With the New Year I'd like to get back to blogging about a little bit of everything, but I'm considering switching to Blogger.  Emily did a while ago and seems to like it alot.  Any suggestions?  Does anyone even use Xanga anymore? 

Look for another post soon - either a post to direct you to a new site or a fresh launch of new posts for 2009...

Last week my mom told me that she checks my blog nearly every day and is always disappointed when it is empty.  To my favorite and perhaps only reader - here is a blog entry.

Tonight our small group had our first service project of the season.  It is always something we know we should do.  It is even something we always think of doing.  Honestly though, we rarely have any success in actually carrying the service projects out.  Normally the ideas get really complicated, forgotten, given to just a few people, or pushed aside, but not today!

Earlier this year we were reading through one of the gospels and noticed how Jesus always cared for those who were marginalized by culture.  We wanted to serve some people like that and immediately nursing home patients came to mind.  We all agreed that a nursing home would be a good idea so a few weeks later, I made a few phone calls.

Our plan was to go to the nursing home, play bingo, and then go back to the Millers for Pizza.  Well the timings didn't quite work out, and we showed up as they were all eating dinner.  So we decided to eat dinner ourselves and then go back to play bingo.  We wanted to find a place that was close, quick, and cheap.  Sam's Club came to mind...yes, we all ate dinner at Sam's. 

After a $2.50 dinner of pizza and pepsi we headed back to Lewis Christian Memorial Village and played bingo.  I sat next to George, one of my favorites.  He is a South Sider that is really alot of fun.  In the past George and I have often gone to Arby's for lunch as well.  We all played bingo and gave away gifts to those who won.  I think in the end almost every resident that played with us got a gift.  The best thing was seeing how excited some of the ladies were at the opportunity to see and hear some of the young toddlers that were with us.  In a way, it was as though some of the young life around us gave them a little bit of youth back themselves.

All in all it was a very fun night.  I'm proud and happy to be part of our small group.  They are a great group of people just trying to do life together.

Until next time...