Every year we invite all the elderly from our rural community to Thiu Rancho for a special variety program of skits, creative games, song, dance, and a devotional to celebrate their lives.  Afterwards we serve them a delicious and hearty meal of roast chicken and chuno.  In addition this October (2012) the staff and the Dakotas VIM team went to a nearby rest home to help prepare the ground for a new garden and to donate a pair of guinea pigs along with a guinea pig house built by David McCaa of Brookings, SD UMC.