NO COMPROMISE

On Thursday, we basically woke up and went to go finish our job over at Victory Church, moving furniture and doing inventory. Because my toe was throbbing so bad and I was limping, Molly assigned me to doing inventory for most of the day. I went around with a legal pad writing down and categorizing everything that we were organizing into different areas of the tents. We had a bedroom furniture section, a bed and bedding section, a living room section, an appliance section, a small-prize give-away section, a toilet-paper and hand-towel section, a kitchen section, a bathroom section, and several other smaller areas. Needless to say, I had written down a whole lot of items within each of those categories by the end of the day.

Victoria and Rachel, our Victory Church correspondents, came and checked our work and gave us the “thumbs up”. We finished at 2:30 pm, an hour and a half ahead of schedule. Steve, Sara, and I decided that it would be fun to drive over to the other side of the Mississippi with our unexpected free time. We saw lots of huge boats, barges, a ferry, a railroad drawbridge, and a train crossing the just-lowered drawbridge.

That evening we had a special run over to a community worship service with several other area missions groups – about 500 or more in all. The amazing, lively worship time, the speaker’s message, and the air conditioning was all just what we needed! I will not soon forget the speaker’s message that evening on not compromising in what we’ve been called out to do. Afterwards, we took our team and treated them to desserts at Sonics, a treat that we don’t see much of farther north.