PRAYING PELICANS
The Praying Pelicans Mission Group was wonderful to connect us to Whiteville, North Carolina. Deanna, our main contact, has been fabulous to work with our young family to find service opportunities that we were able to do with the ages of our kids. She has a 2 year old and 7 month old of her own that joined us on the trip on Saturday evening. To juggle her family as well as handle our family and the other youth group and all the organization and planning and preparing for us is amazing to me. She is centered on Christ and loves what she does so she can serve and help and then also give others opportunities to serve too.
The other youth group that joined us in Whiteville for this weekend mission trip was from Virginia and drove down in a bus. They were 13 years old through 18 and there were about 12 youth and several adults. They too were Christ centered and were there to serve. They were fabulous examples of goodness to our kids and I am grateful for them as role models this weekend. The kids played piano with them, played uno and musical chairs with us, and late night games. It was great to see those youth so happy to be there on this trip and get dirty and work hard.
THE LIBRARY
We did not know exactly what to expect for our lodging accommodations. The kids had all kinds of funny images in their heads of where we would be staying, knowing there had been a hurricane. We ended up having the most fascinating room of the entire church be our bedroom for the weekend: the church library. The library had bookshelves full of very old books. There were old encyclopedias, old Charles Dickens stories, religious theory books from the 1940’s, childrens picture books from the mid 1900’s, and much more.
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