“All is a gift. When one can see the gift of each person, then our view of the world is completely transformed.” Kimberly A. Clouse

Today we had four home repair sites running a the same time, lots of PV hammering! We continued working at the flooring site and the painting and siding site in Hanover. The latter being rained out right after lunch. We also continued our work at The Way youth center, helping to hopefully get the place up and running as soon as possible. The fourth site of the day was a new site, but one that we will be working on for quite awhile. We worked for a couple in Hanover would had been flooded out several times, but who have recently had their home raised eight feet to prevent further damage.

Tonight for dinner we had breakfast for dinner, pancakes, eggs, sausage and bacon. With the wonderful assistance of the cook, the dinner was done early! Nothing like breakfast in the evening.

Reflection centered on the image of the bufflehead duck, submerging under water for long periods of time and then popping up again in unexpected places, similar to God in many ways. We went around the room and shared where we saw God today and this week.

“Give without remembering and receive without forgetting.” Author Unknown

Mondays, new group, new adventures… As our group has got bigger, we have quite a few sites going on at the same time. Today we had five different sites. We had one group that had a lot of driving as they went to Pineville to meet a truck of food for the Itmann Food Bank, then drove the food to Mullens unload the food, load up some boxes for St.Vincent DePaul, back in Pineville and then back to the school.

We also had a group who finished up the plumbing work at the house in Pineville. They refilled the massive holes that were dug, mixed and laid new concrete, refastened the shelves that had been removed and reorganized and straightened up the basement. It looks great! Afterward the group went next door to visit a little while with our neighbor and landlord.

A group also headed out to Mullens to work on the inside of “The Way”, a youth center that will be opening up in the old Big Lots building. This site will be an ongoing site throughout the summer. When finished, “The Way”, will be a tremendous resource for the youth in the county,

Back closer to “home” were our two more traditional home repair sites. At one site the work consisted of taking up floors were damaged in recent flooding and replacing the flooring with new plywood. At the other site the crew replaced some soffits and fascia boards, along with scraping and painting the trailer.

Back at home in the evening we were treated to a Mediterranean feast. A vegetable mix with meat over rice, served with homemade pitas. For dessert we were treated to a delicious fruit pizza.

Later in the evening we gathered to reflect on gratitude. We have so much to be grateful and we were reminded that sometimes even things that are difficult end up being things we are grateful for.

“Give without remembering and receive without forgetting.” Author Unknown

Mondays, new group, new adventures… As our group has got bigger, we have quite a few sites going on at the same time. Today we had five different sites. We had one group that had a lot of driving as they went to Pineville to meet a truck of food for the Itmann Food Bank, then drove the food to Mullens unload the food, load up some boxes for St.Vincent DePaul, back in Pineville and then back to the school.

We also had a group who finished up the plumbing work at the house in Pineville. They refilled the massive holes that were dug, mixed and laid new concrete, refastened the shelves that had been removed and reorganized and straightened up the basement. It looks great! Afterward the group went next door to visit a little while with our neighbor and landlord.

A group also headed out to Mullens to work on the inside of “The Way”, a youth center that will be opening up in the old Big Lots building. This site will be an ongoing site throughout the summer. When finished, “The Way”, will be a tremendous resource for the youth in the county,

Back closer to “home” were our two more traditional home repair sites. At one site the work consisted of taking up floors were damaged in recent flooding and replacing the flooring with new plywood. At the other site the crew replaced some soffits and fascia boards, along with scraping and painting the trailer.

Back at home in the evening we were treated to a Mediterranean feast. A vegetable mix with meat over rice, served with homemade pitas. For dessert we were treated to a delicious fruit pizza.

Later in the evening we gathered to reflect on gratitude. We have so much to be grateful and we were reminded that sometimes even things that are difficult end up being things we are grateful for.

“Give without remembering and receive without forgetting.” Author Unknown

Mondays, new group, new adventures… As our group has got bigger, we have quite a few sites going on at the same time. Today we had five different sites. We had one group that had a lot of driving as they went to Pineville to meet a truck of food for the Itmann Food Bank, then drove the food to Mullens unload the food, load up some boxes for St.Vincent DePaul, back in Pineville and then back to the school.

We also had a group who finished up the plumbing work at the house in Pineville. They refilled the massive holes that were dug, mixed and laid new concrete, refastened the shelves that had been removed and reorganized and straightened up the basement. It looks great! Afterward the group went next door to visit a little while with our neighbor and landlord.

A group also headed out to Mullens to work on the inside of “The Way”, a youth center that will be opening up in the old Big Lots building. This site will be an ongoing site throughout the summer. When finished, “The Way”, will be a tremendous resource for the youth in the county,

Back closer to “home” were our two more traditional home repair sites. At one site the work consisted of taking up floors were damaged in recent flooding and replacing the flooring with new plywood. At the other site the crew replaced some soffits and fascia boards, along with scraping and painting the trailer.

Back at home in the evening we were treated to a Mediterranean feast. A vegetable mix with meat over rice, served with homemade pitas. For dessert we were treated to a delicious fruit pizza.

Later in the evening we gathered to reflect on gratitude. We have so much to be grateful and we were reminded that sometimes even things that are difficult end up being things we are grateful for.

Just as we started out to Pineville for Mass in the morning, the skies opened up and we drove in a torrential downpour the half an hour to church. But it seems while we were in Mass the rain passed and it turned into a beautiful day.

For Community Day we decided to make the short drive up to RD Bailey Lake/Damn Visitor Center. Our two summer longs led the group in some rather hilarious and entertaining icebreaker games. All I can say is bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny…

We had our traditional Sunday night cookout of hamburgers and veggie burgers, yummy. After dinner was finished, we took some time with the newly arrived volunteers to go over some of policies and to catch them up to speed on some of the new changes with the new school.

The evening wrapped up with a nice Commissioning service and the volunteers signing up for job sites for tomorrow. We are looking forward to another great week.

Just as we started out to Pineville for Mass in the morning, the skies opened up and we drove in a torrential downpour the half an hour to church. But it seems while we were in Mass the rain passed and it turned into a beautiful day.

For Community Day we decided to make the short drive up to RD Bailey Lake/Damn Visitor Center. Our two summer longs led the group in some rather hilarious and entertaining icebreaker games. All I can say is bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny…

We had our traditional Sunday night cookout of hamburgers and veggie burgers, yummy. After dinner was finished, we took some time with the newly arrived volunteers to go over some of policies and to catch them up to speed on some of the new changes with the new school.

The evening wrapped up with a nice Commissioning service and the volunteers signing up for job sites for tomorrow. We are looking forward to another great week.

Just as we started out to Pineville for Mass in the morning, the skies opened up and we drove in a torrential downpour the half an hour to church. But it seems while we were in Mass the rain passed and it turned into a beautiful day.

For Community Day we decided to make the short drive up to RD Bailey Lake/Damn Visitor Center. Our two summer longs led the group in some rather hilarious and entertaining icebreaker games. All I can say is bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny, bunny…

We had our traditional Sunday night cookout of hamburgers and veggie burgers, yummy. After dinner was finished, we took some time with the newly arrived volunteers to go over some of policies and to catch them up to speed on some of the new changes with the new school.

The evening wrapped up with a nice Commissioning service and the volunteers signing up for job sites for tomorrow. We are looking forward to another great week.