Sunday, March 6, 2011

A Time To Serve

02/12/2011 Improvement #3

Ahhh...Saturday...A day to sleep in, cook a big breakfast, and be lazy around the house all day....turned out to be wishful thinking.  I woke up around 4 am like I do most mornings.  I wake up and read the news on my Droid, play a little bit of my world war mmo video game, and then check for interesting posts on Facebook.  I was laying in bed around 4:30 in the morning when I noticed a post by a friend of mine named Jonathan.  He was in charge of a volunteer team heading out of Summit Church for a community serve day they call NiceServe.  He made a post asking if anyone would be free today to grill hot dogs....I figured hey...what else am I going to do today so I sent him a reply.  A few hours later my wife Debbie and I were at Summit Church with our volunteer team.  Our assignment was to go have a field day with a group of kids from a Methodist Foster Program.  My job, specifically, was to grill up some delicious hot dogs.  As it turned out I had an absolute blast playing dodgeball, kickball, and dozens of other field games with the kids...the hot dogs weren't ready on time, but there were a lot of happy kids that day....including me.  I went home with a recharged spirit and the idea that improvement number 3 would be to volunteer more often.  So I did.

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