Mission Stay Day 2

This week.. August 2nd – 7th I will be on a Mission Stay. What is a Mission Stay? Instead of going somewhere, we are helping in our own community. Here are my photos of the day. for August 2nd..

We broke off into groups and did a photography scavenger hunt. Instead of taking the item, we

took photos of stuff. Here are the kids imitating a “Dip” sign.

We call this Blue Beard.

Yes.. they are dancing..

Praying Manis.. I found on Ottawa University’s wall. This was HUGE.. about 6″ long.

Photographers.. taking photos of each other.. cool? or not cool?

I think this is such a cool photo. Not only are the sunglasses and hat cool..

but the 2 sets hands are pretty cool too.

Mission Stay.. Day 1 in Pictures

This week.. August 2nd – 7th I will be on a Mission Stay. What is a Mission Stay? Instead of going somewhere, we are helping in our own community. Here are my photos of the day. for August 2nd..

I believe he is in deep thought.. or he’s Dr. Evil from Austin Powers.

Who can make their lips go this far apart?

They were so proud of themselves because they figured out this ottoman has a flip-out table.

Doing a little yoga while we see if a rich man.. can still hold onto his stuff…

Jumping…

Enjoying a snack… what kind you ask? This kind..

How cute are these girls? Pretty darn cute if you ask me…

Tamale Fundraiser = Success / Photo Taking = Failure

I was a bit nervous.. I have done some insane things before..

Planned a 2 day Literature Festival with 16 authors and illustrators, Homeschooled obnoxious unruly children, told my husband I wanted 8 children.. drove across the country to follow a man oops.. make that a boy.

But I have never attempted to make dinner for 200 people.

I had lots of help. The entire youth group from our church and the Christian Education team helped… but I was a ball of nerves.

I showed up a bit late to church with 400 tamales, sour cream, 10lbs of taco meat, 5lbs of cheese, 8 tomatoes diced and 3 crock pots. I had planed on being there around 9:45AM.. but I didn’t get there until 10:00AM. I don’t know what I was thinking! I had to get all the tamales heated up and the rice, beans, taco meat etc.. heated!

We plugged the of the stuff in to heat it up.. and we blew a fuse or SOMETHING… none of the plugs worked on the entire wall. We ended up plugging stuff in on the other side of the room and once church was over, moving it to the "Right" side of the room.

Even with all the strange problems, I am happy to report the fundraiser was a success. The Tamales, were heated and the taco bar was hot & cold in the right spots.

Because of all this stuff.. I forgot to take a SINGLE PHOTO! There should be photos of my documented day.. oh well.. there’s always next year. 😉

The Great Tamale Roll of 2009


It was a fun.. weird day. Today was the Tamale Roll for tomorrow’s 1st annual Tamale Fundraiser for the Youth Mission Stay. I haven’t blogged about the Mission Stay.. (just wait until August 2nd- 7th) But here’s an overview.

Instead of going somewhere for a Mission Trip the Middle School and High School youth groups are going on a Mission Stay. We are “staying” here where we live, and serving our community for a week.

We met at a friends house to rolled the tamales. We made Chicken and Beef. Here’s what we did… in photos of course!

Here’s the shredded beef, with the masa and corn husks.

Here’s the shredded grilled chicken, masa and corn husks.

The girls are really serious about rolling their chicken tamales.

The beef rollers seem serious.. but they really were not.

Maybe it was the paper flowers in the middle…

Here’s the Beef.. all steamed and ready to go..

Chicken.. ready to do their job… feeding the tired, poor masses yearning to eat some tamales.

Rolling the Tamales.. makes the girls tired…

** For those of you wanting the recipe for some Tamales.. I will try to post it tomorrow in the “cooking” section.