Saturday kicked off the 5th annual Sharefest weekend. Sharefest was started by Calvary Bible as a way to reach out to the community by cleaning schools, non-profit facilities, and community areas, and now, this past weekend the event has grown to 35 churches participating! This was the 2nd Sharefest Noah and I worked. Last year we were at an elementary school in Lafayette painting endless hallways. This year we spent the day outside at Boulder Reservoir (tough job, but someone had to do it).

The weather could not have been any nicer on Saturday! It was in the low 80s, a nice breeze and plenty of entertainment by watching sky divers land near the lake! I was placed in a weed eradication group and Noah ended up with a paintbrush in his hand. The church didn’t organize a lunch for us at the Res, so what did we do? Bar-B-Que of course! We really were spoiled, and yes, I did wear sunscreen this weekend. 🙂 I think us weeders had a harder time than the painters (you should have seen the size of some of those weeds!); we formed a “union” and went on strike at about 3:00pm as we were completely spent (we started the day at 9am). The painters finished up about an hour later.

I only have 2 pictures from the event and those are of our friend Scott running a roto-tiller in a section we needed to weed. It was a blessing that one of the women in our group had the tiller, otherwise we would have taken us half the day weeding that section! Also, milk weeds have now been dubbed The Spikey Weed of Death by Scott’s wife, Meggan. If I can get more pictures from the event I will post those as well.

To wrap up the weekend, all the churches involved met together for one service at a large auditorium on the CU Boulder campus. Noah and I arrived before the rest of our group and randomly picked a row to save. Funny thing is that the row we selected was right in front of our next door neighbors! What are the chances of that in a room filling with 3500 people? To make things even better, we saw another family from down the street and they came over and sat two rows in front of us, with the group that they worked with. So even though we all go to different churches and all served in different areas on Saturday we ended up sitting near each other in the auditorium!

At the service there are representatives from the organizations we served and a slide show of photos taken from the different locations. Our group did not have a representative present nor were any pictures of us included in the presentation, but we all decided that was okay. It boded well for us that we really were the people in the background making the community a better place without receiving any accolades. Although…we did have one guy at the Res ask us where our orange jumpsuits and armed guards were…