MDO daughter was expressing how frustrated she was with a project she had worked on. Her team had done many wonderful things over the last 10 months. They had worked in New Orleans with energy efficiency and mold remediation. She had helped at a science camp and worked with a reforestation project . Her last project involved a community garden where her team had worked with kids, written a curriculum and helped to build a chicken coop. This is however no ordinary chicken coop. In true Seattle style an architect was hired to design it. It is multi level with the top section being ten feet high -she figured the equivalent of a 50 foot ceiling for us mere humans. The chickens eat only the finest organic feed. The coop cost over $5,000.00. She was sarcastic when she commented, "I am out saving the world, one chicken at a time." While she was discouraged with the project and disgusted at the cost, the coop will benefit the community garden.
In a nearby city live missionaries that we support. Their homeless ministry was shut down and the neighborhood community garden they had started is under threat. The quote is an excerpt from a recent letter we recieved from them. Maybe they could get a grant to build a chicken coop instead.
"the city had shut down our homeless ministry and that the only way we could start it back up was to have our property rezoned and receive some very expensive permits. The irony of this is that as we were shutting the homeless ministry down, Portland’s mayor was calling on churches to help the city meet the needs of the growing homeless population."
