Got Soup?

I don’t know if your house is anything like mine, but I currently have no less than 40* cans of soup.  I almost always buy a can of cream of mushroom and cream of chicken when I go to the store.  Because, I mean, I hate to run out.

So thanks to my inability to check the cupboard before I leave, I have an abundance.  And this weekend that abundance comes to an end.

It’s SOUP-ER weekend.  Thats right, the weekend when I will walk into church and place my can of soup in the big brown box.  Which box?  This one:

This morning I went out to take a picture of this box, and look what I found:

SOUP-ER!  There’s Soup in there

I can’t wait to see how much SOUP we can fit in this box.  Lets fill it all the way up!

 

*maybe a slight over statement

A Soup-er Food Drive

Each month, here at Shiloh, we take up a food bank offering.  Its the first weekend of the month, and the food goes in the big wooden boxes in the Narthexes upstairs and downstairs.

Thats what we do.  We donate to the food bank.

This month, I want to take it to another level.

This month lets make someone’s fall season Soup-er.

This month we are having a canned soup drive.  

On October 1 & 2, please bring a canned soup to church.  If everyone brought one, and we had exactly the same number of people here on October 1 & 2, we would collect 372 cans of soup for the Dubois County Food Bank.  That would be SOUP-ER!  

So Lets Do this.  Mark your calendars and add SOUP to the grocery List!

Did You Know?

Here is the first in our new video series – did you know?  We are going to be taking you around Shiloh and showing you things you might not know!  (If you have an idea or would like to star in a video, we are auditioning people now!)

Have You Seen My Stapler?

Its missing.

It’s red, easy to use, and likes long walks on the beach.

If seen, please return.  The stapler is missed around here.  We have had to resort to an old Swingline.

Where o Where has my Stapler Gone?

Welcome Pot Luck Recap

Well, if you were at the potluck you are probably still stuffed like me.  If you were not, you missed out on GREAT food.

Here is a pictoral recap of the day:

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A Sweet VBS Photo

Living Jesus::That Thing 2011 Day 4

(NOTE:  I wrote this Thursday and then the internet quit in Epworth Forest.  We are home now safe and I still wanted you to read this post.)

Last night we did the obstacle course. It was a great exercise in how to work as a team, and how we are only as strong as our weakest person. We did it twice, and they cut their time in half.

After, we went to Worship, and from there, I totally lose my train of thought because my head exploded. I would love to write what I experienced, but I decided that there are parents who have been reading the blog who I really want to have that discussion with their kids. It would be unfair for me to take that away from the kids. And I don’t want to be like ‘it was so this and this’ and then the parents say ‘jen said it was this and this’ and the kids say ‘yeah…..’.

Today I had someone who wasn’t part of our group say I look tired. And it’s true my body is tired, but my soul feels so awake.

I’ll try to post tomorrow on the way home. If not, I can’t wait to share more pictures and stories with you next week.

Another poem from Christopher Norris (I think we could get him college credit for this one:

AquaRocker is still down.
Frownie faces still abound.