“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”  Colin Wilson

The first day of a new week always feels like a fresh start and a new beginning.  This is especially true this week with 24 people leaving and 18 people arriving on Saturday.  As the PV Goal statement said, in all endings are seeds of new beginnings….

Today’s sites were pretty much spread across the county.  We continued work up in Hanover on the flood site.  For those of you that have worked up there this summer, you may be happy (or jealous) to know that it is now air conditioned.  The heat/air pump was installed over the weekend.

We also continued on the roof in Mullens and the paint site in Jesse.  Unfortunately since it was so wet yesterday morning, all the painting that was able to be done was the indoor painting, but we look forward to sending a large crew up there tomorrow to continue the painting from Thursday.

The final two sites were the Itmann Food Bank, arranging and organizing after last week’s distribution day, and Basketball Camp in Pineville.  At the camp we were happy to see a lot of familiar faces of kids who have grown up going to the camp and have now turned into pretty good basketball players. It looks like it is going to be a good week ahead.

Dinner tonight is bake ziti (from the recipe in the PV Cookbook), salad and garlic bread.  A simple, yet satisfying meal.  Yummy!

“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”  Colin Wilson

The first day of a new week always feels like a fresh start and a new beginning.  This is especially true this week with 24 people leaving and 18 people arriving on Saturday.  As the PV Goal statement said, in all endings are seeds of new beginnings….

Today’s sites were pretty much spread across the county.  We continued work up in Hanover on the flood site.  For those of you that have worked up there this summer, you may be happy (or jealous) to know that it is now air conditioned.  The heat/air pump was installed over the weekend.

We also continued on the roof in Mullens and the paint site in Jesse.  Unfortunately since it was so wet yesterday morning, all the painting that was able to be done was the indoor painting, but we look forward to sending a large crew up there tomorrow to continue the painting from Thursday.

The final two sites were the Itmann Food Bank, arranging and organizing after last week’s distribution day, and Basketball Camp in Pineville.  At the camp we were happy to see a lot of familiar faces of kids who have grown up going to the camp and have now turned into pretty good basketball players. It looks like it is going to be a good week ahead.

Dinner tonight is bake ziti (from the recipe in the PV Cookbook), salad and garlic bread.  A simple, yet satisfying meal.  Yummy!

“The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.”  Colin Wilson

The first day of a new week always feels like a fresh start and a new beginning.  This is especially true this week with 24 people leaving and 18 people arriving on Saturday.  As the PV Goal statement said, in all endings are seeds of new beginnings….

Today’s sites were pretty much spread across the county.  We continued work up in Hanover on the flood site.  For those of you that have worked up there this summer, you may be happy (or jealous) to know that it is now air conditioned.  The heat/air pump was installed over the weekend.

We also continued on the roof in Mullens and the paint site in Jesse.  Unfortunately since it was so wet yesterday morning, all the painting that was able to be done was the indoor painting, but we look forward to sending a large crew up there tomorrow to continue the painting from Thursday.

The final two sites were the Itmann Food Bank, arranging and organizing after last week’s distribution day, and Basketball Camp in Pineville.  At the camp we were happy to see a lot of familiar faces of kids who have grown up going to the camp and have now turned into pretty good basketball players. It looks like it is going to be a good week ahead.

Dinner tonight is bake ziti (from the recipe in the PV Cookbook), salad and garlic bread.  A simple, yet satisfying meal.  Yummy!

Another wonderful PV Community Day!  We were able to spend the day getting to know each other by interviewing each other and playing a fun game of kickball.  After orientation for the new folks and reorientation for the returners, we enjoyed another wonderful cookout.

The evening was wrapped up with the PV Commissioning Service, anointing all the newly arrived, for the service that they will perform.  Job sites were assigned and then folks were able to fellowship with each other and go off to bed for a good night’s sleep.

Another wonderful PV Community Day!  We were able to spend the day getting to know each other by interviewing each other and playing a fun game of kickball.  After orientation for the new folks and reorientation for the returners, we enjoyed another wonderful cookout.

The evening was wrapped up with the PV Commissioning Service, anointing all the newly arrived, for the service that they will perform.  Job sites were assigned and then folks were able to fellowship with each other and go off to bed for a good night’s sleep.

Another wonderful PV Community Day!  We were able to spend the day getting to know each other by interviewing each other and playing a fun game of kickball.  After orientation for the new folks and reorientation for the returners, we enjoyed another wonderful cookout.

The evening was wrapped up with the PV Commissioning Service, anointing all the newly arrived, for the service that they will perform.  Job sites were assigned and then folks were able to fellowship with each other and go off to bed for a good night’s sleep.

“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time.”  T.S. Eliot

It is hard to believe that another week is coming to a close.  Time just seems to be flying by these days.

Last night we had a wonderful reflection on the youth in the county, done by some of the youth in the PV Community.  It was a wonderful and thought provoking sharing.

Today, as always was our non-home repair day.  We aren’t out on home repair sites, but it is quite a busy day.  After the morning scrubbing of the school, volunteers set off to Mullens to help with distribution day at the Itmann Food Bank and to once again work with UGWA doing both clean up and water monitoring.

We also continued with our series of home repair classes at St. Vincent DePaul.  This week the participants were taught the tricks of installing and hanging doors and doorknobs.

We also had our last day at soccer camp in Glen Fork.  I think a good time was had by all, campers and PVs alike.  Several of the campers then returned back to the school in the afternoon for a two hour tutoring session proudly wearing their new camp shirts.

Later in the afternoon, quite a few volunteers headed to Glen Rogers Manor for several fun games of Banana Bingo with the residents.  All in all a great day.

Tonight for dinner we are having quesadillas.  As the t-shirts in Dairy Queen say, scrump-dilly-icious!

Don’t forget to check back tomorrow for pictures from the week!