Coffee anyone
and meet ‘til you drop. We had talked
for some time about trying to offer bread and coffee on Saturday mornings for
passer-byers. We wanted to invite people
to service and offer some reading material and visit. So, we decided to get going on that this
Saturday. I had made 2 large loaves of
banana bread and several small loaves as well.
We took our big coffee pot and headed to the building. Of course, it was one of the windiest days we
have had. We know January has the
reputation for being windy, and sure enough we got to experience this
firsthand. It wasn’t anything like the stateside
snow totals, so I shouldn’t ‘complain.’
It was hard to keep the napkins, breads, coffee cups, etc. form blowing
away. Even so, we had 28 people to stop
by for a try! We were excited about that. Even though we are inviting people to
services, we also are trying to get more and more recognition among people in
the area. So, we are prayerful this will
be a way to get to know people. We plan
to do this every Saturday for at least a month to 6 weeks to see if we can
shave an impact. This was originally
Caleb, Della and Lucky’s idea in Ataco and we are just following their example. Dwaine mostly worked on cleaning while Cesar
and I greeted people. We started about
8:30 and it was our goal to finish about 10 to 10:30 so we could get home. I was fixing lunch for Eliza, Yoli and Linda
so we could meet about lunch for the preacher’s meeting and plan the ladies’
class. Everyone arrived between 12 and
12:30 and we enjoyed some chili and fixings.
The menu was the easy part and then on to the ladies’ class. We talked about this for quite a while. We did settle on a theme, Flowers for Me…a
lesson on self-esteem in Juayua on Feb 6th. We planned food, décor, games, devo, master
of ceremonies door prizes and crafts. We
met until 6:30ish. Wow, who would have known it would take so long. The good side, was that we covered a lot of
ground, had great fellowship and the following ladies’ classes should be easier
to organize. Dwaine had spent noon till 3 cleaning and scrubbing floors at the
building. When Kelly, Kiki and Nicole
arrived, he drove them to our house because he wanted to use the internet for a
particular study. Cesar came for the study too and it went well. Afterwards, I worked on Sunday school
preparation and Dwaine did some studying.
That makes for two days of getting up about 3. I was thinking of getting to bed a little
earlier, but alas, it was almost midnight.
Bread and Coffee
Meeting with Yoli, Linda, Eliza and Me!
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