The Impact of Serving

Hey ThreeSixty Fans!

Wow!, This week was amazingly crazy, so I postponed writing the blog until the end of the weekend.

I have watched Bullen plan for his January community service mission and each night the plans changed into God's direction. Every time the phone rang it was "OK what's next?" As we prayed asking God to use us as His hands and feet, Bullen's community service was a huge blessing to us all. More on this in a minute.

School is very busy, but we are all adjusting to life in the ThreeSixty house with responsibilities as we become one big family and sacrifice for one another. I have my first big math test coming up next week and I need your prayers.

One of the things that is very amusing in the house is our new language. It is a cross between Moru. Slang, and English? Morslangish. Learn with us: Didido (I did it though), Willya (Will you), & Didia (Did you do it) to name a few.

Back to our weekend. The Bolden family, Ms. Bolden's friend, and Ms. Kesha (kids social worker) from Choctaw County, Alabama (in the black belt) came to spend the night in the ThreeSixty house. Background: Ms. Bolden is approximately 25 years old, has 7 boys ranging in age from 5 days to 11 years. They live in a house from which they must move because of lead poisoning, they all sleep in one bed, Ms. Bolden has very little education, and the list could go on and on, but the bottom line is she is in need of HELP! If you can't add, this makes 17 people sleeping in the ThreeSixty house! It was a BLAST!

Here is the 411: This family traveled after school on Friday to Birmingham, but didn't arrive here until almost 8pm. Dinner had been prepared for hours and many volunteers were gathered anticipating their arrival. Upon arriving, no one wanted to eat the 999 pieces of fried chicken, green beans and 70 rolls because of all the excitement. LOL! Next comes the showers, pj's and the movie "UP". None of the kids were ready to settle down after having slept the whole way here, so guess who is really "UP" in the ThreeSixty house All NIGHT. The night turned to morning and everyone dressed to go to iJump! Chasing 7 boys in a packed gym full of excitement was not something I would have signed up for, but to see the joy on their faces made me so happy. Lunch was a mess and so much fun. The Caldwell's planned a "Make your own pizza party" and everyone loved it including the adults. Lastly, Bullen shared the love of Christ with the Bolden's and we packed their cars to the brim with many donations of clothing, food and baby items as they departed. I have to tell you that the worse thing about the community service mission was to see them GO. Wow God is Great!

Hope everyone has a blessed week and I am off to the races.

Blessing,
Stephen Griffin