Sundays at New City are just amazing – particularly when you’re starting off a high school work week! There’s plenty of prep and orientation, but there’s also worshipping with an unusually ethnically diverse group, eating dinner at the homes of strangers (who don’t stay that way long), and heading out for the first neighborhood kids club of the week.
Our team is in the same place this year as it has been the past two – an apartment complex where many of the families are new to the ‘States. A Burmese family we spent time with has been here 11 months, and an Iraqi family – only one month. It’s fun and fascinating to seek to connect and find ways to communicate as we’re playing with kids, feeding them snow cones, and just generally having a lovely (if hot and sweaty) time!
Oh, and when we were at kids club we found a new challenge for the week: the swings from the swing set we built last year have somehow disappeared!
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