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I hope you are all doing well!!!

Enjoy!
 

This video was made by Kent Factora.

Scott ALWAYS loved on my kids.  Brian and I have explained to Chance that we won’t be seeing Uncle Scott around anymore because he’s hanging out with Jesus now.  Chance said, “Can Jesus send Uncle Scott back to play cars with me?”  I said, “Not for awhile… but someday soon, we can go play cars with Uncle Scott AND Jesus.”  Chance:  ”But I like Uncle Scott.”  Me: “I know, honey… everyone likes Uncle Scott.”

Not only did Scott leave a lasting affect on his friends… but he left an amazing lasting impression on our kids.

I’m so glad Janet sent this.   Paxton won’t ever get to know Scott in this life, but he’ll have this picture to know Scott loved him too.

We miss you, Scotty!

1. We would like some idea of how many ARE baking cookies for the Memorial Service.  Please contact Janet Fraser if you are doing this.
2. We need help folding programs Friday at 1pm at Sunset.  We’ll need middle school age or older for this project.  Also contact Janet for this.  CANCEL THIS.  The printer is going to take care of all of this.
3. We need someone awesomely creative to think through some kind of scrapbook thing for the memorial service. We’ll need someone to provide a signature book for people attending and then would love to have paper people could write memories on, which would eventually end up in a scrapbook for the family. If you’re up for this… contact me.  Let’s chat.  DONE!!!

You guys have been and CONTINUE to be amazing in all of this.  

Thank you SO much.

We’re still getting the hang of all this and updating our process as we go along.

William asked me to post this:

Good Morning Everyone,

My apologies if this email runs a little long.
I have been delightfully overwhelmed by the responses to Jenni Clayville’s website call for volunteers to assist the Resnick family with their household projects. I believe I’ve gotten close to 30 responses-and they keep coming. As I keep getting response after response, my thinking and my strategy have changed about the best way to organize this project. Bear with me, I’ll explain and then I’m going to ask you to respond to a few questions.

As responses kept coming in, I was first struck by the depth of the sympathy and compassion for Holly and the kids. It is also obvious the Scott was a man who loved the Lord and who was loved himself by many. In the email responses I kept receiving, I noticed that all of you volunteers had a wide pool of talents – one that begged to be inventoried.

I also had this realization. The depth of the pain that I, we all, felt this past week for Holly, Kiel, Reilly, Ireland and Kelton’s loss – well, in a big church like Sunset or the community around us- every week, someone is going through the same pain, the same loss, and the same need for help. I wondered if there was a way to form this into something larger than what we originally envisioned. Keep that in mind going forward. You’ll see some questions below asking if you’d be willing to take this to a larger level.

So back to our project at hand:
What caused me to rethink my original concept of “self-organizing” this project was the realization that we had to take into account the family’s need for privacy. The worst thing in the world would be a constant parade of individuals taking the initiative and calling Holly to coordinate projects. So, after talking with Aaron Soule, we’re approaching it this way: We’re going to choose a weekend day, get Holly and the family out of the house for the day and sweep through and knock out as many pre-identified projects as we can. We’ll still be doing the yard work regularly and still do handyman projects when they pop up.

Skill Inventory
I’d like to take and keep an inventory of your skills. Please take a moment and fill out the questions below. Yes, you’ve already given me some of them, but please take a moment and resend this information in the format below.
· Reply to this email
· Go into the cells below
· Then, complete the skill inventory
· If you have trouble doing that with your email program, I’ve included a spreadsheet that you should be able to open, save and then send back to me.

I’m working on this project always mindful of two things:
· That this is a marathon, not a sprint. Holly and her family will need this help after the initial outpouring is over and receding into memory.
· I don’t want to over communicate, over email, and overwhelm you volunteers – and burn you out. If I’m going to err, I’m going to err on the side of not communicating to you.

Thanks again for stepping forward in Holly’s time of need – God Bless,  

Please email to William with “Resnick Household Projects” in the subject line and he will send you the Skills Inventory Form.

Ok… 

Ready… Set… GO!

You can participate in contributing financially to the Resnick Family at any and all US Banks.

