Operation Sweet Tooth, Christmas Initative ’16 – The Sun Shines Today on Alexander Youth Network, through OST

  • When:12/5
  • QIC: Olive
  • The PAX: Hairball, Beaker, Dumpster Fire, Just in Time & Good Times (out of town FNGs, friends of Olive & Jager's...who will be very sore tomorrow morning), Jager (FiA), Olive (QIC)...and F3 Nation.


Operation Sweet Tooth, Christmas Initative ’16 – The Sun Shines Today on Alexander Youth Network, through OST

7 hearts posted at 1230 today to deliver 200-300 toys and various gift cards to the Alexander Youth Network (“AYN”). No COP to be found today (Read the Pre-Blast, as well as the why behind what brought us together today…and read all of it). After some slight misdirection (as well as the undoing of what YHC thought was a perfect parking job of his vehicle) we were off and running.

The Sun was shining on us today when we arrived at AYN.  More on that in a minute.

The Thang

OYO toy and hygiene supply carries – PAX unload three vehicles’ worth of toys and hygiene supplies – most that made it to the South CLT Christmas Party along with those that did not – place in the first AYN cottage on the right.  AYN informed us that they were slowing transforming their cottages into a “Santa’s Workshop” of sorts…our toys would fit right in.  While they were early in the process of transformation, the toys and gifts (not to mention the heartfelt gratitude from AYN’s President and their Chief Volunteer Coordinator) made it very Christmas-like indeed.

Fin

Moleskin

Today’s drop was the culmination of several months’ effort in terms of selecting the charity that OST wanted to support as well as coordinating the PAX efforts in donations.  Families from all over our City and State have given to AYN in support of OST and the weight of the gesture was felt by us today.

YHC had never met Olive or Jager before, but was humbled to finally meet them in person – amid the jokes about how Just in Time and Good Times had posted this morning and that they felt fine and just you wait for it in the morning – I personally felt that I had more to say but didn’t know how to say it, because what could anyone say that would be appropriate or adequate for what brought us together.  This BB could be pages long and it would still fall far short.

Olive/Jager – Your courage as parents, as volunteers, as two skyscrapers holding strong against the winds…I break into a thousand pieces at the thought of trying to begin to understand the journey you’ve gone through and how you can still stand on your two feet.  Yet, as I see Olive’s example living through Operation Sweet Tooth (his stoking the fire of Sweet Tooth’s memory to burn higher, hotter, and brighter through OST…through his encouragement of others, his strength for his Family, and his God-given resolve), I think I know what I see…and YHC believes this passage defines it:

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” – 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

Thank you, Olive & Jager, for leading all of us by your example.

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Simba
8 years ago

So thankful for this. Praying for continued comfort from the God of all comfort (2 Cor 1:3).

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