Thank You Abiding Savior!

Abiding savior servant event group

The Peace Center was blessed with the arrival of 20 eager SendMe volunteers from Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in South County (4355 Butler Hill at I-55) on October 24. Cheerful children and skilled adults were a wonderful team of workers for much of a great autumn Saturday. Among the tasks they accomplished during the visit were building sturdy storage shelves in the lower level, fixing blinds and wall board, installing a bathroom cabinet, painting doors, sills, steps, and more, trash pick-up, as well as, giving the whole Peace Center a good cleaning.

The Abiding Savior team was joined by several others who serve at the Peace Center, including one man from the Zomi fellowship (refugees from Burma who worship at the Peace Center). At the noon time lunch break SendMe volunteers joined in a Bible study on prayer and heard about the work of CFNA.

Soon after the Peace Center work was done, the SendMe team, together with CFNA leaders and five young Nepali Singers, went to Abiding Savior for a delicious dinner and worship time. More than 200 shared this dinner since the crowd included 20 more SendMe teams and their visitors. Following dinner and remarks by people from the ministries which received servant teams, the group thoroughly enjoyed the songs of the Nepal Singers. SendMe volunteers, young and older, then shared stories of their day in answer to the question, “How did you see God at work today?”

This was the 8th SendMe event at Abiding Savior Lutheran Church. In recent years, CFNA has regularly received one of the many teams of volunteers to work at the Peace Center. It has always been an enjoyable day, with lots of work accomplished and lot of fun together.

Thank you, Abiding Savior members, we appreciate your help and the love you share! As you serve at the Peace Center, you are a great blessing to us.

By: Ruth Mattson, Abiding Savior Lutheran Church