Who turned out the lights?

Yesterday was our regular kids club/mealtime day and while we are standing in the kitchen preparing things for our middle school kids and talking about the weeks ahead the lights go out! We stop and look at each other but don't think that much about it. You know, we thought they would just pop back on in a few minutes or so. Well, it got to be like 10 minutes to 4PM and we started to worry that maybe they weren't going to come back on. It was weird, I felt like we were in the Twilight Zone. We sent one of the middle school girls up to the office to ask about the power. When she came back they had told her that the whole complex had no power and they were "working on it." Well, by this time everyone was outside because it is pretty dark inside the apartment. We were forced to cancel kids club and mealtime this week for safety reasons and the kids were pretty upset about it. We were too. But we told them we would give them a snack and that perked them up quickly. They basically mobbed us for those snacks! I hope the power came back on for them before the sun went down.

One of our faithful volunteers commented that everyone was coming to our apartment because it did seem that a lot of people/kids were hanging out by our breeze way. Then that same volunteer said "it's because we are the light." It's so true isn't it. The power had went out and it was dark inside our apartment but there was still a light shining from our apartment, the light of Jesus! It's the best kind!