“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Another beautiful and busy day Wyoming County. Volunteers were spread out at five different sites, four home repair and one group went the St. Vincent DePaul to organize the warehouse and help to distribute furniture.

Volunteers returned to the site in Alpoca Bottom and continued drywalling, mudding and sanding the ceilings in the two rooms. We are getting close to finishing, but he site will go into next week.

A very small crew went to the site in Brenton to finish up the ramp. The finished project is beautiful and the home owner could not be happier.

We started two new sites today. We worked in Corrine Bottom staining a ramp that the spring break group from Northern Illinois University built in March and we began working on a roof and gutters on cabin creek road. The staining site should wrap up tomorrow, but the other site will continue into the summer.

We were nourished tonight with chili, veggies, and tomato cheese bread. Very yummy and very filling. The meal was topped of with quite the selection of desserts, most prominent of which was the Moon Pie. You long time PVs will remember a time, years ago, when this was a staple of our diet.

The evening finished up with a reflection on when we feel that Jesus was smiling and laughing a something he saw the volunteers do in West Virginia. There have been many wonderful moments over the years.