Celebrate Good Times Come On…
WOW… what a day at Renovation…
started this morning as a group of guys came together at 6.00 am for Men’s Fraternity! Awesome to see and hear quick stories of men that are desiring to be all that God wants them to be… to live UP in a culture that is calling men down… is going to be a great journey this year… any man can come you just have to get up…!
Praise the Lord for a little help from our friends… we had to haul up a bunch of tables/chairs up from the basement into Renovation Station as we are getting ready for our Strategic Service Fall Kick Off event Saturday night… we are going to have a lot of fun… there is a theme but I’m not saying… all strategic service volunteers you should have received your invitations… 4.30 – 6.30 pm Saturday night in the PowerZone Theater!
This is for ALL teams… First Impressions… Tech…. Renovation Students… Renovation Station… Administration…. everybody is invited!
Saw so many kids at Homework Club this evening playing outside that live all around us… DJ, Rolondo and many others… very cool!
We got our Divorce Care Group up and running tonight… this is open to anybody… call office for details.
Our ladies Bible Study Group was a huge hit… 24 ladies showed up w food in hand… potluck style! I poked my head in the room (food smelled great) for a minute… just blown away by the ladies I saw in the room… crazy good!
Joshua and his leadership Crew did an outstanding job of creating a great environment for our students this week… looked great and then to see almost 50 kids walk in… it was off the hook!
Just a side note… there is all kinds of activity this week going on across the street at the caz mini mart. Much more than what has been normal… groups of kids mostly guys hanging out… wannabe Crips and Bloods… wearing there colors… 15, 20, 25 kids sometimes just hanging out in front of store… nothing good going on for sure… so we have some girls that have been coming to Renovate from Jasper Parish (a very tough project) and so here they come again tonight. There is like 8 or 9 of these girls walking up the street and they get to the mini mart and of course all the dudes start talking them up and saying crazy stuff. So I am watching this unfold as I am walking over to the RC with Coffee for the ladies group… i start to wonder will these girls have what it takes to come on over and cross the street leaving these guys and all of their peer pressure behind… they pass and walk to the corner… then they peel off and the girls cross the street leaving the dudes behind and walk into an environment that is safe, welcoming, warm, ready for them, adults ready to love on them and bless them…
All in all I gotta say to was a pretty good day… celebrate good times come on!
