Christmas Day Caroling
I just wanted to write a few things about the KCC Christmas Day caroling activity.
Mark Gallagher, the principal of Kaimuki Christian School, was very adept at directing the 25 + volunteers who showed up at church that day in terms of labeling the donated gifts by age/gender groups. We also shared a bit before we left for the Salvation Army facility. Many people, like myself, were first-time participants. (Ann was there, also Danny and his wife Carmen, Pastor Cal, Michael, etc.) After we reached the facility on 22nd Avenue, we sat among the mothers there and sang Christmas carols together. After each song, Mark asked if anyone wanted to share any thoughts. A few of them had been homeless over the past months, so they expressed their thanks for being in a safe and cheerful environment.
In addition there were a few family members visiting that day. One man said that he had been so worried over the past year about his daughter because he and his wife did not know where she was and she had not been in contact with them. A KCC participant who I don’t know well shared that she too had been in a drug rehab program in the recent past and expressed her hope that the moms living there would benefit from the counseling there.
I hope we can do some other kind of service activity in the near future at that place, maybe in the evening. There are a total of 36 moms staying there, 24 in the intensive drug rehab program. All of them have babies or toddlers living with them. Well, that is all I wanted to say for now.
~David
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