Clothesline

Yesterday, Anne & I spent the morning at the NStar building. It was no normal Friday, it was the weekend of Clothesline, a ministry birthed in the heart of Melanie Mooney, one of our NorthStar members. After a small first year, it has grown into a 48 foot trailer being filled top to bottom with clothes donated by NStar families. Melanie & her team (130+) volunteers sort the clothes and turn the auditorium into the most incredible shopping area you have ever seen!! Needy families are invited on Saturday to come & shop and take as much as they need. On Friday, schools bring students that are in need to shop and it is one the most touching things I have ever watched or experienced!

While we were there on Friday, a young high school came out after trying on a "Prom Dress" and modeled it for her teachers and for the ladies at Clothesline....she was so proud & happy and I was dripping tears like a leaky faucet! I was so happy for the young lady but I was also so proud of people like the Mooney family "who get" the mission of NorthStar! I had absolutely nothing to do with the dream of Clothesline or execution of it but easily over 1000 huge trash bags of clothes will leave that building this weekend and bless many lives all because of one sweet lady and the dream of her family (who are right there with her all the way!)

Every weekend we say, "We exist to show God's love in such a way....." this weekend is a picture of everything we are talking about!! Hundreds of families blessed and hundreds of people serving & giving...........I think, just maybe, this is what God wanted the church to look like!!! Way to go Melanie & NStar and way to go God!!! I will post some pics soon!