Today started with rain in the morning. Actually, so much so that we had to postpone starting til about 9. We still had breakfast at 7 and then devotions at 7:30. Then we gave them a couple of minutes to go back and get coats from their rooms. We met at the park at 9 and then split up from there. The college group went back to the Friendship Academy to organize and clean a closet. They spent the whole day there.
My high school group went back to The Door and finished scraping tile up off the kitchen floor and painting the cafeteria.
The other high school group went to the park and started edging the paths throughout the park with shovels. This work was crazy hard. They did this all morning until we all went to lunch. When we came back from lunch, we, as in some of my group, picked up the shovels and started trimming the edge of the paths. The other group went to paint backstops to softball fields, pickup trash, and pick weeds.
It was a hard day out working today! The sun came out about 1 and it was about 90 degrees and super humid from the morning rain. One cool story we heard today was that this work that we are doing in the park is helping the Gallery Church host an Easter Egg Hunt next Easter where they are planning on having over 1000 kids show up. That is why we are edging the sidewalk, that is why we are picking up trash, that is why we are painting the backstops, and that is why we are picking weeds! It's all for the glory of Christ and to show others His love for us all!!
Tonight we were supposed to do a block party for a new community but it rained and we had to cancel it. We will do it tomorrow night and let you know how it goes! We send you our love and send you our prayers!
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