This brought me to tears.  I asked him if I could share it with all of you, and he said, “Absolutely!”  Here is a great example of the hope I was writing about yesterday.

I hope when you read this, you will feel as blessed as I did when I read it:

Jenni,

I just wanted to pass you a note that I just sent to Holly.  I felt as though there was a need to at least pass this onto a couple of people…although I can’t even fully put into words what I felt yesterday.

Holly,

I went to Daylon Harrington’s memorial yesterday.  You should know what an amazing family they have.  I got to meet Daylon’s family for the first time then.  I was absolutely amazed by the strength of God that radiated from them.  Gary Harrington, (Daylon’s father), is the most amazing man.  Daylon is so much a son of him.  At first site of Gary, I felt like the very presence of God was so full in him.  He laughed, he joked, but most importantly, what he cared about so deeply and passionately, was seeing the huge works of God being played out only through the death of his son.  He presented almost an excitement, that was unimaginable, and screamed out joy for what God has done and will do as a result.  Daylon is, like I said, almost an exact copy of his Dad.  From the short time I had met him, Daylon IS that same glimmer of God.

He gave me a loving hug, which I know, really was for you.

In so many ways, I sat there, seeing Daylon’s so incredibly long and fullfilling 25 year life, and seeing the similarities between Scott and Daylon.  If I hadn’t known better, I would say these two men are brothers.  They share the same passion and zest for life; although, more importantly, they share an example of Christ’s life.  As the Pastor reminded, Christ also had what seemed a short life, yet he managed to save the world in that amount of time.

I can’t explain fully what I felt yesterday, but I know it was God, and I know he is already beginning to do wondrous things.

I really hope you will be able to meet the Harringtons someday soon!  One cannot help but be filled with God’s presence in the arms of this family.

I’m not sure why, but I thought I needed to tell you about what a wonderful celebration it was yesterday.  There was lots of sadness, yet an overwhelming sense of celebration.

I love you very much, I love your kids very much, and God loves you even more.  I will pray for you, but even more I will be praying that God uses this, and uses this to the full.  I will pray, expecting fully that NOW the world can be changed.

Love,
James

God Bless you all!

I see HOPE in my family and friends.  I see it in perfect strangers reaching out to one another, forming a community of purpose.  I see it in the hundreds of emails, facebook notes, blog comments pouring in… all wanting to help Holly in some way.  I see it in Erin and how’s she’s dropped EVERYTHING to be there for Holly.  I see it in Janet and how’s she’s dropped everthing to be there for Erin.  I see it in Holly when she holds her children, smiles at them and whispers love in their ear… past her own grief.

I see hope.

Most recently… I’ve seen it from Chris Marshall.  He’s written a song that was never intended to be released.  But since Scott’s tragic accident, a new path has been made.  

READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE!!!

100% of the proceeds go to Holly and her family.

What a creative way to use his gifts and talents to help Holly.

Know that I am passing on your notes/emails to her. 

Brian played basketball with Reilly and Ireland all morning, while Chance played with Kiel and Kelton.  

Alli and I went to help organize Holly’s downstairs closet so she… well… more her current house guests, could easily navigate around in there, as well as have more storage space.  It also gave us… well… more me, a good excuse to finally get in there and exercise my OCD skills.  Holly knows I’ve been just WAITING to get my hands on that closet for years.  In normal circumstances, she would NEVER have let me touch that closet… but since we didn’t ask her permission… all’s well that ends well.  Or something like that.

I will not post “before” pictures, but here are some afters of Allison and my handiwork.

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We did this just in time for Kelton’s Birthday party today.  Erin said she found the streamers for decorating quite easily.  SCORE!!!  Seriously, that just about made my day.

After Alli’s eye surgery… I’m thinking we should start a business doing this together.  Special thanks to Brian & Kiel for going to Target to get that large plastic storage unit and the little blue containers on the shelf.  As Chance would sing:  ”What’s gonna work… TEAM WORK!”

Holly did come down for a bit to give us some snuggles.  She’s so amazingly strong, and I know it’s because of everyone’s unceasing prayers.

Please keep praying… this is not so much a sprint, but a marathon.

I hate running… 

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