We had so, so much help on Friday and Saturday. It was amazing. On Friday afternoon we set boxes out for parents to drop off as they picked up their children, and at 6:00 we had many, many people from the congregation and nearly cleared out all of the first floor.
Today, Saturday morning, we had more people: parents, congregation members and college students, and I would say that 95% of everything is out of the building. I asked them to leave a couple areas alone because there needs to be a little more thinking time to sort through it all.
It has been good to be so panicked and busy and exhausted, because yes, I am very sad to leave the old place. People just….. gutted the place I have spent the past 19 years of my life. I went back at the end of the day to see it. Of course I anthropomorphize everything, so I said ‘thank you’ to my old friend.