Seriously? Nov 22nd, Entry #96.

Sara:  Last week I emailed Fr. Mitchel to ask him if he knew what happened to some of the leftover supplies from Prayer and Action this summer.  I wanted to get my hands on the t-shirts and noodles (from Noodle Ball) for the upcoming Prayer and Action Extravaganza.  He didn't know, but he emailed Jeff and Dan for me to ask them since they were on staff and in charge.

Here are the responses I got from the 2 of them:

Jeff:  I’m not sure about the shirts, and noodles, but all the supplies for the work sites are in the basement at Sacred Heart.

Seriously?  All of the tools from this SUMMER are still in the basement of the church we stayed at?  Does the church know this?  Do they want their basement space back?  We just left them there?  Seriously?

Dan: I thought that Kyle Kuckelman or Bill Scholl took the t-shirts... Noodles cost 1.99 at Wal*Mart.

Seriously?  Kyle hasn't been back to Emporia since he took his kiddos during the first week  and Bill was not on staff.  Maybe they're sitting in the basement with all the tools.

And my personal favorite:

Sara:  Yeah, but noodles are going to be a bit hard to come by in November.  So, am I to assume that you tossed all the noodles from this summer?

Dan: I'd bet a Dollar General Store would have some year round!  If not...Amazon, Amazon, Amazon.com.  See you in December.

Seriously?  You really think I'm going to to find pool toys in November at ANY store??  And yes, maybe I could find them on Amazon.com, but do you have any idea how GIANT that box would be or how much shipping would cost??  Seriously?

This is the best you two have for me?  Seriously??

200 strong. Nov 13th, Entry #95.

Sara:  200.  Count 'em, 200 FLOCKs in the past 7.5 years.  Wow.  That is alot of awesome-ness happening right there.

As we did with the 100th FLOCK that we hit, we had ourselves a birthday party to celebrate.  Miranda told me that this was kind of a big deal since none of us have ever been to a 200th birthday party.  Point well made.

My thanks go out to Jane, Miranda and Samantha for decorating the youth room for us.
More thanks go out to Jordan who decorated 3 cakes for us.  And not just normal cakes.  3 seperate cakes, each cut out and decorated as a "2", "0" and "0".  So cool.

I only took 1 picture and it was upside down.  Forgive me.

I think my favorite part of the night was when we asked the FLOCKers to share their favorite FLOCK memories with the group (sidenote: Aaron and I made this up on the spot so we could give our volunteers time to cut the cakes).  The kids got up and told some pretty funny stories from FLOCKs past and even participated in a few reenactments as well.

It was a super-fun night full of streamers and goody bags and disney music, but the whole point of the night still kind of floors me when I think about it.  200 Sunday night youth groups.  This doesn't even count the service projects, fun nights, mission trips, retreats and other cool things.  Just Sunday night FLOCK.  Wow.


100th Birthday Party Group, 2008

200th Birthday Party Group, 2011

I really do have the best job ever.