The day was rough—many hardships about. Our journey began early yesterday with as we piled into our holiday themed vans. After a long ride, all of us worn out people reached Webster Springs. After a meal and greetings from community members, we settled down to a game of Mafi lead by senior leader, Calvin Grenda.
The next morning, the first vans headed to a church not realizing that they had hours of scraping ahead of them. It was such a blessing to learn the history of the church and meet the pastor. Several times he claimed that the church had saved him and the church’s prayers had been answered with hands ready to work. His Bible verse for this situation was Micah 6:8, our Jenni’s favorite. Our creative crew thought outside the box and ended up duct taping the scrapers to brooms for the tough to reach areas. As that crew was hard at work scraping paint, another group outside was surprised to see an outhouse still standing. Eager Zach, Gary and Hannah got right up on the roof and savagely ripped the roof down. After tearing layers back, the workers unexpectedly faced many bees, wasps and roaches. Despite the difficulties, the original outhouse was taken down and the frame work of the new outhouse began to spring up. Our very tired, wifi-less group is more than happy to face the rest of the week serving God alongside the community of Webster Springs. The Purple Group (Michael, Kelly, Ethan, Alex W., Elly, Izzy, Serena, Luke, Henry B., Lucy, Rob, Dawn and Ben) |