Just a quick note to say that we recycled aluminum cans at a recent camp for First Baptist Ft. Lauderdale, Florida! Even if it involved a little digging through trash to recover some lost cans, it was worth it. Tomorrow, we will recycle at an youth event at Metropolitan Baptist Church in Houston. Alumination is slowly getting around, praise God!

We had a street cleanup yesterday and it was a good one. To be honest, the roadsides of SW 5th Ave had apparently just been mowed, so there wasn’t too much trash to be picked up. Oh darn.

One very cool thing: as we walked along the road, we prayed for the people in the houses — that God would bless them and that they would know Jesus intimately and follow Him joyfully. And we prayed for the people who were walking, biking, and driving up and down the street, too.

Praise God that we could serve their physical needs and their spiritual ones as well. And when we showed joy in our work, it showed the joy that we have in Christ, even when handling people’s carelessly-thrown garbage. Cool!

Ignoring the horrible headline, we have started a new program! It’s called Alumination and it’s pretty simple: we want to encourage Christians to recycle aluminum cans. We plan to kick it off this summer for camp season. Check out our plan on the Alumination page.