This summer our church has adopted a Season of Service. Throughout the community several other churches have banned together to serve the communities in Whatcom County...Today volunteers from Cornwall Church went to Nooksack Middle and High schools....and painted the rooms and the hallways. What a joy! Teachers, CEOs, yoga instructors, mom and dads with their kids, professional painters, electricians, funeral directors, secretaries, McDonald's workers, Highway Patrolmen, and many more walks and ways of lives banned together to impact the county. If my calculations are even a little right....between the High School and the Middle School...A little over 300 volunteers X 6 hours of work X (I figured $10.00-pretty sure that is not union wages!) = a little over $17,000 that the school doesn't have to spend...& that is not counting all of the paint and the supplies!
Yes, there was the obvious result of painting the school, which will in turn save money for the district, which could save programs....that's one of the reasons. But the big reason...to be the light of Christ at the school. As teachers, students and parents realize what was done for the school, maybe they may want to find out more about these people who invaded their school. The people who came one day and transformed their school.
The church who paid for the paint and painted everything. Maybe they will want to visit the church where all of these people say they are from. And when they come...they will hear that Jesus loves them. That this same Jesus died for them and desires to have a personal relationship with Him. And maybe...because a group of people from Cornwall Church who gave up a Saturday to paint their school....maybe they will come to know Jesus in a personal way...and that is why this was such an amazing project. The gift is not the painting...the gift is JESUS!
And for us...it was fun. We met new people and worked closely with them. Our Saturday...what a blast to work for a King!!!!
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