Sharefest!

Two weekends ago (June 10th and 11th) my church participated in the annual "Sharefest" of Boulder County. This is an event where several churches in the area team up and help out the Boulder Valley School District by donating free work to their school such as painting, repairing, landscaping, cleaning, etc. This year 7 churches teamed up to work on 8 schools. My church was given Boulder High School to work on. We spent the majority of our efforts painting the cafeteria and hallways, doing some landscaping work and cleaning there really cool central atrium. It was a lot of fun and also hardwork. I was the team leader for my life group and we were in charge of painting a certain corner of the cafeteria. That was done pretty quickly and my team left for other jobs and I was left to work with only Kendra. We had a good time putting the finishing touches on our corner. We are both somewhat perfectionistic and so we can spend many hours just painting one corner. I think it looked great when we were done though. After the corner was finished we had the priviledge of painting a window sill and the wall around it. I think we did a great job on that as well. We spent the rest of our saturday cleaning paint drops off of the floor.

The next morning (sunday) we showed up and were assigned to help paint the doors that enter the cafeteria. Kendra and I assisted by removing the push plates on the doors so the painters could paint under them and not have to mask them. We also masked the edges of the doors. After that we were put in charge of cleaning paint drops off of chairs that should not have been used to stand on while painting. That was not a very fun job, but we got through it by focusing on how we are blessing the school and glorifying God with our service. At around 11:15 we finished up and headed to the mackey auditorium on CU campus for a huge worship service with all 7 churches that participated in sharefest. It was awesome worshiping with that many people (the auditorium was packed) and seeing a large portion of the church body in boulder coming together in one place. It was really cool when some of the school officials got on stage and expressed their thankfulness for what had been done and tried to estimate how much money had been saved for their schools.

It is awesome when the body gets together and stands along side with the community; loving them and serving them. That is how communities can really be reached for Christ. All glory and honor is HIS!