When Alice and Joan, our Youth and Children’s Zone Coordinators, go walking together, something good is bound to happen.
On one of their walks, several months ago, they discussed the abysmal state of the furniture in the Youth Room. It was torn. It smelled. It had to go. Joan mentioned a government website that was selling high quality furniture from the Pan Am and Para-Am games and urged Alice to check it out. The thought of going on-line and competing on incoming bids gave Alice a headache. Wanting what’s best for our youth, however, she sucked it up and began keeping an eye on the sales.
Initially the site sold couches in large lots of one hundred or more.
As the weeks went by, the couches came in smaller lots. When they offered lots of twenty or ten, the other zone coordinators encouraged her to buy them all, if she had to, with the intention of selling what she didn’t need to the public. “We’re not a furniture store,” Alice replied, feeling overwhelmed by the thought. The zone coordinators gathered around her in the church lobby and prayed for her success. Alice dove in and began bidding. She successfully bought two three-seater upholstered couches.
Two couches were not enough. Joan continued to check the website. “They’re offering couches for sale again and they are vinyl couches which will really hold up”, she told Alice last week. As her husband, Jef, worked the keyboard, Alice fidgeted in the background insisting, “We have to get them. We just have to get them.” Success! They were able to buy a lot of five three-seaters. On Thursday, Len and John picked them up in Toronto in a truck rented for the occasion. They look great, and all that’s needed now in the renovated Youth Room are a new floor and baseboards.
We’re grateful to all who offered their couches to the Youth Room. But Alice envisioned matching furniture. And when you see the seven contemporary grey couches in the Youth Room, you will have to agree that she had the right idea.
On one of their walks, several months ago, they discussed the abysmal state of the furniture in the Youth Room. It was torn. It smelled. It had to go. Joan mentioned a government website that was selling high quality furniture from the Pan Am and Para-Am games and urged Alice to check it out. The thought of going on-line and competing on incoming bids gave Alice a headache. Wanting what’s best for our youth, however, she sucked it up and began keeping an eye on the sales.
Initially the site sold couches in large lots of one hundred or more.
As the weeks went by, the couches came in smaller lots. When they offered lots of twenty or ten, the other zone coordinators encouraged her to buy them all, if she had to, with the intention of selling what she didn’t need to the public. “We’re not a furniture store,” Alice replied, feeling overwhelmed by the thought. The zone coordinators gathered around her in the church lobby and prayed for her success. Alice dove in and began bidding. She successfully bought two three-seater upholstered couches.
Two couches were not enough. Joan continued to check the website. “They’re offering couches for sale again and they are vinyl couches which will really hold up”, she told Alice last week. As her husband, Jef, worked the keyboard, Alice fidgeted in the background insisting, “We have to get them. We just have to get them.” Success! They were able to buy a lot of five three-seaters. On Thursday, Len and John picked them up in Toronto in a truck rented for the occasion. They look great, and all that’s needed now in the renovated Youth Room are a new floor and baseboards.
We’re grateful to all who offered their couches to the Youth Room. But Alice envisioned matching furniture. And when you see the seven contemporary grey couches in the Youth Room, you will have to agree that she had the right idea.
- Pastor Peter
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