Christ the King Lutheran Church Youth

Building relationships exercise.

This morning we got to help out around our partner church, Crown Hill Church. We cleaned the window wells, and scrubbed old chairs. The church is going to be as clean as we are in Christ!

In the afternoon we did some yard work around Crown Hill Church.

Serving breakfast at New Horizons

Serving lunch with sloppy joes!!! Was a hit!!! Doesn’t get any better serving when “Joe” puts a smile and a cheer of 5 stars with each plate!

Musical tongs

Today we got to work at Sound Foundations, helping build tiny homes for transitional housing. These then get placed into tiny homes communities with all the other amenities. People can stay for free as long as they are working towards getting permanent housing.

We have had so many awesome ministry moments this week and the Lord has moved so much! It is so special that we have had such sweet time to fellowship and embrace child like joy!

Wow! The Lord knew exactly who needed to come and recieve more of Him at Epic Life's Giving Room food bank. We had incredible opportunities to pray for people, get to know them and their stories while passing out food. Epic Life's food ministry is so special because they provide individuals with a menu and then let them shop for what food they want. This intentional process dignifies the individual.

Today we hit the ground running with some more landscaping and cleaning up at Crown Hill church. We weedded flower beds, picked up trash, and trimmed back some shrubs. It is such a blessing to get to bless the church that has been partnering with us this week!

It was a complete kitchen takeover at New Horizons, we got to prepare lunch today for the residents. New horizons is a young adult shelter for people experiencing homelessness. They have amazing staff and volunteers that help them get back on their feet and into a jome. Ee cooked oven baked chicken, corn, rice, amd rice crispy treats. We had so mich fun cooking and getting to know the residents!

This morning we are making a hearty meal of biscuits smothered in sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, and assorted fruit. The biscuits and gravy were a HUGE success!! 5 stars all around.

A beautiful morning at Marra Farm. An urban city Farm, that supplies produce to families in the southwest part of Seattle. Produce is harvested in the morning and by the end of the day families have good food to eat. We harvested carrots and cilantro, and did a bit of weeding.

For lunch at new horizons we made tater to hot dish, a Miranda special!

We got to serve at North Bend's food bank in the mountain valley all day. We met so many incredible people from the community and that regularly volunteer. We got to fill familes food requests like they were shopping for the food off the shelves.

Our building and leveling skills were definitely put to the test the food bank needed help building shelves for the food bank. Everyone served so effectively that we got them built in know time. It was such a blessing to see the completed project, but also to get to know the food bank volunteers.

Crown Hill hosts a community wide block party every 2 weeks of the summer and this week we got to join them. We played with the church's kids and got to fellowship with Crown Hill and the community. God was at work in so many of those conversations!

This morning we got another ministry in before we head back to Minnesota. At Marra Farms we got to harvest all kinds of herbs and veggies, wash them, and pick weeds. All the produce goes to a local food bank.

This was our last morning of serving New Horizons. We had such intentional time with the residents and Mr. Rodney this morning. We had so much fun making breakfast buritos and they were a huge hit. Some of us even scrambled eggs for the first time! New Horizons Ministries will forever hold a place in our hearts and our prayers.