A New Year, a New Staff
Hi everyone! It's now 2009! And there is a new staff on board at the SEND House! I would like to briefly introduce us and give a quick run-down of our first month! :-D
Aaron Biscup -- Maintenance
Brittany Nisley -- Community Outreach Coordinator
Cassandra Yoder -- Intercessor
Wendy Orozco -- Food Service Administrator
Kayla Novak -- Hostess (this is me)
We moved into the house on the 4th of the month (January). We jumped right into Vineyard Leadership Institute (on Tuesday nights with mentoring classes on Saturday mornings). Our second weekend at the house was very busy! We had an "Intensive" for VLI and a group (Columbus Network of Micro-churches) at our house for a retreat. For me, it was very stressful, and I was very overwhelmed! But God is so good to us. HE made everything work wonderfully. So far, our community outreaches have been Manna Cafe (Wendy even organized a very successful meal there the FIRST Wednesday we were here! I'm so proud of her! Plus the chili was DELICIOUS!), Open Shelter, and Blackburn. Manna Cafe and Open Shelter are both "soup kitchens". A meal is served, but they are two entirely different feels. Blackburn is the Community/Recreation Center in our neighborhood. We're excited to see how God plans to use these things!
Last night (Monday the 26th), we started Perspectives. I am actually fairly nervous about having both Perspectives and VLI at the same time. I hope it's not too much school work. We are about to find out how it goes.
Well. I think that's all for now! Thanks for reading. Please keep us in your prayers. Especially pray that we will be effective and stay focused on God all year long!
Peace and Love!