This year the Heart Campaign decided to rally all the volunteers they could get and go out to love on our communities all in one day. So on Saturday, September 25, more than 2,500 volunteers from over 100 different churches and community organizations joined together to serve in 15 different local communities!
We decided to help set up the expo center this year. So Jason & I and all three boys headed out to Redmond to set up chairs with all the other volunteers. We only made it about five minutes before Lucas decided that sitting in his stroller just wasn't "involved" enough for him, so Jason put him in the snuggly and he got to be in on all the action. We set up and dusted chairs, measured rows and isles, met some great new people, and visiting with some familiar ones.
The Expo Center set up before the event.
(Photo courtesy of IHCO)
And this was the result:
(Photo courtesy of IHCO)
Over 8,000 people attended to see the band Elliot perform and a special appearance by Nick Vujicic, who also set a Guinness Book world record with a total of 1, 749 hugs in 60 minutes, which I got to be part of too!
His story is amazing and so is he! I've never been so inspired by another person in my entire life! To learn more about his miraculous story or the amazing work that he does, which will just bring you to tears, visit his website at http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/
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