Big Sunday 2011

This morning we participated in Big Sunday. This is an annual event that takes place in LA and Orange County. Thousands of people- with no religious, ethnic or gender boundaries come together to do service projects. Our church has participated the last few years. We close our doors on this special Sunday and go out into the surrounding communities. We are the hands and feet of Jesus- serving others in need.

There were beach clean ups, field gleaning, food collecting and sorting, sorting clothes for homeless, hair cutting for homeless, giving blood, writing letters to service men and women over seas-- the list goes on. These were only some that our church was a part of, but there were even more to choose from.
The rain put a damper on some of the projects, but most of them went off without a hitch and were quite successful. I had the privelege of being the coordinator for our church, The Journey Christian Church. But today was the culmination of all of the hard work that I and others at church put in. We had great team leaders and 270 volunteers from our church alone.
The boys and I went to the area Hub which was located at University Synagogue. We decorated flower pots, cleaned books for a literacy program, I gave blood and the boys decorated cookies. Since they are young they couldn't do everything that was offered, but it was wonderful to be around such caring people who all wanted to make a difference- Like us!