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Hungry?
That’s what we at Art: After School asked the people of Langley as we invited them to take part in our fund raiser for the Langley Food Bank.
In December we talked about “giving” at Art: After School, and our project was painting soup bowls.
I had the bowls and firing donated by Joanette and the lovely staff at Totally Ceramic, and the idea was to sell the bowls and give the money to the Food Bank. Hikmat at the Wired Monk in the Langley Municipal Building was kind enough to let us use the coffee shop to host our fund raiser, and Lipton (Wired Monk’s soup provider) donated soup for us to fill the bowls.
The kids had taken a lot of time and put a lot of effort into making their bowls look nice.
I was worried that after putting so much time into this project that a few of them may have a difficult time giving their bowl away, but they were all quite excited about helping the Food Bank. In fact, I had to schedule the fund raiser on a day that they didn’t have school because so many of them expressed interest in being there to help sell the bowls!
So Monday, February 26, we all met at the Municipal Building to sell our works of art.
I was a bit unsure of the response we were going to get and wondered if we would be able to sell all the bowls.
As I met the kids at the Wired Monk, I could feel them buzzing with excitement. A few parents and staff from the school came out as well, to show
their support. I’m often amazed and impressed by my Art: After School kids and the amount of initiative they show, always offering to help with snack, etc, and the fund raiser was no exception. They spent the whole time coming up with new ways to advertise and promote their bowls and encourage people to come and support the Food Bank. They coloured up a poster, ran around the building and invited people to come down, and even sold one bowl on the spot to a police officer! What a great bunch of students! In the end we sold all the bowls, met a bunch of new people in the community, and raise $295 for the Food Bank— quite an exciting accomplishment for these 10-12 year olds who weren’t sure what they could do that would make any difference.One Year!
The Bus in Langley celebrated its one year anniversary by hosting an open house on March 2, at Langley Meadows Community School. We set up our Youth for Christ display, had cookies and hot chocolate, tentative drafts of the remodeled new bus, and... THE NEW BUS!! This was actually the second time the new bus has been out on a Friday night, and it is far from the finished product, but it was great to have it there to show the community what we
are doing.
It was a great night of connecting with parents, donors, volunteers, and kids. I spent my evening in the cold (no heat yet!) bus hanging out with some of the kids from art club and their friends. A couple of girls who attended the Bus
regularly last year, but haven’t been around much this year (they’ve started high school) stopped in to say hi and see the new bus.It’s really quite funny to see some of the kids reactions to the new bus. They are used to the fully renovated bus that we’ve been borrowing from Abbotsford, and are generally less than excited about the not-yet remodeled new one!
We’ve been doing our best to communicate that the finished product will look much different than it does now, and slowly they are getting more excited about seeing the transformation of the double decker transit bus, into our new Langely Party Bus.
Plunge 2007
Many of you know that I was involved in the Plunge trip to Scotland 2 years ago, and the Plunge work in the Lower Mainland last year. This summer I will be heading to Scotland again, only this time I am co-leading the Canadian team! I am very excited about this opportunity, but along with it comes some added responsibility. Please pray for me as I help organize this trip, lead the team, and prepare myself to go to Scotland.
Photos from past Plunges (2005 in Scotland & 2006 in Langley)
