Love Crofton

Hello,

Reflecting on the past week we have had some amazing times serving Crofton. We had the "Love Crofton Initiative." over the course of the last week, we have had the opportunity to serve and establish a relationship with the community near camp by serving them. 

It all started two weeks ago when we blitzed the town by hanging flyers on door handles informing the residence that we were willing to do any work that they couldn't do either because of their physical state or because they didn't have time. Either way, we had an amazing turn out that resulted in 30+ homes contacting the church about jobs. 

I had the opportunity to lead two teams, both of which had their challenge and victories, the first job took place on Monday and I lead a team of four. Ashlee was very thankful for our help and told us that the job should not take more than an hour, but that was a slight miscalculation. The job actually took three and a half hours, but that was not a problem at all. In the end I had the pleasure of leading a team of six. (Two joined later upon realizing the size of the task before us) I really enjoyed having a team that was willing to take direction but at the same time offer up their own idea's and that took initiative when they found themselves without a job. It was awesome to see how our little act of kindness and servitude changed Ashlee's day, 

On Tuesday I was placed on a team of three that worked for a sweet old lady who needed her gutters cleaned. She was so happy for our service and she tried to pay us. The sparkle in her eye when we told her that we wouldn't take payment was amazing; I don't think she has ever had anyone do something like this for her. I really found this job interesting because I wasn't in the leadership spot but rather another Kaleo Student was in that position. The interesting part was seeing others leadership styles and how they do in decision making. 

On Wednesday I was again placed on a team of three for a job that did not need three people to complete the task. The other two members jumped at the opportunity to do work, and so I was left without anything to do. But another aspect of our job was to build relationships, so I had the opportunity to get to know Ron better. It was awesome to see how much he appreciated our hard work, despite us not actually having a lot of work to be done. We were done in half an hour and the rest of our time was spent talking and getting to know Ron. It was cool to see how relationships are built in such a short time and how God impacts both members so quickly. Ron was thankful and I was excited to see God's love being spread.

On Thursday I was again a leader of a team of two and our "employer" as it were, was not home. She had to work. The difficult part of this job was that we did not have proper equipment to complete the job at first. We were tasked with mowing a lawn that had not seen a mower in a few weeks at least. The mower would not turn over either. And so I was getting annoyed and upset and the fact that I couldn't complete the Job. My other member was doing a task that we had to do and I was left standing without anything to do. I called another Kaleo student that was in charge of the whole Love Crofton, and told them what was up and after a few minutes I got a better lawn mower than the one I was left with. The cool thing about the lawn mower not starting was that I saw God work through this problem. If I did not get the other mower that was better, I would not have been able to complete the job to a standard that would be honouring to God, if I completed the job at all. 

All in all the week was amazing and really I grew closer to God.  I loved it so much I would do it in a heartbeat. 

ISAIAH MOFFATT