YW Broadcast: We S.E.E.K. After These Things

The Worldwide Youth Theme for 2011 is the 13th Article of Faith.  For the YW Broadcast at the end of March, we chose to coin the phrase "We S.E.E.K. After These Things" and make it our own.

The whole night was service oriented and S.E.E.K. became an acronym for "Serving Everyone Everywhere with Kindness".  I somehow drew the short straw when divvying up assignments for the night and got to do the decor for the event!!  I've never considered myself talented at cool "frou frou", but aren't callings all about stretching us beyond what we think we can do?!

I am pretty proud of my young woman "seeking" kindness! 

And Shawna's mother in law pitched in to make our ginormous banner.

Because we were putting together church hygiene kits I went with "serving everyone worldwide" as inspiration for the decor.  Lucky for me our presidency rocks and everyone pitched in to make my decoration ideas actually work!     

I made setting up into a family affair.  Jackson didn't seem to mind putting up a few Chinese lanterns!

Each table had a heart bouquet and pictures of children in 3rd world countries...I was hoping it might help the young women see where there hygiene kits could go and how needed they were. It was sooo hard finding pictures that weren't too depressing! In fact, I admit I shed a couple of tears looking for pictures of children online in such pitiful conditions!
Before we assembled hygeine kits we showed a clip from the LDS video about Sierra Leone refugee Mariama Kallon and how she literally used every aspect of her church issued hygiene kit.
If you ever have a chance to listen to her speak or check out that video it is well worth your time!! Here is a link to a summary of her story.
http://www.ldsphilanthropies.org/humanitarian-services/news-features/hygiene-kit-helped-african.html



Assembling hygiene kits.



Gisa, Lindsay, Abby, Kayla, Kiersten, Grace and Sarah-just a few cuties from my home ward!

                                             

Emma and Janet



So we had 2 service projects that evening.  Before we served everyone dinner, we divided up and helped create pages for Quiet Books to donate to a local Women's Shelter.



Emily Melton, Terri Turner, Pres. Shawna Taylor and Me!

In retrospect we should have taken a picture of ourselves at the beginning of the night before we'd run ourselves ragged and been on our feet for 5 hours! Ah well-at least I took a picture right!?  We'd planned for about 60 people and over 100 showed!!  We were enthralled as we hurried and set up more tables for dinner, but were a little worried the food might not stretch. We literally witnessed a miracle of the loaves as the bread just seemed to multiply and we even had some left over!  Neat night and neat broadcast.  That is also definitely worth seeing if you missed it as well!
http://lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2011/04?lang=eng