Kim, Darryl, and I, together with Grant from MCC East Coast, did two events this morning. The first with about 100 senior citizens, all volunteering at the amazingly creative Material Resources Center, recycling shoes, clothes ... well, nearly everything they seem to get. I told some stories about MCC's work in Nepal, Uganda, Akron, w the theme that "showing up" is what we all need from each other, and people living with AIDs, in every country of the world, are begging us to show up with them ... and there are many ways we can do that. Prayer. Funding for Income Generation and Support Groups, Medical supplies, advocacy work ... and giving them a voice that often they don't have. Yesterday, by the way, we did a coffee house at Eastern Mennonite with a small group of students organized by SPEAK. The purpose of SPEAK is based on Proverbs 31 ... to give a voice to people who have no voice. And that is what MCC is doing for people who have AIDS. Kim and Darryl, contributing to the broader work of MCC with AIDS, with more than 8 years of singing/touring, are giving a voice to many who are not heard, anywhere. Not even, perhaps, by their own friends and families.
The second event was with MCC staff at the Meeting Place. Similar format .. the rich music of Kim and Darryl and some stories about the work of MCC ... "showing up". In this case I included Colombia and the SEED Program, where partners/churches have been so grateful to MCC Volunteers for "living among them".
One of Kim's fans, a 5-year old boy, was there this morning ... and with his mother, approached Kim, asking her and Darryl to sing "When the rain comes down. Very cool.
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