others, like her brother.
I know God put her right in line behind me at the Dollar Tree for a reason - to confirm that all the organization, the follow-up, the time, energy, money, effort put into loving our neighbors is worth it. Because loving our neighbors is loving our brothers, our sisters, our daughters, our sons, our mothers, our fathers... I can't WAIT to see what God has in store for us as we intentionally love our community together!
His, Mama G
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