Community Garden!

It's been an eventful weekend, as usual. New Life Covenant Church has put together a community garden about 2 blocks North of where I live. The garden is in a central place where any neighbor can come to use the space, and take part in gardening as a community.  It's one of the only green spaces in the community where kids can come to play. It's been on the church's heart for quite some time to put a playground in the open area to provide the kids with something to do and, a few weeks ago, a playground was donated.
On Saturday, we all came together (church members, neighbors, etc) to put the playground together, plant fall flowers and vegetables, and clean up the area. We had about 50 people come out to help, it was a great success! I enjoyed learning gardening techniques from Ms. Vernistine, and gave my arms a little workout shoveling bark chips for the playground!
Sunday, I walked by the playground to see about 15 kids all piled in the play equipment having a great time! I'm excited for them to finally have an area to play that isn't the middle of the street!
Sunday, after church, Katherine, Colyn, Tyler, and I went to go see Mama Liz. (I wrote about her in an earlier entry) Anyway, just as a reminder, Mama Liz is an 86 year old woman who lives down the street from us. She is the sweetest lady with a big heart! We go to see her every weekend and always leave encouraged by her sweet words of wisdom.
The past few weeks, Mama Liz has been talking about how great her life is. She tells us that she's completely satisfied even though she can't get around by herself like she used to. The only thing that Mama Liz is saddened by is the fact that she can't go to church any more.
Mama Liz has always been so great to us that we decided to do something for her in return. We decided to take the keyboard down to her house and hold a church service in her living room! We all sat together and sang and read scripture and prayed. It was a beautiful site to see Mama Liz sitting there praising God with tears of joy streaming down her face. We are hoping to continue doing this on a regular basis! It is moments like this that makes my time here in Atlanta so wonderful and worthwhile. God is so good!