We had a team of 83 people, from 5 churches come and Serve
Medford a week ago. What a HUGE blessing it was to have so many people to help us reach and serve our community. The teams did a variety of projects from cleaning up parks, to washing local store windows, to giving away granola bars at T stops. Some passed out door hangers to promote our Community Fun Night. On Friday night of the week they were here, we hosted a Community Fun Night at a local park. There was free food, games and give-aways. We had over 300 people from our community come and hang out that night. The week was amazing and we were so blessed!
It was great to get to spend some time with our friends from
Ridgecrest in Durham. The kids had a blast hanging out with their youth. The
Ridgecrest team worked in the parks, so we were able to spend a good bit of time with them. Their last day serving, they were in the park across from our house. They even kept our kids so we could enjoy a date one evening. What a blessing to have such sweet friends be here with us for a week!
Our Serve Medford Team
Ridgecrest Team (and our family)
Tom Buck worked hard replacing rotted wood on park benches all week. Cindy is here painting one of the benches in our park. They look great and are in much better condition now.
Ava clung close to Carly. It was sweet to see her connect with Carly and enjoy spending time with her. The Davis family even let Ava come and spendthe night with them at the hotel one night. She had a blast!
The
Ridgecrest team spread wood chips at our park.
It made such a difference.
Capen Street Park
Emet's new
BFF...he had a great time with Jeremiah and I think Jeremiah enjoyed hanging out with
Emet. It was fun to watch them together. They are alike in so many ways...full of life and energy. Jeremiah was so sweet to let
Emet tag along with him all week!
My sweet girl with her face painted at Community Fun Night
No training wheels!!!
So proud of my girl!
My sweet boy
Fishing
Love this
We had a great day fishing. It was fun and relaxing to hang out by the river. The kids got fishing poles when we went to a church planter's picnic last weekend. We were able to use this on our "family day" down by the river last week. The kids loved it!
What a blessing my sweet friend Katie has been to me. We met soon after we moved to Boston last summer. I loved getting to know Katie and her sweet kids. We even were able to share in the joys of being pregnant together. She moved to Texas today and I am sad to see her go. Her hubby is in the military and was assigned to San Antonio, Texas. I'm thankful for her friendship and will treasure the memories we made over the past year!
