Back at it?

Well, I think the plan is to hit the streets again this sunday night. Sarah and I both have a rehearsal with the praise band for Youth Councils so we will likely not be able to go. But, it seems like everyone else is rip-rearing-ready to go (I think that's a newfie expression). In anycase, since I won't be there I probably shouldn't plan. But if you want to post a comment to get this party started, that'd be awesome.

I guess depending on what time y'all decide to get out there . . . Sarah and I may be able to meet up with you.

Census

I was just thinking . . . we saw more people on Sunday night giving out stuff than we did on Sunday morning in church . . . for "worship".

Added some people

Hey. I've added a list of people that we had a chance to meet on Sunday. It's on the right, closer to the bottom. Keep praying for them.

Night One

Good Job, team. Let's look at our official stats:

• Hot Chocolate Served: 75 cups
• Cheeseburgers: 25
• 'Delta Force' members present: 9

Pretty awesome. Kristy has a list of people that we met and she's going to email that to me - I'll post it here - probably on the side somewhere. It will be cool to post some of our favorite moments here. It was great to get down there and realize that even at the bus depot there are a lot of people that need food and hats.

What we've resolved to do is:

• We need to talk to the powers at be - they need to be aware of what's going on, based on our organizational structure alone.
• Given that that step goes well - we're going to look at getting down there with the canteen and start bringing people some real food.
• We need to do this every week.
• We will do this every week - sometimes following Bible study, sometimes on another night (and we do like the idea of becoming 'regulars' somewhere in the area.

Blessings all. Thanks for everyone that came and that bought stuff and that prayed. More to come.

Much more.

Another Need

Update Time: So everyone knows, we have a thermos. There's a good one at the corps.

For buying the hot chocolate . . . I'm not sure. I guess I'd suggest we nominate someone to get it and we all pitch in. Pitch in what you can . . . we all don't have to pitch in the same amount. We just need to nominate someone to get it. Daniel and Christina were first to mention it . . . perhaps they'd be the best choice. We don't really need that much I guess . . . if we buy a couple tins of swiss miss, i guess that's enough right. You can get a lot of HC out of one tin. Maybe you could get with Tilden to figure out how big this things are that he's getting to hold and dispense it. Don't forget you'll also need one or two boxes of sugar-free.

Stir sticks are covered, thanks to Sarah.

We still need someway of getting this stuff around, like a wagon or something. ANd Tilden pointed out that we may need a few garbage bags. I'll be in charge of both of these . . . but if you have any suggestions, please let me know. I don't know where to find a wagon. Worst case, we'll buy something.

So . . . we're just about covered.

I'll keep you up to date.

The List

Did you like the title? Charmin Ultra? The charmin is for CHARlotte MINistry. The ultra makes it sound like toilet paper.

So here's the list for sunday:

• Hot Chocolate Kegs - Tilden is taken care of this.
• Buy Hot Chocolate . . . not sure how much we need or what kind to get (like packets or a tin of powder) - we also talked about sugar free hot chocolate. We could probably buy a box of that and bring a thermos of hot water. Does anyone have a large thermos we could tote around with us?
  
• Cups and lids.
• Stir-sticks for the sugar-free hot chocolate.
  
• Some way of getting the hot chocolate around with us . . . like a wagon or something. Anybody got any ideas?
• If you have any extra blankets, coats, gloves, other warm stuff, bring it along in a backpack or something.

I think that's all I've got right now. Let me know what you think, or if you can think of anything else.

Praying for you guys. See y'all soon.

Grace.