Today, Lucia and Ryan rose early for work at Sowers Harvest Café.
The rest of us also went to Sowers Harvest about an hour later, not to work, but to dine on sumptuous fare for breakfast. Sowers’ staff lived up to their reputation of treating guests with cheerful hospitality and welcome.
From the Café, we went to Penn State’s campus. Ernest joined us at the University’s Center for Spiritual and Ethical Development. We practiced interviewing once more, heard Ernest tell stories of good, long-term relationships that began with interviews, and divvied out brochures, free pretzel and coffee tokens for Sowers Harvest, books, and Bibles.
Instead of instantly beginning interviews, Keri and Nic stayed at the spiritual center and worked with Tara, Ernest, and David to set up a meal of rice, bread, curry, cookies, and coffee that we would soon serve to students.
Faith, Korina, Travis, and Max entered the wide university to seek students to interview. Some students declined to talk, but others completed the interview and entered meaningful conversations.
We returned to the Spiritual Center near noon and joined students for lunch. We enjoyed the good conversations that proximity over food sparked.
We went back to headquarters in the middle of the afternoon to work on projects around All-Nations’ property. Some worked inside on cleaning and furniture assembly. Others worked outside on cutting the grass and spreading mulch in flower beds.
For supper, we traveled to Sowers Harvest Café and joined in an international potluck. Our American contribution was meatballs and potatoes, prepared by Sara, but other attendees graced the table with foods from their home countries. We had lots of chatter, laughter, some board games, and enjoyment while learning to know people whose languages, cultures, and foods differ from ours.
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