Tag: help

Get your hands dirty :: July 12

July 12th folks from encounter – as well as anyone else interested will spend a day working in and around Daniel’s Den in Waxahachie. Daniel’s Den is a ministry in Waxahachie, with the goal of reaching and helping the homeless of Ellis County.

There are a number of ways folks can help:

  • the back porch screen needs to be repaired
  • lots of caulking needs to be done
  • furniture needs to be moved
  • edging and mulching the front yard (mulch is free but trucks are needed)
  • flowers planted in the front
  • new lid (and or box) for trash box to keep dogs out of trash cans
  • fence needs to be built in the rear of the property
  • banana boxes needed to help organize garage sale items
  • garage sale items need to be organized
  • door needs to be painted and installed
  • items need to be moved from the old shelter location to the new one
  • shelves need to be installed in pantry

items needed:

  • 8′ ladder
  • twin bed and mattress sets
  • 2 full size mattresses (mattress only)
  • flowers
  • fencing
  • caulk and caulking guns
  • shelves

In addition to the regular work that day, if you’re interested in helping put together food and drink for those working that day, please let us know as well.

If you see something you’re interested in and would like to help, please let me know.

Thought for Monday

Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.
Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy; share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.
Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. “I’ll do the judging,” says God. “I’ll take care of it.”
Romans 12: 11-19 (The Message)

Thanks for the reminder Thomas

Monkeys

Trentham Monkey Forest

Michael Robinson sent me a story We Aren’t Monkeys, about an upset waitress.

Ever stop and think while you’re in a restaurant, that there might be other people there needing help too?

Sunday after church we visited a local restaurant where only two ladies were waiting tables.

I felt sorry for the two ladies who were definitly working their tail off to make sure everyone had everything.
Sure, it was annoying to have to wait a while to get a menu and my water and what not, but you can only expect two waitresses to do so much.

But I’ve been in places and seen ridiculous demands put on wait staff.

And unfortunately the friends I have that wait tables or have waited tables always tell me how much they hate the Sunday crowd.

They all say its the worst time to wait tables.

The church crowd is more demanding, less merciful, complains that the wait staff is working on a Sunday and not worshipping with them — and they’re usually the worst tippers.

And then they want to leave a tract to tell the wait staff how much God loves them.

That makes me want to join a church right away.

And they will know that we are Christians by our tips.