Raise Up A Child....

I had great parents - not perfect ones - but nearly. :) I remember a lot of things they taught me but one of the most important was the value of and the joy in helping others. That's one of the things I hope I've passed on to my children and to their children. Last week one of our daughters brought her two youngest children (ages 11 and 12) down here to Sager Brown to spend a few days with us. It was one-on-one Mommy time for the kids. They had lots of plans for fun times...The Aquarium in New Orleans, the beach, sleeping in the camper. But they also wanted to see what we're doing here and they wanted to help. And help they did! They worked one and a half days in the depot packing health kits, and getting them into boxes that they put together. They were lucky that the week they were here was a "Food For Families" week. Catholic Charities works with the United Methodist Committee on Relief to hand out some basic food supplies to folks who need them. The Kids were able to be a part of that by giving out the cheese. They met all the people coming in, heard those wonderful cajun dialects, and ran errands for the other volunteers.


Sydney is watching each person sign the register and checking to see how many boxes they get.

She and her mother worked a table together and had a wonderful time!

Can you tell she's having fun? Look at that beautiful smile!

Blake is watching who's coming - trying to see who needs help.

The gentleman here is using a walker and is picking up food for several others who couldn't come. So Blake found a box, put all the cheese in it, and then put it on the seat of the walker so the man could wheel it out! The rest of the food is loaded directly into their cars by other volunteers.

I was so proud of the kids and I think they were proud of themselves.

Proverbs 22:6 says "raise up a child in the way he should go and he when he is old he will not depart from it." Here at Sager Brown we have kids from about 9 or 10 coming to help. We have people in their eighties and even their nineties coming to help. When people ask me what the world is coming to I just point to Sager Brown and other places like it. The lesson my parents taught me is alive and well.