Code Kids

About a year ago I had an idea that I dubbed "Code Kids" Recently I got an e-mail from Our Community Place director Ron Copeland asking for people to volunteer in all sorts of ways:

I can think of 20 examples off the top of my head of a variety of things people with varying gifts can do to contribute to the community center: a doctor answering questions once a month, helping with secretarial work, writing thank you notes, a student doing an internship to create low impact exercise programs for people who have let their health completely slip, updating the website, helping with theater productions, helping with a newsletter, helping with Soup Kitchen, teaching pottery classes, delivering a lecture on an interesting topic, building a brick BBQ pit, developing a solar energy plan, helping with transportation needs, visiting a loney person, a massage therapist giving free shoulder rub downs, playing music during meals, developing a monthly free speech night, helping in the garden, mowing the lawn, building a deck, etc. "

I just called him and pitched him my idea. He was very receptive to the idea and said that it resonated with some of his recent thinking. He's been reading a book called "De-schooling Society" and teaching out of OCP with programs like "Code Kids" fits nicely. Currently the building is still being re-modeled so it'll have to wait until that work is done, but it sounds like a possibility.

Another interesting tid-bit... Ron knows Shane Claiborne. Apparently he's been down to OCP and the Little Grille. Ron also said that the church community that he's starting is in the vein of New Monasticism. Definitely something to keep an eye on.