Feeling in the Pink?
The Lord of Love Youth Group is putting everyone “in the pink”. Lucky members of Lord of Love are finding a yard full of pink flamingos when they leave for work, arrive home from a night out, or just about any time.
The flamingos are on an adventure around Omaha helping our Youth Group raise fund for our youth program. Thru your generous support our youth will experience their own adventure in building relationships thru the high ropes course at Carol Joy Holling Camp in May. The CO-OP program at the camp gets people working through challenges together. It helps in developing trust, more effective communication, holding each other accountable, and making commitments. This will be a weekend of camping, growing in faith, fellowship, and personal growth.
If you get “pinked” here is what you need to do:
- enjoy the site of a yard full of lively, but quiet flamingos
- get your neighbors to snap a few pictures of you going to the birds
- decide who the next lucky Lord of Love member will be to host these lovely fellows
- negotiate the transportation of your fine feathered (actually they are plastic) friends to their next destination
- fondly relate your good fortune with other members at Lord of Love
So far the flamingos have been to these locations:
Doug and Cathy Aden
Doug and Rose Roberts
Tom and Beth Olson
Brad and Randi Ven Huizen
Brian and Deb Lund
Cheryl Badtke
This fun, participation activity has so far raised over $400.
Pink Facts (or Fiction)
The religious symbolic meaning of the color pink is joy and happiness.
Why are flamingos pink? Flamingos are pink because of the food they eat, which is shrimp and algae.
What does it mean to be “in the pink”? We now usually see it with the specific meaning of ‘the pink of condition’, i.e. in the best possible health. The earliest citations of ‘in the pink’ are from the 16th century and, at that time, the meaning was ‘the very pinnacle of something’, but not necessarily limited to health.
Why pink has been chosen to epitomize the pinnacle of quality is more likely to do with the Dianthus flower, many varieties of which are called Pinks. It is known that society in the reign of Elizabeth I admired the flowers, hence the first uses of pink with the ‘excellent’ meaning in that period.