MOSAIC PICNIC

So the last two days have been spent planning, discussion and working on Mosaic's annual July 4th picnic. This was the first time that Mosaic has put the interns in charge of the picnic.

I say without reservation, that it was a success on so many levels. Have you ever had the feeling that once you complete a big task that something great was just accomplished? (I hope you have). That was the feeling that I had late last night. The 10 of us really accomplished. What an amazing feeling.

What a long day it was. The first big task was to arrive at the park at 7:00 a.m. to secure the location for the 400 person picnic. Well, we got to park around 7:10 a.m. and our location was half taken away because of another group got there about five minutes earlier. So, there's a lesson in being on-time. With some churches/groups this might be an issue but not Mosaic. Everything was re-arranged rather easily and no problem from that.

This is were the picnic set-up got interesting, at least for me. Prior to Tuesday we had two cars break down and those were two cars the interns needed to help transport supplies. Well, instead of making one trip from Pasadena to the Dodger Stadium area (about 20 miles away one way) I made three in the morning to bring tables, chairs, tents and food. Let me tell you, the 110 Freeway got old by the third trip that morning. But everything was set-up great and, more importantly, on time!

The food was served at 12:30ish and the line of people flowed for about 90 minutes and everyone that wanted food was served just before we ran out of food. After lunch there was soccer games, volleyball matches, mini-concerts and all kinds of conversations going on. It was so cool just to watch people have fun and to be involved in the games.

Everything started breaking down around 4:30 and three trips back-and-forth between the picnic site and Pasadena. By 7:30 everything was packed away and the event was totally broken-down and the event was done. The mission was complete!