Staff/Board Community Day April 22, 2013

Yesterday, 50 Orchard Hill Staff/Board Members hopped on two buses and went out into our community for the day.  The three objectives of the day:

1.  To lay the biblical foundations for the following principles of serving:  Christ-centered, relational, wholistic, development.

2.  To listen deeply and look more broadly around our community.

3.  To build our staff/Board relationships and to have a fun day together.

Here's a peek at our day together:

 We hopped on two of Dolly's party buses for our excursion. 

Travel time offered a little chance for conversation, a multi-cultural awareness survey, and taste testing fun foods from Mexico and Bosnia.

We started the morning at the River Loop Public Market in Downtown Waterloo.  

Over some pastries and coffee, Julie Kiefer spoke about the Public Market, we did a diversity exercise, and we read/discussed part of John Chapter 4...Jesus and the Samaritan at the well.  

Who do we spend our time with?  This exercise helped us examine the levels of diversity in our relationships.

Across from the Public Market is the Youth Art Team's peacock mural.  

Heidi shares the foundational principles of Youth Art Team.

Our next stop was La Cosecha Hispanic Vineyard Church in Downtown Waterloo.

At La Cosecha, we listened to pastors, Jorge and Nuriz, share about their calling and  ministry to their congregation.  

Next, we were off to the Salvation Army for lunch.  

The Salvation Army provides a community lunch five days a week.  We joined other guests for a meal together.

Faithful servants at the SA lunch line.

After lunch, we stopped by the Salvation Army's Family Activity Center and listened to Lindsey and Megan share about the after school and summer programming available for the young people of the community.

Tim B. interviews Rick, one of the chaplains at Tyson Meat Packing Plant.  Tyson's is a faith-friendly environment, and Rick shared about his ministry among employees...many of which are immigrants to our community.  

Judy M. shares with a group about the journey God has taken her and George on with relocation into the neighborhood.  

Emma shared about Christ's work in her through the loving support of Christian Community.

Stained glass window in the new Almond house dining room

The group took a "Before" tour of the home recently purchased by Mike and Laura.  They also prayed in various rooms of the house.

Brian shared with the group about the Jobs for Life ministry that he leads.  

We closed out the day with worship and closing remarks in the OHC sanctuary.  

Fuzzy joined us to lead us in worship of our great God and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.