Parking Lots and Pot Holes

This past Wednesday and Thursday several Calvin volunteers gathered to prepare the parking lot for pot hole repairs.  

Enjoy the pictures and short video. 

BEFORE

Lots of potholes and water gathering 

But this group was determined to fix that. 

This is the biggest section we are fixing.  

Oh, and Pastor Ji and Ron came out to help as well : ).

The work wasn't hard, but it sure was windy out. 

Better than 46C though : ) 

Work continues on the large section. 

Took some time to get that deep enough for the coming asphalt.  

Nearing the end.  

So the big parts are done. 

 
More could be done, but this will hopefully last us for a time. 
Below is a short video of the work. 

Thanks to 
Pat

Fred

Janelle 

Pastor Ji

Pastor Ron

Ola

John 

Bill

Phil 

Chris

For helping out. 

Asphalt to come today. Whoot!!  

AFTER

The asphalt has arrived 

We used tampers to compact the asphalt. 

Now that person in the Tilly hat and blue shirt and shorts may look like me but it's really Keith D.  : )   

After the asphalt was done, we had to pick up all the debris from yesterday. 

We didn't quite have enough asphalt for today, so we will finish it off tomorrow. Pastor Ji helped out again today too. Whoot!  

Thanks to all who came back today to finish the job.  

The Big Give 2026

 Yes, It's true. 

We held another BIG GIVE Event this year at Calvin. 

We have held this event for many years now.  You can go back to other years to see those posts. 

If you wanted to know more about THE BIG GIVE, just click on this link. 

https://thebiggive.ca/

This year, the weather was iffy, so we decided to do a hybrid indoor/outdoor BIG GIVE. 

We also held a yard sale again. 

Enjoy the pics : ) 

The yard sale portion of the Big Give. Thanks Jaccinta, Josh and Joel for organizing this this year. 

People were waiting outside at 8 a.m.  : ) 

There was some confusion about the start time, but people were patient.  

The prayer station was inside this time. 

There was a craft table again. Megan headed that up with some younger folks.  

They painted Rocks.  

We had live music as well, outside.  

To start with, Leif played his guitar for us. 

Thanks Leif.  

Bike repair was done again. 

Waiting for things to begin. 

Thanks Doug, Brian and Albert for doing this again. 

Before we knew it, it was 10 a.m. and we let people in. 

Some folks came with their kids, which was perfect for rock painting : ) 

The car wash happened even though rain threatened all morning. 

The group was kept pretty busy.  

We also did the BBQ outside, under tents. 

Hot dogs and other healthy snacks : ) 

Michael and Carrie gave us more live music

The car wash continues.  

The prayer spot was busy throughout the day. 

Bikes being repaired.  

Lunch is served.  More like a brunch : ) 

We started at 10:30 a.m. this time. 

It worked out better. 

We started at 10 a.m. and concluded more or less at 12:45 p.m.  

We served about 280 hot dogs, which was GREAT.  

Thanks to all who came out to help, chat with people who came to visit, pray for people, and just be a general blessing to the community. 

Whoot  !!!! : )