X-Tending Hands

Pulling weeds

Trimming hedges

Cutting down trees

Pulling out tree stumps

Moving buckets and buckets and buckets of sand

Planting a flower garden

Using 12 bags of mulch

And after five hours of manual labor

We were able to minister to some people in Orlando 

With the little talents we are blessed with.

     At Harvest, our Student Leadership Team has been thriving and looking for MULTIPLE ways to get connected into our community. Whether it be Winter Garden, Windermere, Ocoee, Pine Hills, or even Orlando as a whole, one of our visions has a team is to minister in what little ways we can.

     One major thing that we're trying to do these days is to somehow find some kind of ministry or outreach to do, twice a month. Whether that be feeding the homeless, volunteering at a shelter, painting an apartment, etc., our main objective is to show the people of Orlando the love that God has for His children. So for our first project, we partnered with an organization called X-Tending Hands.

     Today's project was to go to a house over in Pine Hills and to do perform simple acts of kindness by cleaning up their yard. The house shelters women who are homeless, sick, etc. The house serves as a place of refuge and hopefully, hope for the residents there. Today's project included all that was stated above, along with many, many more. 

So these are SOME of the tasks that we did.

I honestly can say that I am so proud to be a part of this team. 

It was hot, it was hard, it was difficult,

And yet, not one complaint came from anybody.

Although it can't be seen too clearly, 

we planted a small flower bed type thing to sort of, beautify the entrance. 

Although it also cannot be seen too clearly here either, 

overall, the whole land itself was much more clean and much more... 'presentable.'

AWESOME JOB SLT!

So here are two pictures of the whole crew that helped out (top row)

Along with a picture of our SLT (bottom row)

This is P. Chung and Jin from OCBC (left & middle),

Along with Carl who is Luis's wing man.

Luis is a member of the men's facility located about 5 min from this facility (women's)

Luis could have done everything on his own,

better than us in fact, but I think he enjoyed the help.

Carl was Luis's wing man for everything.

Carl is also like a mini-P.Chung (right)

     Overall, the day was DEFINITELY a success. Lots of people showed up, a lot was done, and God definitely used us to minister to the people of this shelter. I cannot praise/recognize the SLT enough for ALL that they did. I am SOOOO proud to be a fellow SLT member with them. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.

*** Many props to Pastor Albert Young for taking a majority of the photos***