food pantry and photo op Jesus...

Each class at St. Chris commits to a service project for the entire school year.  The 1st grade project is helping to stock the wonderful food pantry at the church that is run by a very dedicated "army" of parishoners.  Every year the first trip over with our collected donations is very fun for the kids because we get to visit Fr. Mike's guilty pleasure room...

We have deposited our goodies so on to the fun...

I remember when Fr. had the WHOLE room but it is now being taken over by the food pantry...which is a good thing.  What are they so curious about?

Yep...Fr. Mike is a train "nut".  

I can speak with certainty that our parish pastor has just become a whole lot " COOLER" in the eyes of these kiddos!

The "no touching" thing was such a challenge but they did good!

This was my contribution some years ago and it's good to see the old gal is still there although I noticed the miniature Mr. Potato Head is gone...guess Fr. Mike could only tolerate so much.

...and the trip is NEVER complete until we have answered this invitation.

And there we are sitting at the table with Jesus at the Last Supper (or photo op Jesus as some wisecracker teachers have named him).

I thought this was so neat...as we were leaving a few had to give Jesus those last minute pats and that makes me proud.