Saturday September 24
Our work wasn't exactly top speed today, we were still getting rain bands and wind gusts from RITA. A team from Campus Church in Atlanta went out anyway because they were leaving today and they wanted to get some MUCKING done. Mucking is what we've been calling gutting a house. Mucking and gutting.
Most of the volunteer camp stayed at the building today. I put together a wooden picnic table. We have some new fellows in charge of the tool crib, the Mcmillon brothers.
We loaded up one of the TOCC elder's truck full of roofing stuff, he has to re-do his whole roof.
I operated the forklift to store some of our food boxes in container trucks. In the rain! It was so off and on, we had to do it.
We cleaned up the building getting ready for church services tomorrow.
Some nights, I'll find a group of people to hang around in the evenings. There will be anything from music, chit-chat, laughter, poetry, ballet (when Natalie was here), massages (when Paul was here), and anything else that comes up. Tonight we had an illustrator of children's books, a harmonica player to accompany the guitar, a poet, a nurse from Tallahassee.
There's a doctor from Kentucky who brought down three guys-- Charles looks about 25. They cut trees today.
I'm still having dinner with my preacher friend from the Reformed church and a Church of Christ preacher from Nebraska City. We always have good discussions. We have been discussing the future of the church from an outreach--mission and ministry perspective. Also had a good talk with Tim about that today.
Our evening devotional was good, great singing and Rob brought a good devotional about Jesus in the synagogue healing the woman with the infirmity.
A couple of young men from New York got here yesterday-- they are both big ole dudes and both have good dispositions of faith.
Thanks for those who have been emailing me and calling ever now and then.
I was talking yesterday to the youth minister, Marcus. This is his first ministry and much of his time so far has been with the Katrina relief project. I told him that he was going to go through ministry withdrawals when church got back to "normal." Tammany Oaks has a fantastic record thusfar of the number of days spent in ministry to the number of hours spent in "church services."
Most of the volunteer camp stayed at the building today. I put together a wooden picnic table. We have some new fellows in charge of the tool crib, the Mcmillon brothers.
We loaded up one of the TOCC elder's truck full of roofing stuff, he has to re-do his whole roof.
I operated the forklift to store some of our food boxes in container trucks. In the rain! It was so off and on, we had to do it.
We cleaned up the building getting ready for church services tomorrow.
Some nights, I'll find a group of people to hang around in the evenings. There will be anything from music, chit-chat, laughter, poetry, ballet (when Natalie was here), massages (when Paul was here), and anything else that comes up. Tonight we had an illustrator of children's books, a harmonica player to accompany the guitar, a poet, a nurse from Tallahassee.
There's a doctor from Kentucky who brought down three guys-- Charles looks about 25. They cut trees today.
I'm still having dinner with my preacher friend from the Reformed church and a Church of Christ preacher from Nebraska City. We always have good discussions. We have been discussing the future of the church from an outreach--mission and ministry perspective. Also had a good talk with Tim about that today.
Our evening devotional was good, great singing and Rob brought a good devotional about Jesus in the synagogue healing the woman with the infirmity.
A couple of young men from New York got here yesterday-- they are both big ole dudes and both have good dispositions of faith.
Thanks for those who have been emailing me and calling ever now and then.
I was talking yesterday to the youth minister, Marcus. This is his first ministry and much of his time so far has been with the Katrina relief project. I told him that he was going to go through ministry withdrawals when church got back to "normal." Tammany Oaks has a fantastic record thusfar of the number of days spent in ministry to the number of hours spent in "church services."
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