Sunday, May 22nd was the end to a great week that demonstrated the amazing influence that F3 can have in our community. After coordinating a snack and drink goods drive to benefit CAH that yielded over 5,000 individually wrapped snacks/drinks the activity day event on Sunday with the kids was an amazing demonstration of the pax stepping into life with these kids for a short time. The will and desire of the men of F3 to step in make an impact is counter cultural and it is a real inspiration to watch unfold! It is a privilege to have a group of men that will sharpen, encourage each other and truly put themselves 3rd.

On the day that what we thought would be a dry day and seemingly the first dry day in over a week. It turned out to be a beautiful day with a mix of sun and clouds. It turns out that an hour after the event the rain returned for one last stand. As Old Bay suggested, God blessed this event with his perfect timing and his perfect plan that was evident in every possible way!

Seventeen PAX plus a multitude of Ms and 2.0s enjoyed time with 25 kids that bussed up from CAH. Watching the caravan of bus and minivans brought goose flesh in anticipation of being able to serve these kids. All the PAX pitched together with the grill masters, Catfish and Cake Boss leading the way preparing the meal, Twister leading COP, Sir Topham Hat and White Lightening leading the balloon toss/fight, Change Order leading the relay races, Deacon leading whiffle ball and Reborn leading disc golf. All the pax chipped in to make this a special event!

The event started with a quick intro and prayer lead by Reborn. Then we moseyed to the center of the field where Twister had a shovel flag! He and Pinkalicious lead the entire pax of ~100 through a series of warm up exercises. Then the group split by age into smaller groups to do the relay races and balloon toss. In typical fashion the balloon toss quickly escalated into a water balloon fight. Then the three activities were introduced (whiffle ball, disc golf and volleyball) and the games were on and everyone went into their game of choice.

Dinner was served promptly at 5:30 with an immediate backlog on the hamburger grill. Cake Boss is not blaming his assistant Twister but there was almost a burger riot and we will Leavitt at that. Catfish was well ahead of schedule on the hot dog grill. We had enough dogs left to have our very own hot dog eating contest but there were no takers on that CSAUP event. Maybe we can incorporate with the Hog and Coyote this year.

Thank you to the men of F3 for your selflessness and eagerness to bring 3rd F to life in humility and sacrifice! I’ve never been more proud to say that I’m part of a group as I am to say that I’m a member of the F3 pax!

Aye!

For His Glory!