Michigan—The rain came down all day and the wind blew all night on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, threatening the Bible Labs outing planned for the following day at Dorothy Metzger's house. The plan was to take the Niles Adventist School students from Pre-K through second grade out to collect black walnuts from Metzger's two walnut groves. But God knew exactly what He was doing! By Wednesday morning, the wind had blown down essentially all the walnuts, and the grass was dry. The weather was calm and very comfortable for working outdoors.

Twenty-one students, Denise Kidder, Jenni Coffen (substituting for Amanda Boothby, Pre-K and Kindergarten teacher) and her son Christopher Coffen, Metzger, Anita Rogers, Darrel le Roux (pastor) worked for two hours, covering both groves, to collect an overflowing trailer full of black walnuts. The children worked feverishly collecting the walnuts like they were on a treasure hunt, exclaiming, "Here's a walnut," and "I found the motherload."

The walnuts were sold to a farmer who uses the outer husks/pods as fertilizer, then bags and ships the walnuts in their shells to a company who processes them for human consumption. The collection amounted to 327 pounds of walnuts (after the outer husk was removed). The money made will be used to send Bible textbooks to a school in the Marshall Islands.

Kristine Horvath, Bible Labs coordinator, Niles Adventist School