Reflections from the amazing
Pasadena team J
What a neat experience A-Z!
Ellie, God has given you a
great gift and you use it to the fullest.
Our goal is to make a difference in life for our Lord. I know we had that chance. God has opened the door for us to make a difference. We had the opportunity to help. Now it is up to us to carry through.
At Skid Row, it was neat to see the eyes of children as we opened packages of socks and underwear.
I would recommend a follow-up visit next year.
The Rose Bowl game was great. Couldn’t have had a better seat! Wrong team won, that’s okay. J
Jena Nahnsen
Working on the Rose Bowl
parade float was an amazing experience, especially since I could spend it with
such a fun group of people. Seeing the
whole process of the making of the floats and watching them go together was
phenomenal! Some jobs were interesting
and a pain at times, but they were worth it in the end. At one point, I worked on the head of a T-Rex
and it was a pain but was totally worth it because that float won an
award! Seeing the final product go down
the parade route was indescribable. It’s
awesome being able to say I worked on that float! God gave us the ability to help and it’s a
great, fun way to witness and be a servant of God.
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This trip meant a lot to me in
so many ways. I am glad I got to experience this with my grandma and uncle. The
best part was making new friends with the group. We were all family for a week.
Working with people on the floats was very fun, getting to know them, and how
their faith is in Jesus Christ. Jesus is in our lives as we go from day to day.
The scenery was one of God's gifts to us to experience.
My faith has strengthened from
being on this trip. I believe strongly that Jesus died for our sins, and
forgives us. Everything happens for a reason, with God's will. The memories
from this trip will last a lifetime. If you believe in Jesus your life will be
awesome! :)
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This has been an amazing trip
for my family. We have not taken many family vacations but this is one my
three girls will never forget. I am so glad that we were able to do this
together as a family and with the extended family of everyone on this
trip. We have shared so many stories and many, many more laughs.
Life is so busy that we don’t take time to slow down and enjoy it. We all
need to do more of it. We truly have so many “things”, but somehow seem
to think that we need more and more. I hope and pray that each of us will
look for other ways locally that we can help the needy and homeless. I
was fortunate many years ago to be one of the many people that toured the floats
before the parade, but still had no idea of everything that goes into making
the floats. Every day was a totally new and different adventure as we
were given new floats to work on and various different tasks from gluing or
cutting or placing flowers. It was so exciting at the end when all of our
hard work was further beautified by the addition of all of the fresh
flowers. The flowers so drastically changed the way the floats
looked. We were all so blessed to have been able to work on several
floats. How proud we all were of our specific parts of each float as it
went by us during the parade! I was especially proud to have helped with
the Lutheran Hour float. What a great way to get God’s message of eternal
life in front of so many people! Words cannot express the fun that we all
had on this trip. My group, the ‘Red Light Runners’, shared so many
laughs during our daily road trips. Never a dull moment!
A special “thanks” needs to go
to Ellie for all of her hard work in organizing these wonderful adventures and
thanks also to each of you for making this trip so memorable.
In Christ, Lynn Heetland
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