CSCL Painting Day #1

After we got everything cleaned up, it was time to paint! We painted the walls and the wainscoating in the sanctuary. We also tackled the basement and painted all of the walls and the ceiling white. We painted the shelves blue.

City Sights City Lights First Night

Our group before we left


Sarah and Brianna


1/2 of Elle, Hannah and B.J.


We will be working at Little Rock Church, a church made up of immigrants.


We will paint upstairs in the sanctuary.

We will clean and paint in the basement. It's not very big.


This is Steve, the youth pastor at Presbyterian Church Bowling Green. He organized the trip.


Here is everyone listening to Steve at Little Rock Church.

We'll post more tomorrow!

Some More Favorite Pics From Toronto

These pictures are in no order. Descriptions are under the pics.


The Scott Mission Crew after a hard day's work (yep, those are hairnets and Caitlyn thinks she can fly)



You know you wish you would have thought of this...

Stephen messing around with my camera while everyone else was in bad mood about having to wait in line so long at the Windsor bridge.


Harrison slept most of the way home (stole this pic from Sarah)

When he woke up, he had enough energy to climb the van



A Canadian and his dog, eh.

John at the Hard Rock Cafe

Marielle, Julia, Ashley and Caitlyn with Mary Ann at Florence Booth (a 60 bed women's shelter)

Jeremy likes Toronto.

Ellyn and Cheryl on the Beach

Diane and Ann (one of our youthworks staffers) on the beach

Ellen and her sandman.

Toronto Pics on Snapfish

The Pics

They are crazy out of order for some reason and I think that snapfish might make you start a snapfish account to view them, so I guess you have to decide if it's worth it!

BUT, if you don't have a snapfish account, and you don't want to start one, email me. I'll share my login info with you.

BTW, you can order snapfish photos online and then pick them up at Walgreens the same day.

Also, please share your photos with me--especially if you went to another ministry site. I missed out on what most of you were doing all week because I was with the Florence Booth girls (you girls rock!).

A Few Trip Pictures

Jeremy and John squeezed into the van while we wait to cross into the states.

The Scott Mission Crew with Brent, the volunteer coordinator.

Robert and Becky at the Blue Jays game


The Presbytery of Western Kentucky High School Youth

Stefan and Ashley at the park

Shanay and Rae Ann at the Hard Rock Cafe

Caitlyn, Marielle, and Alyssa at the Blue Jays game


The old folks having fun at the HRC (Jon, Cheryl, Rebecca, Becky, Stephen, Diane).


Elizabeth, Buck and Hillary before church at the Kirk in the Hills (Bloomfield Hills, MI)

Ashley, Stephen, Becky at the Hard Rock Cafe.

John, Ellen, Meredith, Brianna, Sarah, Harrison before church in Bloomfield Hills, MI.


Brianna, Meredith, Sarah at HRC

The Henderson group before we left (Becky, Shanay, Jeremy, John, Harrison, Robert, Stephen, and Caitlyn)

Leslie, Hillary, Elizabeth and Ellyn


Caitlyn and Marielle digging a hole

Sarah, Harrison, Meredith at the beach


Austin, Phillip, John, Harrison and Stephen love the Blue Jays!!!!!

Summer Fun

John and Harrison do a skit during worship

John doesn't even try to hide the fact that he sleeps in church...

Aimee

Sarah up a tree

David

Mimi, Shanti, Shanay, Aimee, Sarah, Robert

I tried to delete this pic b/c Mimi isn't looking...but it wouldn't let me!

We made the following video at Youth Group on Sunday night. Unfortunately several of our friends were out--but we hope everyone enjoys the broadcast!

Youth Sunday Was SPECTACULAR!

The teenagers in the youth group at the Presbyterian Church are *my* heroes! They did a great job with their service!

Ben played his trumpet...Sarah H. sang a solo...the youth choir sang a couple of songs...David, John, Robert and Sarah B. led prayers...The group led the congregation in several songs...Sarah H. gave a children's sermon...Aimee, Amanda and Sarah B. read scripture...we had a skit where everyone played a superhero who quickly realized that none of them were a greater super hero than God, and a skit where Harrison and John played Batman and Robin finding a clue about the Sacrifice of Jesus....Mary and Harrison shared messages they had written...We shared a slide show with the year's activities in pictures...Mary and Harrison gave a benediction and the youth choir sang a response.

It was a wonderful, hopeful, faithful day. I was very proud of the group for how they supported each other and worked together to share Jesus above all. At the second service, especially, they really seemed to relax and let God use them.