Another 2 days have come and gone!!!

So again these last two days have been amazing. God's Awesomeness is pouring out.

We started out the Sunday morning Bright and early. We spent the morning chatting, bonding, games and napping. We then all left for the midday Living Witness Worship Service.... wow! That was an absolutely amazing experience. Can I Get an AMEN southern style. Pastor Pierre preached a great hour and half sermon and we had great worship with a powerful alter call following. God was truly present at that service!

We then came back to the Yellow house while Steve, Dennis, and I went to Walmart and waited 45 minutes in line!!! Dennis and I met a woman in line who told her story of where she was during the hurricain after she noticed our bright beacons of a shirt. (the bright yellow shirts in the pictures) She then told us how she wanted to be able to serve the future volunteers by feeding them a meal because she can't physically help out with rebuilding. What an amazing way for God to work.... in a Walmart line!

After we got back we all went to Mississippi to go to the ocean. That was so much fun. First, we drove for 30min in the wrong direction. So we turned around and made quite a few u turns before we finally got to the beach. You could walk atleast 300 yards from the beach and the water was only knee high! The majority of the group decided walk off to the dropoff and go swimming while the rest of us walked out as far as we could without getting wet.

After swimming, we went out to eat at Da Kitchen which had great variety of pastas and seafood! The walls had giant murals and a lot of us played "Hot Plate" where we switched plates to try all of the different food.

On the way home many more U-Turns were made then finally Caleb out "Tour Guide/Host" finally took the lead and got us home safely!



OUR FIRST DAY OF WORK
First of all... I want to say everyone is working so hard and I am so honored to be working with this team. God has truly brought together such a wide variety of talents to blend together a group that has such a strong work ethic... we can get anything done this week!!! We are so excited fir this opportunity to serve!

Our day got a slow start but once we got going... well we got going. We headed over to Living Witness and met all of the Nehamiah Boys. We started out with half of us painting the house down the street and the other half breaking out sewer pipes and prepping for concrete in the dormatories, to finish where the other team left off and for the new addition. Wow was that a lot of work! (I swear there was an entire sidewalk of bricks that had to come out from under that dirt!)

After breaking for lunch, we had an amazing bible study/devotional with the Nehamiah boys! It lasted for about 2 hours! It was so great to hear their stories of hardship and their journies to where they are today. We learned so much from them and they may have learned a little from us as well. And to put the icing on the cake, Dave and Joyce showed up right in the middle of the study!!!

After the bible study, we went in a couple of different directions.... Some went back to painting, others went to hang out with the Nehamiah boys, others took a break at the house, and I made cookies for the team (after multiple requests) while we waited for our supplies for the next step.

Caleb and Susanna cooked a great meal of spagetti salad and garlic bread. It was so good!!! After dinner we went over to Castle Rock to hear Caleb give us a presentation on what Urban Impact is all about.

And now you are pretty much caught up on the last two days! Pictures are up and more are to come. Keep and eye out!

Here are the nicknames so far.... (gues who is who!)

Grandma
Shazam
Waterboy
Tonebone
Princess
Plumber
Buba Uno
Rockstar
Toe, Shaq
Grandpa
Rhino
Narrator


With all of God's Love and Blessings,

Sarah B.
Andy
Susanna
John
Sarah H
Dave
Joyce
Jeremy
Helen
Bill
Kaitlyn
Tony
Kristin
Dennis
Kelsey
Steve