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My Trip to Joplin Missouri

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I don't know if I mention it.. but I'm a youth leader. In August my Youth Group is going to Joplin to serve the people there. I went down there last week to meet with our sister church and talk to them about how we can serve the community. Here's my day in pictures.

New creation Church, Joplin, MO

This is New Creation Church in Joplin Missouri.

This church serves 3 hot meals to ANYONE who walks in to the building.

They also provide shelter for over 75 people each night.

The church's pantry… where all the donated food goes.

If a family comes in and needs diapers… they have them.

Notes of thanks and encouragement.

To do list… (I love to do lists..) This one says:

  • Do Landry
  • Do intake Data
  • reset sound system in the sanctuary
  • do data entry in aid matrix
  • replace red cross cots with ours
  • pack up red cross cots to return
  • Take love boxes to our neighbors
  • double line men's cots

Someone made this cross out of rubble.

Graffiti..

Not so good graffiti.

New telephone poles.

In front of Joplin High School.

Chainsaw carvers.. check out the phone pole that was ripped in half.

Rubble..

Can you see the people on top of the houses?

It's like someone took out a wall and you can see their kitchen and family room.

Trees..

Tree.

A free clinic in front of Walgreens.

Longhorns.. They aren’t just for Texas

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huge cow, long horn, texas long horns, cows

If you didn't know.. I live in Kansas. Kansas is known for being flat and for it's beef..

Check out this fine specimen of beef. To me it almost looks like a cartoon longhorn. When he moves his head it doesn't seem real. The horns on these creatures are HUGE!

There are 2 of these that hang out in this field near my house. I hope to some day get a photo of both of them together. Maybe I can interview them like I did these cows.

I hope this guy will be more interested in me then. 😉

Who’s Afraid of a Big Bad Drill?

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When we built our house 10 years ago I picked out some pretty cool knobs for my kitchen cabinets. You might not know this.. but cabinets do not come with pre-drilled holes for knobs or pulls and we (The Man and I) have talked and talked and talked about where the knobs should go. I know many of you would say.. drill some holes for Pete's sake! But we didn't..

This woman did though..

This is my good friend Tammy. We've been friends for a while.. we've gone to eBay Live's together, hung out at auctions and she has a super cool Halloween Party every year. Check it out HERE and HERE. I also kind of wrote a blog about her HERE.

Here are my pig head knobs…

I'm not sure that I have discussed my pig collection on my blog…. but I have one and well.. it now includes my cabinets.

Here are the knobs that are on my "corner cabinets"

Do you like them?

This is the stock light fixture that was in my kitchen. I couldn't find the one I wanted 10 years ago… so we left this one up until I did. I found QUITE A FEW I liked.. but didn't want to spend the money. I even wrote a blog about it HERE.

Back in August The Man and I found a light I liked and it was on clearance for only 28.00. It wasn't the one I really wanted… but he didn't like that one. So I guess this was a cheap light that we BOTH could agree on.

It sat on the floor under the island since… well… August. Then…

Tammy hung it… (you can see some of my pigs if you look close enough) We have this little joke each time we turn on the light we say.. "and Tammy said; "Let there be light!"

Thanks Tammy! You are pretty awesome!