Work Team Projects Day 4

Brad's Crew:

Yesterday we finish Carrel Moody's roof project, so we were assigned new jobs today.

We worked on projects at Camp Hope today. Erica worked with Roy's team painting the back of the church today. They had to scrape and prime the side of the kitchen and storage area. They painted the back of the storage area.

Doug, Scott and Brad were given the task of digging the trench and building the forms for the new sidewalk. The sidewalk will go from the side of the church to the front door of the new building for Camp Hope. Thank God for the soft dirt in Mississippi, the digging was easy. As I type this in it is raining very hard. Tomorrow the ditch will be a pond.

As always we had a great day and a great dinner. At devotions we had a great worship time. Pastor Dick Hurd gave the message. Many people shared their stories of the day.

God is good.

By Brad Hinman


Mort and Gary's Crew:


Today on Thursday, we truly made the Haven's place look like a house. Half of the crew worked on demolition of the remaining rooms that needed to be done while the other half worked on placing the siding on the house. During the demolition we found that kickboxing is more valuable during destruction than is a crowbar as the girls truly put the "W" in woman with their kickboxing efforts. The one boy, Sean, from the family stayed home from school today and helped tremendously with the demolition. He was very active and we couldn't have done it without him. You could tell that he was excited to know that he had people there that really appreciated his help. A few excitements of the day were that Julia is going to save a kitten, one of the many stray animals the family has and that we experienced our first Mississippi down pour. We later found out that the area we were in had tornado warnings. Thank goodness we didn't have a radio while we were there to hear the warnings because I believe many of us would've tried to high-tail it out of there. Today's efforts truly made a difference as three quarters of the house was sided and all the ceilings and walls were torn out except for a small ceiling above the hallway.




By Alyssa Putman


Paul's Crew:



Today is day four at the People’s home.(People’s being their name). The Mrs. and her son came up from Atlanta today to meet us and her caseworker. She was so excited to see how much we got done since Monday. We are just about done with the sheetrock being hung. There are few that are finishing the two bathrooms with sheetrock getting hung and a few trimming out the windows with sheetrock too. The mudders have caught up with the rockers now. Sorry there isn’t anything new to report today. Oh yeah, we did have tornado warnings this afternoon. It sprinkled where we worked today but apparently it rained a little harder at other work sites,but no tornado’s thank the Lord.


By Patti Gridley