Hygiene and Block Parties

Last week at Streets I went to a staff meeting on Wednesday! Reggie wasn't there this time, because he was at the Wilson Society retreat that some Hutchison students went on. During our meeting we talked a lot about the hygiene seminars that are taking place this week. Each staff member is teaching a group of kids the fundamental things they should know about personal hygiene, and this is something that the children really need to learn about.

On Thursday I made the powerpoint to go along with the Bible story for the elementary block party on Friday! Sadly, I wasn't able to attend the block party because I was setting up for Spooky Duke; however, I know with Karla's hard work that it was a huge success.

I become more and more blessed every time I go to Streets to hang out with the wonderful staff they have there. I am looking forward to continue working with them for the rest of my internship and also through my Wilson society project!!

 This is me a couple weeks ago making Ready Readers folders!

Here I am at a staff meeting! These are my favorite kind of days:)

A taste of the Business side of Streets

Today I was so fortunate to sit down with Noelle, who is a graduate from Hutchison, and talk about the business side of streets. (We also spent a lot of time talking about the latest news and teachers at Hutchison, and it's fun to have the "hutch girl" bond!) I found out today that Noelle is one of the busiest women I know. She makes sure all the staff is happy, answers all of the phone calls, manages and pays all of the bills, gives out paychecks, manages the budget, calls anyone when anything needs to be fixed, keeps up with all of the keys, keeps up with emergency cash, manages all of the donations (in an extremely organized way might I add), and there were probably about twenty other jobs that she mentioned. I could never see myself being able to manage all of the math that she does, or the hundred jobs she manages, but it is amazing to see how the business side of streets runs! It was also so encouraging to hear that Streets does not receive any money from the government, and it is completely run by donations! It is such an incredible ministry, and to be so incredible it needs hard working people like Noelle to do the job.