I was up and dressed early this morning. I woke Forry up and he was soon up and ready to go. We made a quick stop at the corner Mickey D's for breakfast sandwiches just before we got on the freeway. We headed west the 90 or so miles out to the Mennonite Church.
The church was full this morning. Many of the summer travelers have returned now that school has started. This gorgeous quilt was hanging in the front of the sanctuary, a reminder that the Mennonite Country Auction is just a few weekends ago on October 4th.
We took part of our year-long collection of change along, as today was the start of this year's Penny Power collection. The children will be taking buckets out through the congregation the next three Sundays to collect everyone's loose change. The Penny Power project this year is going to help rebuild houses in Indonesia following last year's typhoon. It is neat to realize that pennies are being collected all over the country in Mennonite congregations for this purpose.
In addition, we took along Son Sean's coin collection of pennies in the bottom third of a gallon zip-lock bag. He gave us strict instructions to give it to Diane. She is the first one to get Penny Power started at Menno many years ago. I think Diane got a kick out of it.
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