Hello from Boston!
This is Group 2 again sharing a little about our day. Honestly, there are way too many stories to share and not enough time to type them all. However, here goes today's events:
In the morning we started off the day like normal where we arrived again at the Salvation Army Children’s Learning Center. Today, like on Tuesday, we split into groups of guys and girls. This time the girls got to go with the kids to the pool while the guys stayed behind and worked on the VBS lesson for tomorrow. At the pool there was a lot of swimming under water, seeing how many diving rings each person could get, and swimming all around. For the VBS, the guys found their creative side and made posters for the skit sharing the major themes about what we would like the kids to take away.
After we left the Learning Center we drove into Downtown Boston with a task called Meet-a-Need. For this task we split into two teams and were each given $10 to go and find someone who had a need we could help them meet. Team A consisted of Jamie, Braden, Jake, Nick, and Chloe, while Team B consisted of Daryl, Beth, Micah, Andrew, and Kendra.
Team A walked down to the Boston Commons trying to find someone to help there. After a couple tries they came across a guy and a girl playing their guitars. When they spent several minutes with the guitar players they told their stories about how they train hopped from the West side of the country. (One was from California and the other was from Nevada). During the telling of their stories the group found out that their greatest need was socks. “Socks are gold.” So team A went and found a CVS to buy them socks and water. Upon bringing back the socks and water the guitarists actully ended up giving one of the waters over to another guy who was also in need. This guy was so amazed that someone in great need themselves would be so willing to help out another in need.
While that was happening with team A, team B found a homeless man named Mike sitting on the streets outside of a pizza shop. Mike shared with us some of his story. We found out that in the winter he travels to Los Angeles and is a homeless man on the streets there. He always comes back though because Boston is where he was born and raised. He informed us that a local church ends up paying for his way to get to Los Angeles each year. When asked what kind of needs we could help him out with, all his response was, was a large cheese pizza for his meal. The team entered the pizza shop and ordered a large cheese pizza and a bottle of water. He was very grateful for the help he received and knowing that he had a meal for tonight.
By the time the activity got done team B was going to pick up team A at their location in order to save time and hopefully get in a quick shower before dinner and Worship night. Well, due to a wrong turn, despite trying to follow the GPS, team B ended up going through a tunnel and over a bridge in Downtown Rush Hour Boston traffic 30 minutes in the opposite direction. By the time team B picked up team A it was an hour later. So much for a quick pick up. Needless to say, the showers may not have happened, but we did make it back in time for dinner and Worship night.
What a great day serving, a beautiful night worshipping with the other CSM group, debriefing with our big Niekerk team, and hanging out with each other!
Even though patience got tested today, God gave us a wonderful adventure and a marvelous day!
Good night friends and family! Thanks for all the prayers and support!
Beth
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