Day 3: Today is El's birthday!!! So we had some cake and ice cream at lunch and Abby made her a sign which you can see hanging in the back ground.


Today was and is a very busy day. We were again serving at Habitat at the building center and at the de-construction house. We sent a new crew to the house and they finished ripping up the floor. Our lead worker Will said that the two crews he has worked with are the hardest working volunteers he has ever worked with. Way to go ladies!

The rest of us began the day organzing the store before it opened and then we went on an interesting trip. A local church had recently installed a new $4.3 million organ. In the process they covered the floor with plywood which we were packing up to take back to the building center to sell. While we were there we toured the church and ended up doing a quick project for them. The church building is very large with a membership of only about 1300. They run a preschool and all sorts of other youth and adult activities. They have a very wealthy congregation and the things they are building and doing are AMAZING! We were all blown away by the facilities and what they allow them to accomplish. The rest of the day we worked removing hardware from doors and shelving all of the parts for sale, stocking the store with whatever we could, unloading truck loads of donations, cleaning up storage areas, cleaning ovens and refrigerators, and painting a little playhouse to be used in a local parade.

After finishing up our Habitat time, we took a quick drive to local community built by Habitat. Abby and I were here three years ago and saw everything in the beginning stages. The building phase is now complete with around 40 homes, a playground and a picnic area. It was neat to see houses that we worked on finished and occupied by families.

Tonght we are heading to a local baptist church to work with a youth group of high school and college aged young adults. We are doing a Q&A with them so they can ask us about college life, the Christian life, and why we are here serving. I hope we can help share what it means to be a young person of faith living and serving God daily. The pastor says that many of these kids are struggling to make a commitment to live the faith daily and he is hoping and praying that seeing our ladies living out what he is preaching can be a life chaning experince for his kids.

Please be praying that God can speak through us all tonight.

I will update later on how everything went.