Day Five — Allyse Hackler, Matt Martiny and Jeff Jensen

At today’s worksite we sorted something different. Do you know how some girls are embarrassed about purchasing feminine products? Well I no longer am. Today my group sorted multiple boxes of Kotex, Poise, and Depends. I DON’T THINK I’VE EVER SEEN SO MANY FEMININE PRODUCTS IN MY LIFE…IT WAS INTENSE! The East Letcher Ministry Center receives more donations than their own community needs so the three palettes we sorted today were being shipped to places like Africa. Moving on to our next task: clothes sorting. We spent the better part of an hour organizing Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s clothing. Once the clothes were sorted, a line of people began to browse for easy finding. Meanwhile the other group was back at the house that we worked on yesterday, finishing up the dry wall. Back at the Community Center Kendra, Anne, and I were sorting out simple stuff like shampoo and soaps. We decided it would be a good idea to take these toiletries to the line of people that waited for their monthly free food pickup. The minute I stepped outside, I was mauled by people from every possible angle. But something today caught my attention. There was a woman in her 40s, who came up to me, and looked at me with the kindest eyes, and she said to me “This is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me, God bless you child.” From that moment, I didn’t really take the compliment that importantly, but as it lingered upon me for a bit, I realized that you can change the world, by one random act of kindness at a time. 

-Allyse Hackler 

Today for recreation, we enjoyed a nice game of roundball on the Homes Inc. Forum (aka the half court basket). Jay Lehoczky, Andrew Garner, Kelly Ingersoll, Matt Cockle and Jay Todd Max and myself were playing our beautiful game of intense competition, when suddenly, Jay Todd went up for a rebound and landed on Mr. Garner’s foot.  Mr. Max ended up spraining his ankle and the game ceased due to this accident.  We also went to some Bentley store that had random items.  We also played the bean bag game, as well as listened to a huge rainstorm, complete with hail. Later we had pasta for dinner and I wrote seven letters to my sister.  Then we went to Mike Johnson’s Dairy Bar, and realized that there are Pepsi and Coke ads on the premises.  Mike Johnson’s is no White Castle, but its still pretty baller.  Then we had worship and I wrote this blog, which coherently isn’t that good, but we didn’t do much of note, unlike last year where we went to WHITE CASTLE.

-MATT MARTINY 

Tonight in worship we wrapped up the entire week.  We discussed many important events that occurred during the day.  A few examples were of what happened today while renovating the new build and what happened while working in the east Letcher ministries (elm).  Although I only worked at the new build, I heard some funny and interesting stories which made me feel good about what our group had conquered this week.  Also in worship, we said many prayers thanking God for the opportunities we have been given and how God allowed us to help less fortunate people than ourselves.  Closing up the worship tonight we gave out our prayer partner gifts and said our closing prayers. 

-JEFF JENSEN