last weekend, we got to be a part of an incredible city-wide service day, joining with 30,000 other folks from some 40 churches in ministering to needs in and around dallas. caravans of yellow school buses ferried us to communities to serve, to give, to be hands and feet. coincidentally, out of dozens of buses we just happened to hop on the same one as j^3: jason, james, john. our team got involved with central dallas ministries, helping out with their thrift store, clinic and day care -- painting, landscaping, and planting a garden. funny story: john had to go, like badly, and went to the restroom @ church's chicken next door, nearly getting left behind. we were so tempted to stop vouching for his absence since the leader was pretty convinced he might have hopped on another bus. further details about what happened @ church's would be TMI. :D ask him.
at the end of the day, though, we are reminded that servanthood is not an every now and then deal but one that we are called to as an outflow of His love for us. we are grateful for the external focus team at wm that continually offers us mediums and opportunities to serve.
saturday, the day before, was somewhat of a bizarre day. we had signed up to run the white rock n' roll 10 mile w/ our "kenyan ken." :) then last week, yuee suffered his second ultimate injury of the season: rolled ankle. we still decided to go -- y would bike, g would run. we woke up to dark skies and sheets of rain... but ken convinced us it might be worth a try. we got there just barely in time... 10 miles and a post-race party later, results came in. turned out yuee got mistakenly placed 3rd overall - his tag scanned even though he biked AROUND the sensors. we quickly notified officials which bumped ken to finishing 4th overall and 1st in his age group. g was misrepresented as male (on paper) but then once changed, found out she placed 2nd in her age group: her first race award ever. and a surprising one, not having trained after a quarter. we wound down @ the white rock festival afterwards (race bibs got us in for free) -- too much excitement/drama for the aging!
