This week was the annual Seattle Academy Teen Challenge event at the Shelter. A fine group of eighth grade boys and girls with adult supervision came in to serve us a well balanced dinner of pasta with meatballs, a tossed salad, pears, and chocolate chip cookies for dessert. All went well. No one put Joy […]
Jesus told us to take his yoke, “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” After watching Frontline this week on channel 9 I’m not sure I’m getting […]
Volunteer thankyou’s; Thank you to Vanessa for the pan of brownies and the caramel butter pecan ice cream (we were getting so tired of vanilla, not really, keep it coming.) As every cook knows, the best compliment for cooking is the rate at which the dish disappears. Yours went quickly. If I may make a […]
“Hm, upgrades.” (extra points for movie quote id.) As I’ve said before, giving is something between the giver and God, and according to Jesus giving is best done in secret. And so I don’t pry too much about where exactly the gift came from, I’m just thankful and let the Father take care of the […]
The Men’s Shelter on Phinney Ridge has technically been full for a while now. We tried to limit the number of men this year to 20. This helps maintain a quiet and relatively peaceful room in Emmanuel’s old Fellowship Hall. But the need is great this year and there are perhaps as many as 24 […]