Today was a great day! The events for Love Esquimalt, Vic. West, View Royal took place between 10am and 2pm, with over 200 people from churches all over those cities joining to express the love of Jesus through practical acts of kindness -- no strings attached.

I was part of a team of people that handed out water at the local plaza here in town. I am not usually an outgoing person, but today I really enjoyed interacting with the people of the community. It was a great thing to be driving around the city in the latter part of the event and seeing, not only all the volunteers at work, but all the physical signs of our work spreading out throughout the community: families walking on the side streets with "Love Esq....." balloons, bottles of water, etc. You could feel how our simple acts of kindness were having a ripple effect through the community.

The evening service of celebration was one again a great event with songs, testimonials and even a video prepared from footage shot during the day to illustrate all the work that was done. It was just an awesome thing to behold.

I have finally come up with the songs for tomorrow morning:

"In His Time" Diane Ball TFWS2203
"Open the Eyes of my Heart" Paul Baloche
"You Are Mine" David Haas TFWS2218

The Paul Baloche song was sung at this evening's celebration service and I thought that since we had decided on another song for tomorrow's church service I would use it in the singing before the service.

God Bless You!