We went to the combined church service tonight and learned about a really cool Activity Center in East St. Louis, IL. It is called the Christian Activity Center and wow, they do so much for the very poor children living on very dangerous streets. They are set up right in the middle of these rough neighborhoods and provide a place all day and most of the evening/night for the children of E. St Louis to come and DO. They have activities, tutoring, meals, health and nutrition education... and they just keep a ton of kids off of the street and safe. It was really cool to hear Chet talk about this place that just... loves on children and protects them from the rough streets they live in. So, if you want to check out the website, there are a few ways to get involved from short term mission projects to donating money to send a child to camp in the summer. I hope to go visit at some point. The children there are so beautiful and precious.
Stellan is very ill again and in the hospital. He has been riding out today with a heart rate pretty much hanging around 230 beats per minute. Please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
People at our church are cool... that is a freebie ;) I just had a good day hanging out with a lot of really neat people.
Tomorrow we play softball (7 &9... I play at 9... if you are interested, at Dodds) and I will get weird looks for keeping the kids out until 10. But Super Muscles loves it! And babies can sleep anywhere so its all good.
That's all I got.
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Our church does a lot of mission projects with the CAC. That is so cool that your church went there, too!
We didn't go there but there are some short term trips planned soon. Chet actually came to the combined (associational I think) church service tonight to talk about it. Some of the stories he told were amazing!
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