Tommy and I spent our MLK Day On service at Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry, a homeless outreach agency in Midtown, Kansas City, Missouri. We joined other AmeriCorps and VISTAs from Washburn University in Topeka. Washburn does something similar to One Economy with their VISTAs where they place up to 60 VISTAs and AmeriCorps workers around the country.
We spent the morning stocking the food pantry, then attended an MLK celebration at the Kansas City Art Institute (we sang happy birthday and had cake!). MLM provided great sack lunches as well.
We returned to MLM after the celebration and during reflection time we wrote cards to homebound seniors. The later afternoon, Tommy and I split up and he went to Blessings Abound Thrift store in Overland Park and I stayed at MLM to help finish up at the food pantry. It was a great full day of service and fellowship! And Domo joined us too :-)
3 comments:
It sounds like you guys had a great time and were able to participate in a lot of different activities.
Way to go Tina and Tommy!
--Laura
Tommy also tweeted about our event but I am not sure where to find those tweets and photos.
Nice picture and glad Domo got his close-up! Here's where I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/tommydelgreco.
You can look for me in the larger MLK Day list, but it's buried with 1000s of other tweets.
Post a Comment