Good Eats and Goodbyes

Friday is the last day our team will be in Baltimore, and being the last day it was go, go, go.  They got so much done. For a service projects our team helped with the My Brother's Keeper soup kitchen.  Because of limited space only part of our team was able to help serve, so we sent five members to go help out.  The rest of our team stayed back at the church and cleaned up.  The Stillmeadow Evangelical Free Church was a great host to our team, and we wanted to repay the favor by cleaning up after ourselves and make it look as if we were never there.

Once the team arrived back at the church for lunch we had Miss Jeannette come and speak to our team about racism.  It was great for the students to hear about how she had to deal with racism in her workplace and how it is still a problem in today's society.

After lunch our whole team headed back to My Brother's Keeper to do some clean up around the building.  Some of the team picked up trash, some swept the sidewalk and porch, and others cleaned the railings and pillars.   The kids worked hard to clean up the building and didn't complain.  Every once and a while there was someone who would walk by while we were working and say that we were doing a great job.  That made the kids feel great about the work they were doing.

For the last night of VBS the team had a little photo booth with funny props to use.  The team and the kids at VBS and a great time trying out the different combinations of props and making funny faces.  There was also another session of Frisbee and a craft that involved making paper straw rockets.  We even had a hairdressing station, where some of the kids were doing the team leader's hair.  At one point they even braided the two girls's hair together.

In the small groups our teams talked about finishing strong and how even though you want to quit you should keep pushing to finish on a high note.  This was a great lesson for both the team and the students.  Seeing as it was the last day of the week and they had done so much work and were tired, our team had to finish strong for the kids that they were ministering to.

 It has been a great week seeing the kids grow in many different ways.  They stretched themselves to do things they didn't think they could do.