I’ll be working with special-needs children in Grundy County this week through the “Kaleidoscope” ministry of Mountain T.O.P.’s Adults In Ministry (AIM) camp. I don’t have a laptop and won’t have net access — even though Camp Cumberland Pines, where we’ll be working during the day, now has a wireless hot spot!
Also in camp will be Andy and Edna Lee Borders from the same church I attend, as well as Linda Powell, who was a member of my church at the time she signed up but who has since moved to Smyrna to take a new job. The four of us are going to meet for lunch at Cracker Barrel in Manchester before heading on up to the mountain. This is my first time to take others from FUMC to Mountain T.O.P., and I’m really looking forward to it.
Linda and I will be among the Kaleidoscope staff, while Andy and Edna Lee are participating in the home repair ministry.
At Kaleidoscope, I’ll be assisting in an arts-and-crafts workshop. Kaleidoscope volunteers also do a lot just working and hanging out with the kids in general. “Special needs” can mean anything from severe disabilities to ADHD. We’ve even had gifted children.
Please keep us all in prayer. I will have photos and stories on Saturday — although it may be late Saturday, because we will have a Mountain T.O.P. board meeting after camp breaks up, and then as soon as I get home it will be time to celebrate the birthdays of my two oldest nieces. (No, they’re not twins. Their birthdays just happen to fall during the same week.)
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