My plan was to head out to the church early to be there in plenty of time to greet the Food Bank’s Foodmobile. They were setting up in Seaside’s parking lot to give away food boxes to anyone who needed one. I was all ready to go. Walked out to the truck. Chris had her cardiac rehab appointment, so she had the car reserved. Aaannd … the truck wouldn’t start. Crank a few times, but the battery soon died. Just won’t hold a charge from one jump start to the next. What to do now? I called Nathan. Fortunately, he and April were both off work. I was able to borrow one of their vehicles and be on my way.
I
still beat the Foodmobile. I wasn’t the
first one in the parking lot, though.
Several families were already there waiting. They expected a line and wanted to be
first. No problem there. Kelly, the Food Bank rep/Seasider who called
to set this up, arrived and found out the truck was still ten minutes out, so
they started registering the folks who were there. And at this point I will add that it was
cold. The wind was out of the east, and
it had that bitter remnant of a north nastiness to it. I was glad I had a jacket at least.
The
truck finally arrived. It was one of those
refrigerated box trucks with the refrigeration unit un top, so it was pretty tall. Why is that important? Well, there’s a bit of a story to that. See, the driver missed the entrance from the main
street, so he turned down the side street toward our back parking area. No problem there. However, he continued moving the truck closer
and closer to the building, we suddenly realized that he had come into contact
with the overhead cables and wires attaching us to things like … oh …
electricity. Several guys ran over and
yelled for him to stop before he pulled something loose. Sadly, they were too late to rescue our wifi
cable. It was unceremoniously snapped in
two. And the electrical wires were
next. Fortunately the guys stopped him
before any of those became casualties as well.
He managed to back away carefully, freeing himself from the
entanglements. Looks like we have to
exist without wifi in our worship center until we can get reconnected. But it could have been so much worse.
The
event went really well, though. Kelly
said they didn’t expect more than two or three families at best. I couldn’t at least five that I thought might
come. As it turned out, there were ten
or fifteen families represented. Several
of the people I didn’t know, but I enjoyed meeting and chatting with them as we
waited for the truck. I think it was
considered a rousing success from the Food Bank’s perspective. They may even make it a monthly event. Happy to host something like this … as long
as our wires stay out of the way …
Luke
16:10 says, “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted
with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest
with much.”
Father,
thank you for the folks at the Food Bank.
They do a great work for the community and for you. I think you can trust them with much. Amen.
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