Arcade Wesleyan Church

We had our first full work day today. We woke up about 7:30 and got to the work site about 8 ish. We were just finishing demo that had begun there earlier. we had to finish stripping all of the sheet rock and as you can tell from the picture to the right, we had to rip a floor that was rotted out.

The kids worked hard and did a great job. I have tones of pictures that the parents can use as proof once we get back that their children can perform manual labor and not die. The house we were working on is in bad shape. It still has standing water under the floor but that is common here in the swamp lands.

We finished knocking out the rest of the drywall by lunch time and moved onto the floors in the afternoon. Part of the group also worked on getting up the linolium squares that were from the bad place. They worked hard all day and still only got up maybe a quarter of it. It didn’t want to budge.

Needless to say, everyone should sleep soundly tonight . . . what am I saying, the adult sponsors will sleep soundly. Mostly because one of them is very good at knockout basketball and it’s not who you are thinking (think shorter).

We are excited to see what God is going to show us and teach us this trip. We definitely learned a good lesson in servanthood and doing all things without complaining. To help institute the last lesson we bought muzzles. Seriously, it amazing to see these houses that are still in chambles 6 months after the storm surge that wiped them out. Many of the families are busy back at work and are ust plain tired of living in a FEMA trailer and working on their homes after already long days at work.

The other team showed up tonight and together we make a strong crew. Look out sheet rock.

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