Spaghetti Supper and Concert

In an effort to let Melfort know what we are doing we held a Spaghetti Dinner and Concert. It was an amazing success raising about $3000 for Simple Steps!!! The night featured a celebrity cook - Steve Bohan, who was the chef of the sauce. What a great sauce it was, with cream cheese, cottage cheese, sausage and hamburger! We had a disclaimer for heart patients displayed at the event. Friends, Tracey and Seth MacNaughton who are expert food service coordinators jumped into the deep end and pulled it all together. What an amazing couple! They are humble servants and serve their God with a beautiful attitude.
Ray Sargent, pastor of the Apostolic Church of Melfort and radio show host of "Sunday Side Up" on CJVR was our MC and was excellent at keeping the night moving and informative! Its so great to see our churches in Melfort moving toward each other.
Scott Orr (scottorrmusic.com) came to sing and everyone was incredibly impressed and greatly entertained as he sang the song he wrote for me called "Dreamer," and then ended his set with "King (Queen) of the Road." From crying to laughing, his set had the audience's heart the whole time. Scott was only able to be part of this dinner because Tim & Corina flew him out on their AirMiles. Their thoughtful generousity was ... words become so small and cheap when your heart is so full of gratefulness.
Then I got to say something about the walk, and becoming people who live a simple life so we can share what we have been given.
Trevor Baker (trevorbaker.com) took the stage and had some encouraging and challenging words to introduce his songs.
After the dinner we had lots and lots of food left over, so it was decided that we would have a lunch after church and take donations. Ray invited everyone to join us at Park Ave at 12:30 pm to have some more spaghetti. We also auctioned off 5 cakes of various sizes that Deanna Unruh decorated so beautifully. They went for a crazy amounts from $250.00 for one cake to $55.00. The whole lunch brought in another $1000.00! I was speechless again.
The generousity, hard work and support that our church, Park Avenue Bible Church has shown Simple Steps is unbelieveable! They are my home team and I am counting on them for prayer support the whole way.
I didn't mention all the volunteers who came out to do the prep work for the sauce, or every one who helped in the kitchen, or carried, or purchased supplies, or prayed for success...
I didn't mention that Amie & Jon, Elijah and Grace came all the way from Plenty, SK to be at the dinner. It felt so nice to have them there - it was an important night for the walk.
This was going to be a short blog. But, here you are - I am humbled, and wish to walk as your servant, for His glory and will and that your investment (whether that is money or time or prayers) will be fulfilled and grow into what God blessed it to become.