Hooray for Troop 205!

Hello Garden Gang!

Many thanks to Jack Webb and Boy Scout Troop 205 for hauling cinder blocks for us this weekend during their overnight campout in the garden. The troop neatened our new work area for us so we can prep for our Big Garden Build, hopefully for this Saturday, March 3rd. I've spoken with Katey Rudd, and it looks like our supplies should arrive this week. As soon as I get a green light (get it, green?) I'll holler. Actually, I'll email, but you get the idea.



As a reminder, I've got seeds and a seed planting guide from Marshall Grain for those of you who'd like to help grow seedlings. I've been in touch with Denise Cyr who will head up a seed-growing campaign with AUMC Preschool. Thanks, Denise.

Please keep praying for the garden. I read this passage last night as part of my Lent devotional, and I thought I'd share it with you:

Romans 6:5-8 "For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,that we should no longer be slaves to sin—because anyone who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him."

That word "united" means to grow in union, or to plant in union. The word describes how two plants that have been planted together and are growing together, closely entwined or even united. (Nelson Study Bible.)

Have you ever seen two plants growing so closely together that they seem as one? What a beautiful image of our union with Christ, that we would be planted so closely to the source that we would actually grow entwined, closer and closer, to our Lord. This is my prayer for each of us, with this new mission field of the garden and in our personal journeys with Jesus.

Be blessed!
Britta