The Beginnings of Church Serving

Friday all of Ignite went over to our director of Ignite (mike larkin) 's house and it was a BBQ like hamburgers and pool and hottub that fits like 20 people and it has lights that changes colors...so much fun and its just well so much fun...but yeah that was friday and then on saturday.....
So Saturday Jan 24th my quad and another quad led by Lauren and Brian finally found out which church we will be serving every Sunday morning from now until we leave for our mission trip. Our church is the Lighthouse Garvanza Foursquare Church in Los Angeles, CA (http://www.thelighthouselovesyou.org). So Saturday we (the two teams- quads) went to the Lighthouse and it was their cleaning day, what they were cleaning was everything. They were re-painting the downstairs (its one large room) and fixing the ceiling tiles and then cleaning and re-organinzing the kitchen which is also downstairs in the large room i think its the youth room. and then upstairs there was vacuuming, pledging all the wood on the pews and cleaning the bathrooms. outside (even though it was raining off and on) they were cleaning and re-organizing the POD cleaning off round tables and chairs and re-stacking them inside... my quad got there around 9:40 while the other quad got there around 7:40. we were there until 3:30 so it was a long day but it was fun because then we got to know a lot of the people in the church.
Sunday morning we go as a group (the two quads) and we serve the local church which for us is the Lighthouse Garvanza and we will be serving them in any way they need from worship team to children's ministry. but this week we sat in service, which was really good too. And then after the pastors invited us and all those college age (to 30) to their house for a big Mexican BBQ.
IT WAS AMAZING the food was soo good there were beans, rice, tortillas, and carnitas that were amazing. we all sat in the living room and watched the basketball game (what is it with pastors and basketball? every pastor's house we've been too they have a b-ball game on) and then we played Shout It Out; its a game on a dvd where they play songs or show lyrics with one missing or piece together album covers and you have to SHOUT who the artist/band is before the other team does. Team #1 (my team) lost :[ but we were winning by a landslide till the last question.... sad sad sad. but it was so much fun and they pastors remind me so much of my pastors in santa barbara (love you guys).
so thats an update of the fun stuff