Tuesday Recap

During morning glow, Sam and Gray challenged us to be difference makers.  We went to two new work sites today, the Hunger Task Force Stockboxes and Grow MKE.  The Stockboxes provide food for senior citizens and Grow Milwaukee is a vision to fill a vacant lot, in the Washington Park neighborhood, with a sustainable community garden. Our work today was challenging but also fulfilling.

In addition to these new sites, the raised beds were finished at the UM Children's Services, as well as staining porches and weeding.

The Stockbox group continued on to the HTF Farm this afternoon for planting and riding on a tractor! A novel experience for most of us, minus Ginger.

Of course we are in Milwaukee on the hottest day of the year so far!  Man, did those showers get a work out this afternoon.

After dining at Kopp's, a local favorite, we were off to the Major League Baseball game.  The highlight was back-to-back homers by the Brewers which meant their mascot slid down the slide out in left field.  And Luuuuuuu went yard in the 6th.  To capture the game, the Brewers hit a walk-off home run! Our group is convinced they are the good luck charms. 

We completed our day with devotions.  It was a late night out on the town, but we know it's still important to reflect on the day and dig deeper in our faith.  We began by debriefing with our work teams as Luke asked us a series of questions about our day.  Becky then shared an "AHA!" moment she experienced as she watched Stuart Scott's acceptance speech at the ESPYs last week.  As a group, we watched the powerful and moving speech and then tied his message into our theme this week - Looking at things Different!  We read Psalm 119:105, "Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path."  As Catherine prompted our journaling, we began listening to the song Learning to be the Light .  We wrote about three things Stuart Scott mentioned he found important as he faced the challenges of cancer.  We were able to reflect on how we live by being the light for others.  We then journaled why we live by discussing what we thought our purpose was in life and then we wrote about the manner in which we live.  It's easier for us to live this way up here because we have less distractions, but this journaling challenged us to find ways we could apply this to our life back home in Gastonia.  The last question we pondered was what does a brighter world, living in His world, look like?  We found that the good news is that this bright world already exists because He is the truth, we just need to follow his light & share it with others so that we may illuminate the world!

It's been a very long day but also extremely rewarding.  We are looking forward to a day of respite tomorrow as we venture into Chicago for our fun day!