Open House update

So, here is the end results for Open House. What a success! Pastor Charlie said it ran like a fine tuned machine! and it did. this is my 6Th Open House that I've been a part of, and i think my favorite. Yes, it was raining most of the day. Yes, it was cold. But the best part was it stopped raining and we had more people than what we knew to do with! we ended up serving 1,501 people for Open House. Everyone pulled together to make it work, set up extra tables in classrooms, and went to cut an extra 200 steaks. Made sure everyone was taken care of. it's really quiet incredible.
so many people gave us complements, like "I've never seen young people so polite" "i feel like royalty here, is this how it always is?" "everyone is so nice" "the homes are beautiful!" "I'm coming back next year." "What Charlie Sharpe said was right on." and on and on and on, i think i could fill up pages of it, but i won't. i only had people in my van for no more than 5 minutes at a time, but in that short period of time, i saw God's goodness in other people. i know that people saw a side of God that maybe they had never seen before. and it was amazing. I pray that lives and hearts were touched in such a way that they will never be the same again. it's so great to serve a living breathing caring God, who would want to serve any other?
Next year Open House is on the 4Th of July. we are calling it "Charlie's Holiday" we will have a flight show, a mule jump, tractor pulls, all the food you can eat, and fireworks. it's going to be absolutely amazing! can hardly wait!
Oh, yes, i saw my dad on the screen 2 times in his wonderful Army pictures, i did cry a little. just in gratitude for all of our service men and women who have fought and continue to fight for our freedom and the freedom of others.
i know this entry was kind of random, but oh well.
only 21 days until Oaxaca!