Santa Came Early
The 51 boxes of chapel offerings from the gradeschool kids at St. Paul's Lutheran School in Des Peres, MO, mentioned in this post arrived on Wednesday, as did some additional things that were collected for a medical clinic that wound up not coming. Little did I know that in total it would amount to 3 palettes! Chris, another volunteer Jeff, and I sorted it all this afternoon...
The palettes had been stowed on the top shelf of the warehouse; Genaro helped us get them down with the forklift. A lot of other palettes had to be moved out of the way first since Orphan Grain Train ALSO came on Wednesday, so we saved him some trouble by clearing off one palette by hand. I climbed up and passed boxes down to Chris, most of which were full of Red Books for Christmas books in Spanish. Here we are with all 20 cases of them!
Hitching a ride to the office with the books on the back of the forklift (Elvira told us later that she wanted them in the warehouse instead)!
The other 2 palettes.
Post-sorting. There were some misc. boxes, but most everything fit into 4 general categories--see below.
The pile of soon-to-be Christmas presents: 2000 copies of Botas Rojas para la Navidad and LOTS of stuffed animals.
Hygiene items. I noticed lots of toothbrushes and toothpaste, which was awesome because for whatever reason we usually run low on those things.
School supplies.
Medical stuff.
The palettes had been stowed on the top shelf of the warehouse; Genaro helped us get them down with the forklift. A lot of other palettes had to be moved out of the way first since Orphan Grain Train ALSO came on Wednesday, so we saved him some trouble by clearing off one palette by hand. I climbed up and passed boxes down to Chris, most of which were full of Red Books for Christmas books in Spanish. Here we are with all 20 cases of them!
Hitching a ride to the office with the books on the back of the forklift (Elvira told us later that she wanted them in the warehouse instead)!
The other 2 palettes.
Post-sorting. There were some misc. boxes, but most everything fit into 4 general categories--see below.
The pile of soon-to-be Christmas presents: 2000 copies of Botas Rojas para la Navidad and LOTS of stuffed animals.
Hygiene items. I noticed lots of toothbrushes and toothpaste, which was awesome because for whatever reason we usually run low on those things.
School supplies.
Medical stuff.Until next time, blessings!
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