The past couple of days have been crazy busy. Everything is going well, and I'm starting to get more of a routine figured out.
Friday: The Amazing Race
The goal was to figure out how to use the mass transit system of Cleveland. Well, my team and I figured out how NOT to use the mass transit system. Literally, we either took the wrong bus route or went the wrong direction more than we did it right. However, you can learn from mistakes, and we at least have some experience behind us now.
Saturday: Work and Outreach
Saturday morning, we all did various jobs around the Vision House. It went well, and I now know how to install blinds in a window. What I learned most: instructions are essentially useless. Just do what makes sense.
In the afternoon, we helped Dan from Gateway Church West pass out flyers for their upcoming VBS event. My group (Me, my roommate Daniel, and the pastor's son Elijah) ended up hitting around 150 houses. It was four fairly long streets, and we did it in around 2.5 hours. However, flyers are distributed differently up here: you don't knock on doors. We just placed the flyer somewhere on the house's front porch, only speaking to people who came out to greet us or were already outside. It was very efficient for such a large neighborhood, but it also highlighted cultural differences. In this neck of the woods, it's apparently generally considered rude to interrupt someone by knocking on their door to "solicit."
All in all, I'm tired but excited. Tomorrow, Daniel and I will serve at Gateway West (Short for Gateway Church West). Dan is the pastor/church planter that we'll be coordinating with, so I'm excited to get to spend some time in fellowship and worship with our brothers and sisters that we're here to help.
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