Sand! Sand! Sand!

Okay day two in Fargo was life changing, and attitude altering. Today was one of the coolest things I have ever done. This evening we had the opportunity to go and partner in with the people of Fargo and fill sand bag. This may not seem like fun at all, and to tell you the truth it was not fun just filling the bags. Good thing that was not all that we did. They way this is setup is there is a machine that drops a certain amount of sand down a tube and you have to hold a bag up there and catch it. Then you pass it off to someone who ties the bag off. Next they stack the bags on a pallet for storage. O did I mention that the sand is coming down the tube every 7 second, pretty fast paced. So for every tube there are about 6 to 8 workers. That means there are many opportunities for us to live out part of Sojourn Fargo's plan of ministry of strategic living. I was at a table with 6 guys who all worked for the city plowing the streets and doing other maintenance to the roads. I was stationed there for 3 hours with out moving my feet once. They wanted me to help be apart of the team that caught the sand and handed it off to be tied by someone else. I met this one guy and I really got to know him. He told me all about his family. He has two boys and he is very proud of them. One is playing Babe Ruth baseball and the other one is wrestling. The wrestling is only in the first grade. This guy says that his boy is just like him at that age. Through all of our talking he told me that his boys go to after school care at the local YMCA. This was my perfect in to start sharing with him what I was really there for and that was to help Sojourn Fargo get up and running. Why you may ask? Simple, John one of the pastors of Sojourn is the director of the YMCA after school care. Just so happened that about five min. later John showed up and came over to my station and started to help us. It was really awesome. Then I the all of the guys really started to open up and we had some really good conversations about what was Kentucky really like. I was really blessed to have been able to be at the station I was at. I truly believe that God places people in places at a certain time. And there are no accidental meetings.