Our monthly community rhythm involves two community gatherings and two mission activities. One of our missions each month is called Love Your Neighbor and is intended to build relationships with people in our neighborhoods, show them love, etc. The other mission we take on each month is called Serve Your City and involves intentionally serving the least of these, including the poor, orphans, widows, etc.
We just posted about the Love Your Neighbor plan for next week. Our Serve Your City activity will be to serve dinner at the Booth House, which is run by the Salvation Army in downtown Alton. They don’t need a large number of people to help serve each night, so we can take two (or three?) consecutive nights.
What we need is to find out who can go on which night, so that we can schedule it with the Salvation Army. Could you check your family calendar and leave a comment on this post so that we know who is available the week of January 23? In your comment, just list the dates you and your family are available. Here are the options:
Monday, January 23
Tuesday, January 24
Wednesday, January 25
The Alton Mission 
Monday or Tuesday works for the Seawrights. Should one of us stay home with the kids? Should we find a sitter or bring them along? Thanks Peter!
I don’t know about having the kids there. I will talk to Mike and see what he thinks. Hopefully, there is a certain age that could still participate. If some or all of the kids can’t participate, we’ll have a couple adults watch them for everyone, just like we would for our community gatherings. No need to hire a babysitter.
Monday is really the only night that would work well for us : )
monday works best for us
Tuesday is my day off and wed i get off at 6pm. I believe we usually serve before 6 so… Tuesday might be best for the Varners. It should be ok for kids to come as long as a parent can watch them. The older ones can help serve and possibly help watch the younger ones. Say if Jen and Bobbie both come and Faith and Annie help serve one of the adults would have to supervise the older girls and another watch after Olivia. It may depend on how many are coming to serve and if we are responisble for cooking the food. Hope this helps. We’re looking forward to the outreach! Toni