Day Four — Shelle, Andrew, JT Blog

Worship: Our worship tonight started with the idea that we all have had and continue to have different identities. God knows our pasts, our present and who we are becoming. God loves us despite our pasts and constantly challenges us to become who we really are meant to be. We sang songs and prayed. We shared thoughts about our past roles in life. We reminded each other that we are all LOVED children of God.
Work: Today got off to a pretty slow start as we sat around for most of the morning. We were so effective in our previous days of work that they had to scramble around during the morning to find more work for us to do. Once going we continued to tear it up, putting up new insulation and dry wall in a house that had suffered smoke damage last winter, but had sat idle until now. We also discovered how hard it is to hold the very heavy pieces of dry wall to the ceiling while somebody comes around with a screw gun to put it in place. We also successfully completed the removal of an old tub and shower along with the replacement of a new one. Tomorrow I expect a completely finished and dry walled house.

Food and Fun: This day involved much free time which allowed for lots of fun and games. The bulk of that free time presented itself in the evening. Andrew, Jay and Matt C. took the opportunity to take their newly purchased basketball shooting sleeves on a test run on the court. Ben, Kendra, Allyse, Justin and Kelsey spent their free time working on dance moves for the upcoming dance-off that the group from Connecticut, who is also working with Homes for the week, had challenged us to in the morning. Many adults enjoyed the hilarity provided by the game Would You Rather, as they laughed the night away. The rest wore out arms and friendships in the competitive battle for bean-bag toss dominance. Kelly and JT fought their way to supremacy in this contest. Another popular activity was decorating the stoles which Kelly had introduced for us to give to our prayer partners. After a day of much gaiety and feasting, which included home-cooked food at the Cozy Corner, it seems that everyone fell asleep fat and happy!