November 13th 2010 L2S Event: Decorating Seneca Street at GCH

The day began with a glorious sunrise and the warmth of the sun on our faces, I just knew that God’s presence would be among the 35 plus volunteers from the River Community Church as we descended upon Pontiac and Grace Centers for Hope for the annual Christmas decorating of Seneca Street.

Over the years, Grace Centers for Hope has diligently worked to purchase abandoned housing and convert/refurbish this housing to fill the needs of displaced families across our communities, including abused women and children. The River’s Live 2 Serve compassion team has worked with Grace Centers for Hope on various occasions and have always been humbled by the Heavenly Spirit that envelopes whatever we can do to help/serve, this occasion would be different.

The original intentions and direction given to our team were to “decorate two –to three of the Seneca Street houses”.

Once the game plan was devised and an inventory of decorations performed, we divided and conquered…..Decorating six (6) houses and the community park, all within our three (3) hour time limit! The deserved families could not believe their eyes as the came outside from their homes to find the Glory of Christmas on their streets.

Trees being decorated…..

Garland flying along the porches…..

Stars and beads spiraled around the columns…..

Wreaths up on the houses…..

Thousands of lights wrapped and displayed…..

Nativity scene placed for the park…..

And still found time to organize the storage room in the basement of the Grace Center Chapel….

All I can say as the interim lead for this event is WOW! Live 2 Serve is truly blessed to have such an incredible team, families and volunteers.

Being the hands and feet of JESUS is so much fun and I hope to see you on the next Live 2 Serve project.