Random Acts of Randomness

Brother Ron Warpole, baptizing Martin and Ragne at
Balchyoca (Baltic-Christian-Youth-Camp)

Sometime four or five years ago Caleb became enamored with our missionary to Estonia, Ron Warpole. Caleb also knew first hand the struggles of missionaries from my Dad, my Uncle David and my brother Michael's mission work.  During that time, Caleb began doing odd jobs to raise extra money for our church's mission efforts. His brain child was recycling aluminum cans! Since that all began we have neighbors, church friends, home school friends etc., who all bring bags of aluminum cans to us. Caleb rinses all the cans and smashes them and we take them to the recycle site in Lewisville. Caleb places 100% of the money received in the collection plate on Sunday mornings. Today he delivered nine garbage bags of smashed cans or twenty-six pounds of aluminum and at $0.45 per pound that is a whooping $11.70!

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One of the really attractive things about the Church of Christ on McDermott Road is the elders desire to have 50% of our budget go towards missions! Caleb has his goal to see the congreation in Tartu one day.

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Caleb's can collection and mission donations is something I wouldn't normally add to the blog, but for other young mom's there are things our kids can do at a very young age to help in the Lord's work.  I also wanted to take a minute to say thank you to all our sweet friends that bag up cans and haul them to Caleb month after month. 
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On a side note, when I went to find a photo of Ron to add to this post, I found the one above.  It was like a special gift, notice Ragne is wearing an LTC 2011 t-shirt.  For the last two years, Jon and I have organized McDermott's Leadership Training for Christ and the LTC teams for Estonia.  Ragne has participated the last two years and Martin participated this past year.  They are names I have worked with and emailed and the first pictures I see of them is them being baptized by Ron! 

I CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13