Everyone made it in safe and sound on Saturday, so we were ready for Sunday’s community building activities. This week we have 30 volunteers, many of whom do not know each other, so getting to know a little bit about each other before we begin the work we was crucial. Our community guru’s led us in several ice breaker games that got the group laughing and enjoying themselves.

Before dinner we gathered the newest PV’s together for an orientation to the area and the issues that effect many of the people we work with in. For dinner we had our usual Sunday night cookout with all the fixings. After dinner the whole group gathered for reorienation, as the only holdovers from last week were the staff. We closed the evening with our commissioning service.

We are looking forward to another great week ahead.

Everyone made it in safe and sound on Saturday, so we were ready for Sunday’s community building activities. This week we have 30 volunteers, many of whom do not know each other, so getting to know a little bit about each other before we begin the work we was crucial. Our community guru’s led us in several ice breaker games that got the group laughing and enjoying themselves.

Before dinner we gathered the newest PV’s together for an orientation to the area and the issues that effect many of the people we work with in. For dinner we had our usual Sunday night cookout with all the fixings. After dinner the whole group gathered for reorienation, as the only holdovers from last week were the staff. We closed the evening with our commissioning service.

We are looking forward to another great week ahead.

Everyone made it in safe and sound on Saturday, so we were ready for Sunday’s community building activities. This week we have 30 volunteers, many of whom do not know each other, so getting to know a little bit about each other before we begin the work we was crucial. Our community guru’s led us in several ice breaker games that got the group laughing and enjoying themselves.

Before dinner we gathered the newest PV’s together for an orientation to the area and the issues that effect many of the people we work with in. For dinner we had our usual Sunday night cookout with all the fixings. After dinner the whole group gathered for reorienation, as the only holdovers from last week were the staff. We closed the evening with our commissioning service.

We are looking forward to another great week ahead.

Enjoy!

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa

Fridays are home repair free days, allowing everyone to work with different agencies throughout the county. With that said, groups worked with UGWA, St. Vincent DePaul, the Way and Glen Rogers Manor. All and all a great day.

For tonight’s dinner we got to relive many of the highlights of dinner from this week along with Nancy’s Chicken (minus the chicken.) Very yummy!

The closing reflection for the first two weeks centered on the stories we have heard during our time and what stories we will share when we get home.

All in all, this week was a great week. We will be sad to say goodbye to all but our two summer longs, but look forward to welcoming in a whole new crew.

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa

Fridays are home repair free days, allowing everyone to work with different agencies throughout the county. With that said, groups worked with UGWA, St. Vincent DePaul, the Way and Glen Rogers Manor. All and all a great day.

For tonight’s dinner we got to relive many of the highlights of dinner from this week along with Nancy’s Chicken (minus the chicken.) Very yummy!

The closing reflection for the first two weeks centered on the stories we have heard during our time and what stories we will share when we get home.

All in all, this week was a great week. We will be sad to say goodbye to all but our two summer longs, but look forward to welcoming in a whole new crew.

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Mother Teresa

Fridays are home repair free days, allowing everyone to work with different agencies throughout the county. With that said, groups worked with UGWA, St. Vincent DePaul, the Way and Glen Rogers Manor. All and all a great day.

For tonight’s dinner we got to relive many of the highlights of dinner from this week along with Nancy’s Chicken (minus the chicken.) Very yummy!

The closing reflection for the first two weeks centered on the stories we have heard during our time and what stories we will share when we get home.

All in all, this week was a great week. We will be sad to say goodbye to all but our two summer longs, but look forward to welcoming in a whole new crew.

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer neglect it , as I shall not pass this way again.” William Penn

Another good, but busy day. Today we had PVs at four different home repair sites, plus on all important garbage pick up. Volunteers continued to attach a ramp to a trailer at one site, they continued tiling at another, and dry-walling at another, all in Hanover. At the fourth site in Lilydale, while waiting for the final roofing supplies, volunteers did many little but important repairs through out the two trailers that sit on the property. The garbage pick up crew was busy running around to different sites that we had worked on the first two weeks to pick up the trash we had left behind. After three trips up to the dump at the top of the mountain, they were able to call it a successful day.

As seems to be the trend this week, we had another wonderful meal. This time the meal was lasagne, salad and garlic bread and for dessert chocolate raspberry bars, yummy, yummy in the tummy tummy.

Reflection tonight focused on friendships and different types of friendships that exist. We shared a bit about the people we have met down here and how some of those relationships have evolved into friendships.