SixtyFeet came. And then they left.

Oh, what an amazing....and at the same time un-amazing....time it was!  I was giddy all week getting ready for the guys from SixtyFeet to come.  I wore my SixtyFeet t-shirt so they could recognize me at the airport, and when I walked by Judd, he was talking on the phone and motioned to me like "You're here for me."  I was GIDDY I tell you!  I felt like my junior high celebrity crush had just given me the finger-gun-wink. ;)  I could hardly concentrate on the road as I chauffeured them around all day.  Not because of them - I barely knew who Judd and Jonathan were before that day - but because of ALL of them - everyone involved with SixtyFeet and what they do.  I.  Love.  Them.  And I had worked SO long and SO hard and had SO much frustration trying to get them here.  And now here they were!  It was fantastic!

I asked the guys if they wanted to go set up the film before or after dinner, and they emphatically, eagerly agreed that we needed to go immediately after I picked them up from the airport at 2:00.  And ohhhh, how right they were.  We got to the church about 3:00, and at 4:30 we left the pastor there by himself STILL trying to get the video to work.  We went to eat dinner, and when we got back at 6:30 he was still working on it. 

The event was supposed to start at 7:00. 

At 7:15, they finally got the video working. 

Phew!  Thank You, Jesus!

The video and the presentation were awesome.  I hadn't seen the video before, and it was so incredible to see "first hand" the huge difference SixtyFeet is making in the lives of the children in Ugandan prisons.  And Judd and Jonathan were awesome.  Truly, truly, it felt like we had known them forever, and that they were close friends we were being reunited with after not seeing each other for years.  It was amazing.  We had so much fun!  And finally being able to have them here in person and see the fruit of all my efforts was just awesome. [yes, I did use all those "awesomes" on purpose ;)]


SixtyFeet board member extraordinaire, Judd Harper. :)

Not so awesome?  Hardly anybody was there!  Y'all.  I was so. sad.  As far as I know, only one donation was made, and that was from one of my sweet friends.  And as far as I know, only two purchases of their merchandise were made - one by another of my sweet friends, and one by us.

My beautiful friends Bethany and Michelle who came to share my love. :)

And that was it.

No one asked them questions.  No one engaged them in conversation.  The audience seemed completely uninvolved and unmoved and interested only in the cupcakes at the end. :(



Because of the Cupcake Kids.



Sweet Kloe served lemonade.

And now.....well, now what?

Um, I totally don't get it.  Nine months of planning and scheduling and emailing and rescheduling and looking for a place and trying, trying, trying to give up and feeling like I really just wasn't supposed to....and why?  I told God that even if this one thing was all He had for me to do with SixtyFeet, I was so thankful.  And really, I am.  But I kind of thought there would be more.  Even if not more for me, I was so sure there would be more of a response.  More people wanting to get involved.  More...I don't know...just more that would come from it.

And maybe there has been and I just don't know it.  Maybe people went to the website and decided to get involved.  Maybe people made donations or bought merchandise online.  Maybe God planted seeds in people's hearts that will sprout sometime in the future.  I don't know.

I told one of my friends it was like having a wedding without a marriage. :)  You plan and plan and plan, and then the big day comes, and then it's over and you just go on with life.

So there you have it.  My SixtyFeet adventure in a nutshell.  I don't know if anything more will ever come of it.  I don't know what the purpose was for all of it.  I don't know if God has anything else for me to do with SixtyFeet.  I don't know if we'll ever see our long-lost friends Judd and Jonathan again. 

But I know SixtyFeet and the imprisoned children of Uganda are still in my heart.  And at this point, that's about all I know. 

The end.

Jonathan, Jacob, me, Kloe, The Mister, and Judd.