Glad They Were There

7 days ago my church held an amazing community outreach event - the first annual Cartersville EGGDROP. It created quite a buzz around town because of the great success of the event...and the chaos of the event. In case you didn't hear - an estimated 5,000 people showed up. The church only planned for maybe 2,000. Overall, the day was perfect. Great weather, smiling kids, WONDERFUL volunteers, lots of eggs, live music,....the list goes on. The mishap was a miscommunication with the pilot of the helicopter - resulting in eggs being dumped on people (most people are laughing now). Also, 200 volunteers and limited security trying to manage over 5,000 people was crazy ridiculous.

The point of bringing up this "old story" (amazing how news becomes old quickly) is to shine a light on Oak Leaf's volunteers. During the drop, quite a few kids became separated from their parents. I was near the main stage, which quickly became "ground zero" for reconnecting kids with parents. As I think back to what seemed chaotic at the time, I realize just how GREAT all these crazy people in yellow shirts were. Nobody panicked (at least not on the outside too much). Everyone focused on securing kids and keeping everyone calm. They continued to do what they had been doing for hours - whatever was needed. They continued to serve.

I told Dana later that evening, "Thank goodness it was Oak Leaf's volunteers there during that time." What a tremendous job they did....doing eggactly what needed to be done. (I just had to work in my corny "eggactly".)

Bottom line: I'M GLAD THEY WERE THERE.