Today on YSP we were able to make a lot of progress on the inside of the house along with the outside. The past two days we had three work teams on our site to help paint and renovate a house, but today we gained another team to help us finish the job. Their help is what allowed us to almost finish paintinging inside and outside. When we got back to the church we are staying at some of the families we are helping joined is for dinner. It was so fulfilling to see the thanks in their eyes and the pastor of a church that another team is working on closed us in prayer and he expressed his thanks and blessed us all.
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Michael-Angelos Day Four
Today was a very busy day for the Focus 5 crew, now renamed (a much more fitting title) "The Michael-Angelos." The name came about as a result of our abundance of painting projects throughout the week, our team leader Michael, and our crew of ANGELos. Today we contributed our painting talents to not only one but two different work sites, starting at Miss Alva Rose Brown's home in the morning. Her recent broken bones and heart problems prevented her from keeping up with her house, especially the back porch and garage area. The Michael-Angelos stepped in to help by painting the interior of her back porch, repairing the screens and door of the porch, painting the garage door, and (very bravely) climbing up on to the garage roof to paint it. Once completed we presented to her the keepsake cross that team member Betsey made, and headed off to a tasty fried chicken lunch at Bojangos. After eating we got back to work at the work site that is fixing up the house. We again utilized our master painting skills to paint the whole home's exterior a nice "butter" yellow.
Team Awesome .... Wednesday
Hello from Team Awesome!
We have been working on Mrs. Bollinger's house repairing the outside. Today we finished up caulking our newly placed shingles and support beams. We then proceeded to prime and paint a majority of the outside of the house. With help from other teams, we were able to completely finish 3 out of 4 sides of the house, including the front porch. In addition to the house, we successfully covered ourselves in paint. The area under the soon-to-be screened in porch continues to be shingled and repaired. The house has seen many improvements to the outside since we arrived, and we hope to continue to improve for the rest of the week. For lunch, we went to Bojangles, the restaurant of "Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits", and everyone enjoyed their meals. As if that wasn't enough, after we stopped at Wendy's for Frostys. Overall, we had a great and productive day and are looking forward to finishing up the side of the house!
-Allee and Morgan
We have been working on Mrs. Bollinger's house repairing the outside. Today we finished up caulking our newly placed shingles and support beams. We then proceeded to prime and paint a majority of the outside of the house. With help from other teams, we were able to completely finish 3 out of 4 sides of the house, including the front porch. In addition to the house, we successfully covered ourselves in paint. The area under the soon-to-be screened in porch continues to be shingled and repaired. The house has seen many improvements to the outside since we arrived, and we hope to continue to improve for the rest of the week. For lunch, we went to Bojangles, the restaurant of "Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits", and everyone enjoyed their meals. As if that wasn't enough, after we stopped at Wendy's for Frostys. Overall, we had a great and productive day and are looking forward to finishing up the side of the house!
-Allee and Morgan
Our host church at sunset
A chance to reflect, relax and focus on being good stewards of His word.
Picnic at Plymouth Screwpile Lighthouse
Jim Post & Adesina Jerkins had a BBQ chicken picnic for the crews at the lighthouse park on the Roanoke River Tuesday evening. What an awesome day!
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
The Church Avengers . . . Tuesday
Hi Everyone! Well, our awesome work team "The Church Avengers" really made some major progress on our house today!
Matt and Lance took on the challenge of cleaning and repairing all of the windows. Looking at the windows now, you would never have guessed how many bugs had made their homes there, or how much crud had crowded the panes. Matt and Brianna had primed and primed and primed and primed and primed! They covered every single room (sans the bathroom) with primer. They covered the bare spots in the ceiling and along the edged of every wall and ceiling joint.
Emily did some staining and really worked hard repairing the bathroom. Now, thanks to the team's hard work the homeowner can see thru the windows, and is well on her way to having a great bathroom & paint job. We are so excited to keep improving this house and doing God's work.
~~~~~~ Brianna
Matt and Lance took on the challenge of cleaning and repairing all of the windows. Looking at the windows now, you would never have guessed how many bugs had made their homes there, or how much crud had crowded the panes. Matt and Brianna had primed and primed and primed and primed and primed! They covered every single room (sans the bathroom) with primer. They covered the bare spots in the ceiling and along the edged of every wall and ceiling joint.
Emily did some staining and really worked hard repairing the bathroom. Now, thanks to the team's hard work the homeowner can see thru the windows, and is well on her way to having a great bathroom & paint job. We are so excited to keep improving this house and doing God's work.
~~~~~~ Brianna
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