November 17-23rd 2024
NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS: 32
TEAMS WHO CAME AND WHERE FROM:
Sharon Ferguson and team from MISSISSIPPI
Jordan Parker and Oscar Rodriguez (Revolve Church) SOUTH CAROLINA
Taylor and team from (Hope Church) SOUTH CAROLINA
Rob Kallgren from Charleston, SOUTH CAROLINA
Bridge Church team from IOWA
Tyler Rominger and team from MICHIGAN
Cheryl MacKinnon and team from CALIFORNIA (Saddleback Church)
PROJECT PROGRESS MADE
WOODWARD HOUSE : Beginning of the week, Jordan Parker and Oscar Rodriguez came in Sunday evening and they stayed three days. They worked on replacing tile for the woodstove hearth and also some electrical work. They were amazing. Very skilled and willing to do whatever. At the end of the week, Rob Kallgren came up and has really stepped up to help lead the efforts at the Woodward House. This week we purchased flooring for the home with donations from the Gathering Church donors, YAY! Teams continued to make progress on the Woodward house!
SCOUTING: Sharon Ferguson and team from Mississippi including several veterans spent time helping with the Woodward house as well as scouting areas of need in the Green Mountain, Pensacola and Burnsville areas. They made several deliveries of supplies they brought with them.
MR. CAUSEY/HEAVY MACHINERY: The Iowa team came and they were awesome. Scott Sloan had a skid steer and dump trailer. They did lots of debri clean up work at Mr. Causey’s clearing debri from the yard and taking loads to the dump.
NAYLOR HOME: progress was made for the Naylor’s running electrical and finishing dry wall by the Tyler Rominger team. The Naylors are so close! Luis’ team of skilled labor from Fearless Works organization plan to come and finish both their farm house and their cottage beginning of the year.
GOD STORIES
WOOD STOVE TILE: Jordan and Oscar arrived sunday night and we were discussing the Woodward house over dinner. Jordan is a contractor and Oscar works with him. We had told them they would probably be doing some framing work. This week it was set to get VERY cold in the area, they were calling for snow. Sunday morning I got a text from Melanie Ethridge concerned about getting the Woodwards woodstove back in and functional. The team earlier that weekend had finally removed the woodstove so the wet/moldy subfloor underneath could be removed and replaced. She said “we have to get their woodstove back in before the snow”, and was frantically trying to figure out how to get to town to do it, while not being super skilled in this area (it had been years since she had done tile she said). As I shared this new found need with Jordan and Oscar over the dinner table they chuckled…. It just so happened that Oscar is a professional custom tile installer. The next day they went to the Woodwards and started the tile job! And praise God, the next team got the woodstove back and installed by Thursday before the snow came. Only God! :)
KITCHEN CABINETS: Scott Sloan from the Bridge Church came into town at just the right time when we needed to calculate and order kitchen cabinets for the Woodwards. We knew he was coming into town with heavy machinery and a dump trailer ready to help. We had no idea he would be able to help with cabinets. Turns out, He is not only a custom cabinet maker but he had a program on his computer that could calculate exactly what’s needed! The next hour Robert got a text from a friend and he said a man in his congregation had felt God lead him to donate kitchen cabinets to a family in need and did we know of anyone who needed any? Just in the nick of time, God lined up all this in such a miraculous way!