Well, today has been a good day. My small team finished the jobs at the home today and said goodbye to Dolores wishing her the best. She has repaired and newly tiled floors, painting done, a closet repaired, new lights installed, a new shower faucet and handles, some new plumbing and bath repairs, new skirt on the back of the house, a new window in the back door (almost) and a better home. We had a beautiful snow shower today to remind us of Canada.
Other teams have been repairing floors, building proper steps into homes, repairing rot in floors, painting, plumbing and doing electrical repairs and more. Our team has been interacting with our homeowners, chatting and learning about them, sharing lunch with them and enjoying sharing our week with them.
The days start with youth driven devotionals and they have been great. Then breakfast and off we go. Back by 3:30, shower and then dinner and the evening programmes. Tonight we're at a local centre where culture and history are taught. he team is being hosted by an astounding fiddler who is a local celebrity and is teaching us stories of the area, dancing moves familiar to the locals and Appalachia culture. Wonder stretching of our world views.
God is good and we see evidence of him here. We have become familiar with cultural poverty, situational poverty and generational poverty. Ask your kids when they come home and they can explain. Today we visited a local artisan who handcrafts musical instruments like the local dulcimer and guitars and Ukeleles made out of local woods. Pretty amazing!
Tomorrow we have a day off and a journey to a museum, a mine and a hike up a mountain. Can't wait.
Other teams have been repairing floors, building proper steps into homes, repairing rot in floors, painting, plumbing and doing electrical repairs and more. Our team has been interacting with our homeowners, chatting and learning about them, sharing lunch with them and enjoying sharing our week with them.
The days start with youth driven devotionals and they have been great. Then breakfast and off we go. Back by 3:30, shower and then dinner and the evening programmes. Tonight we're at a local centre where culture and history are taught. he team is being hosted by an astounding fiddler who is a local celebrity and is teaching us stories of the area, dancing moves familiar to the locals and Appalachia culture. Wonder stretching of our world views.
God is good and we see evidence of him here. We have become familiar with cultural poverty, situational poverty and generational poverty. Ask your kids when they come home and they can explain. Today we visited a local artisan who handcrafts musical instruments like the local dulcimer and guitars and Ukeleles made out of local woods. Pretty amazing!
Tomorrow we have a day off and a journey to a museum, a mine and a hike up a mountain. Can't wait.
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