A Day at the Garden...A Day at the Park

Saturday we had two teams working hard for Social Ministries. A group of folks were at the Orchard House laboring hard on the garden...

...and Carmen Winiarski and I spent most of the day at the Earth Day Festival in War Memorial Park, Martinsburg promoting the different projects of Social Ministries.

Skip Reader, team member of The Orchard Project, donated two huge piles of composted manure. Michael spread what he could over the garden with a tractor lent to us by Wes Dilly. The crew at the Orchard House spent most of Saturday morning shoveling up more of the composted manure to put over the garden.

We are continuously amazed at the commitment to help out with the garden. Skip's family and Ray are always right there to help, and Richard took two days in a row to lend his hands. Michael and I are so encouraged by the great support from everyone involved.

Over at the park, Carmen and I shared information and help raise funds for The Orchard Project.

For the In Sight project we displayed a painting done by Kirby Lewis on Mountaintop Removal and encouraged people to raise their voice to stop Mountaintop removal in West Virginia...amazingly enough there was another group, CARE North Mountain, who were just doing the same thing. North Mountain is in danger of being mined and the same thing that has happened to mountains in southern West Virginia can happen to ours.

We also had two empty canvases that the community could paint on. The themes were Broken Earth and Earth Renewed.

We were amazed at the artistic contributions from all ages!

Each person expressed things that harm the earth and things that help it.

Cars and hearts...

...flowers and tears were just a few of the things painted.

It was an incredible day!