The Noche Buena Project

With all the sale (madness, I tell you) that is happening all around us, we (that is, me, my wife, Mordsith, Pido, Kumareng Grace, Abel, and Cat, with eks planning to join this year) never got around to planning this year’s outreach project. I previously posted here how our first attempt at reaching out went. It just felt so good to bring joy to others that we planned to do it again this year, and maybe every year. It actually didn’t cost a lot than buying a 4-GB flash drive, which is only like 500 pesos, especially if you have cool friends very much willing to share their time and resources. But as I said, with all the madness, it didn’t push through.

Our church has this Candlelight Service every twenty-fourth of December that starts at 6:30 PM. After the service, which is at around 8:30 PM, some pastors and members of the congregation would go to different hospitals around the metro to bring baskets filled with real Noche Buena food. Let me say that again, REAL Noche Buena food. Not sardines and noodles, because who would want to eat that during Noche Buena, right? I’m talking about hams, heaping rice portions, cheese, and other goodies. Any member of the church can volunteer and help, from the packing to the distributing of the Noche Buena baskets. And so now, it has become a tradition, of some sort, that the church brings food to the hospitals.

As an alternative to the outreach project that didn’t push through, my wife and I volunteered to be a part of this Noche Buena project. So after the service on the twenty-fourth, you’ll be seeing me and my wife, probably along with her family, in our best shirts bringing good food to those unfortunate enough not to spend Noche Buena and Christmas in their homes. Remember this rule?