Since I am I still waiting to land that killer design job, I agreed to tag along with the Janine Mallardi to Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Tuesday afternoons. Janine has a lot of energy and motivation, which seems to wear me out by the end of the day, but I do enjoy hanging out with her! She has been DCE at Prince of Peace for almost three years, and she is married to a third year seminary student (Rocco), so she has a lot of good stories (and wisdom) to share!
The trip up to the church is a solid 40 minutes, so the boys and I rode up with Janine and her 11 month old, "baby" Caleb. The boys kicked back in their car seats to watch "Harold and the Purple Crayon," while Janine and I gabbed like little old church ladies ;) Once we arrived at the church, Janine set up a barricade to keep the babies out of trouble and I tackled some craft project assembly while Janine prepped for a 3:00 meeting.
As the clock struck three, we began our meeting for the second session of the Kidz Klub program which I volunteered to help out with on Tuesdays. The Kidz Klub is a group of about 11 ladies and the pastor who volunteer from 3:30-5:30 every Tuesday to provide crafts, music and a bible lesson to local K-6th graders after school. I was assigned to work with "Megs" leading the K-1st graders group, which includes learning lines for a "Passion Play" which we will present in April. Hmmm...we'll see how that goes ;)
Luckily, our little ones slept during most of today's meeting and "big" Caleb sat on my lap and quietly drew pictures around all the blank areas of my lesson materials. The meeting wasn’t too intense, and it was good to get to know some of my fellow church ladies, but after the final clean up and wrangling the kids back into the car, I was incredibly exhausted!
So, we finally headed home (on yet a different route than any of the three previous trips to POP with Janine), and she introduced us to the most inexpensive Chinese take-out in Fort Wayne! I think we were all pretty hungry, but you would've thought Caleb hadn't eaten in a WEEK the way he devoured that sweet'n sour chicken!
It was a good end to a good day.
I'm glad you are are getting acquainted and getting involved. Sometimes its hard to get acquainted in new place but it sounds you are doing very well. God Bless you!
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese foods sounds really good too.
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