Across generations

Our man Moses and Dick Dyk, a long-time volunteer at Cary Christian Center who makes the trip all the way from South Dakota every year to spend several months in Cary and help out, joined efforts today to get the soil ready for planting the community garden on the Center's grounds.

There's probably 60 years difference in their ages — and a fairly noticeable difference in their raking styles — but I found it very moving, watching them work the soil together, preparing it for future growth.

Little-known fact

Tilling can be fun! (That's Oge at the tiller: Who says aerating soil has to be dull?)

Sometimes it's all about getting down to work

. . . and sometimes it's about getting down.

Audrey and McKenzie mixing it up after devotions with Carl at the piano.

McKenzie and Sarah run Anna and Cathy through the dance they'll be teaching the kids.

And the whole house is rockin'!

After it was discovered that both she and Cathy were drum majors in high school, Star,
who works with Carl at The Village (the Center's on-site educational branch),
shows she's still got the moves.

Anna and Heepke get into it, too, dancing along with McKenzie and Sarah.

Toto, I've a feeling . . .

we're not in Ohio any more. Had to make a quick trip to the Sunflower grocery in Rolling Fork to pick up snack stuff for the after-school crowd, and just look! A WHOLE SECTION, just for grits!

A different kind of "homework"

Michele helps with the new floor.

Leigh and Genesis take a break to give the camera a smile.

Worksite supervisors Barb and Ken, standing next to the Center's handy tool shop on wheels.

Under the tutelage of Barb and Ken, volunteers from Michigan who have been volunteering at Cary Christian Center for many years, Team Witt painted the interior of a house, laid tile, and did a variety of other home repair tasks for a very grateful homeowner named Sandra.

the real Breakfast of Champions

Exhibit A: Isaiah Twitty (a.k.a. Twitty) student at Northwestern College and all-round athlete extraordinaire, about to dive into a bowl of the good stuff.

The best part of the day

Reflection time. That hour or so at the end of each day when we gather (in the girls' dorm — so that the larger Northwestern group can have the great room out front) to talk about we have experienced, each of us sharing a high and a low from our day. Lots of laughter, some tears, much gratitude for the opportunity to be here — and for this wacky and wonderful community to share it with.