First Blog

Hello and welcome to the first ever posting of The Purple Plastic Piano People.

My name is Roger. I go to Seacoast Church in Charleston SC. After attending this church for about 10 years, I've finally found my special place. I had never thought about working with kids, but one day I saw an opportunity to work with special needs kids. I started to pray and ask God if He wanted me to do it. I didn't have to ask that question. Instead I asked Him for the opportunity to make the proper contact.

Long story short, I've been working with that ministry for a few weeks now. We call it Won by One. Because our souls, our very lives have been Won by the One that loved us enough to give His life.

I called this blog Purple Plastic Piano People because I am in Toastmasters International. That is a club that promotes the art of public speaking. Every year we hold a series of speech competitions.

For the 2007 contests, I had NO idea what I was going to speak in. Then I recalled seeing one of our autistic kids, Blake P, play a purple plastic piano. I turned our CD player down and I gestured to Blake. He was playing "Joy to the World"

My speech was on the fact that we all have something that we can use to return our love to our wonderful Lord.

I'm going to try and post an audio copy of that speech sometime.

For now, this blog will be open for anyone to read and comment on. I'd like to open it up to members to post as well.

If you work at Seacoast with the Won by One ministry, if you work with the other children, if you have a special needs child or if you just want to add something POSITIVE, then please do.

Keep in mind a few rules:

1. I will NOT tolerate insults, or jokes about special needs kids or adults. If you've a funny story about something with a kid or an adult, please add it. But nothing mean. It will be deleted.

2. I am a Christian, but this doesn't mean that this has to be a Christian only site. However, I will NOT allow arguments, debates etc. about theology.

3. I am NOT a theologian. Please do not ask me questions like: "Where is Heaven?" or "Did Adam have a belly button?"

4. Have fun. This is NOT meant to insult those with special needs. But, we can all laugh at life itself.

I'll add more later

Rog.