July 1st

July 1,
What a great day!  We were able to work inside the First United Methodist Outreach Center and help this wonderful group that has been so hospitable to us.  We removed wet drywall, painted our large basement hangout walls, started a Mural for the Youth Underground, assembled storage shelves and visited tomorrow's job site  We are blessed to have daily devotions as a group and are inspired by all the outreach this church is doing.  Today they had a blood drive upstairs and a community meeting in the evening.  The church members inspire us with their stories of service and grace. Food wise today we had some scrambled eggs, coffee cake, cereal, and some yogurt made for breakfast by Pam and Connor. Lunch we made our classic deli meat sandwiches or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with some chips and some water. Finally, for dinner, we had some pulled pork and sweet BBQ sauce made by Anne Byrd and some salad and BBQ beans all prepared by Barb and Kate. Devotion was lead by Peter this morning and Molly wrapping up after dinner. The theme for this week is prayer so we will include that in our discussions. Tomorrow we will most likely be working outside for the first time on this trip since everything was inside today in the nice AC. Still do not know what we will be doing but we are prepared for anything. Goodnight!  
Blog done by Connor and Pam

Howard complaining to Connor how he had to fill in the cracks that Connor could not get to

The squad working on installing a rail for the wall dividers (Molly getting help from Howard)

Kate working on the Mural for the First United Methodist Youth Group

Molly tagged along with Kate on the mural

Bob is making sure he does not get any drywall dust in his mouth, nose, and apparently his eyes too