Here is the update on the job sites from some of the youth. You can tell by their writing that they are having fun and are getting a bit loopy as well. :-) We had a great day overall. Our youth did an amazing job this morning leading the whole camp in devotions. The group decided to sing "Come Thou Fount" and "Light the Fire" It was great to be able to just be "in the crowd" and have the youth lead. They came up with the whole devotion on their own. Hank did a fantastic job imitating his Dad by giving the message!
Tomorrow is the last work day! We will not finish all the jobs, but the youth have worked very hard this week. Unfortunately, the weather has not been on our side this week.
Karen and Brian’s
Group
We worked.
Hard. Really Hard. Like we were amazing. We put up two sections of siding and
had a great, fun, and bonding experience. We didn’t see the homeowners, but
hopefully we sent out a wave of passion and self-love. We turned the experience
into one where great bonds were built by singing country music as we worked. I love Alex!
We just decided her new nickname is merp. Merp Merp Merpity Merp Merp Merp. Kevin accidently cut the homeowners telephone
wire but he was forgiven because that is what good Christians do. We got a lot done and we are beyond excited
to get as much work done as possible tomorrow.
We’ve had a ton of fun so far and we hope to reach our goals of getting
the front of the house done.
Kim and Tony’s Group
We are almost done with the windows.
We made some great progress today, until something
unexpected happened. The daughter of the lady we were working for was in a
severe car accident. Someone hit her head on while driving on the highway. Her
children were staying at their grandmother’s house (the lady we were working
for.) The children were upset to the point of crying. We comforted and wept
with them like Romans 12:15 says to do. But the response of the lady we working
for was particularly inspiring. Her faith and trust were among the strongest
we’ve ever seen. She was obviously upset but had complete trust that God would
pull her through. She kept saying that everything would be all right and that
it was in God’s hands. She even said if her daughter died that it would be ok because
she knew her daughter would be with God. This woman has been through so much.
She has lost her husband, lost her leg two years ago in a car accident with her
own son, and now is going through this. A lot of people would take this and
question God saying “Why me?” But she looks at it as even more reason to trust
God. She says that when we go through tragedy, it’s all part of God’s plan,
that it might have happened so someone else could know Jesus. She asks who else
is there to pull us through it besides God?
Liz and Randy’s Group
Today we started putting up the siding, the weather wasn’t
so nice but we dealt with it because we wanted to get our house done for our homeowner.
We have been working on the house for almost a week and it has been very fun.
Our homeowner Eric is a very nice man even though we don’t see him much. He has
the cutest little dog named Duck; he is so cute. I didn’t think we were going
to get done with the house in just 4 days but its really starting to come
along. I think God put our group together on purpose because we all work well
together and we still are ready every morning to go to Eric’s house. Today our
group was ready and came prepared a long day of work (we had bandanas on with
our names on them and we had put on some war paint under our eyes to make us
look tough). I really hope that our group leave a huge impact on Eric’s life.
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