Despite its busyness today felt like a day of rest.
We were blessed this morning with 27 students from Iroquois High School who came for a 9/11 service day to help us fold boxes. They worked hard all morning and assembled 2400 boxes by themselves.
We had a great group of volunteers today--probably 30-40 different persons throughout the day. And it felt like a vacation because I got to spend a lot of time sitting and talking to these friends while we labeled and folded boxes together.
Teresa and her mother-in-law drove a few hours from Brockville to partner with us today. It was great to trade stories of God's goodness in our lives.
I spent some time talking with Julie and once again rehearsing His goodness even in the midst of trials she is enduring in her life. Praying together was a special joy.
My friend Dawn Ward from OCC visited this morning and we got to take a prayer walk around the building. The evening brought another prayer walk as four of us prayed our way around again, trusted God together and anticipated His victory.
By the end of the day we'd not only made two trips with a truck to pick up many of the items stored offsite BUT we finished the day with 10,008 boxes folded! And, thanks to althea ah=mazing volunteers they were folded in under 36 hours.
The towers of boxes on the pallets are falling but we still have another 20,492 to fold.
What a great day!
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