Wednesday, April 6 In the beginning

My crew continued with the church fellowship hall floor. This is about where it was when we started today. This is the front half that is looking pretty good, but it needs edging. The back half needs a lot of tile.
 

Storms yesterday

THIS IS REGARDING THE STORMS ON MONDAY! I do not know why the entry picked up Wednesday's date. It was written on Tuesday. Thank you for your prayers on the weather. Yesterday we had some bad storms. We heard sirens, which seem to have been tornado sirens. I have not heard of any group seeing one. We did have strong winds and heavy rain, thunder and rain. Some had to detour home because of downed trees. Other than some groups loosing power, our work was unaffected. Jack, Ron, Travis, Ross, and I were safe in the basement while we worked. The other WPC folk were in different groups, but they all returned safely too.

Today has been a beautiful day after the storm type day.

Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church

Others of us continue at the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church.

Jack has been the cutter today. The women and I laid a lot more of tile, more to go. The guys started the day making yet more cement, and moved on to other things. The ended the day by setting some tile too.

 

I do not mean to over look the other projects that WPC people are on. I just do not have any pictures.

WPC members working on a new house

This home replaces one that was totaled by the flood. The PDA crew lead by Jim
has been painting the entire house. They started with primer and expect to
complete the finish coats as well by the end of the week or soonerl

This was just a trickle before the storm yesterday.

Taken yesterday after the storm by Jim Smallish at his crew's worksite.

Jack and Jane, our other host at Westminster in Nashville

Jane and Mary are so wonderful making sure we have what we need to be comfortable and keeping things running smoothly.
 

1st work day, Monday April 5, 2011

Considering the number of crews, 3 different groups, the organizer's did a remarkable job having us lined up and set to go this morning. Transportation of so many workers, over 50 was a challenge. I got shifted from a painting crew, to a tile laying crew at the last minute. Talk about answers to prayer! Yes, I can do painting. Probably have the most experience painting, so I was assigned to a painting crew. However, I really wanted to try my hand at other things, tile in particular. So when at the last minute, I was asked, because of transportation issues, if I minded switching. Ha! A literal answer to prayer! Of course, I said, "YES!" There was a bit of confusion which resulted in my lunch going off in the van to yet another worksite. The generous people of my crew shared their lunches with me, and I did not go hungry, and I trust neither did they. At the end of the day I was one tired Grandma!

 

At the church we worked on, there were two projects. One was concrete mixing and laying around some pipe, and making some flooring. (Not my project, so only one picture). Then there was the tile project. Tom the team leader is from Washington state, and the others in my group are from Lehigh Valley Presbytery.