One Week In

It is Saturday morning, the sun us shining bright and it is a good day! This has been an interesting week. Our first round of Workfest college students have come and gone and they got a tremendous amount of work done for our participants. There were five crews and they were spread about in Jackson and Clay Counties. Two of the jobs are scheduled for all three weeks, and the other jobs are for one or two weeks. One of the houses needed 16 post holes dug to place some posts to hold up a new roof. This is done in situations where trailer walls are not strong enough to support the weight of a new roof. Anywho, when they started to dig the holes the crew realized that this house was built on solid rock. Drag! Some of that crew spent the week with a jack hammer working on getting those posts in. Those were some tired puppies when we saw them in the evenings.

The first night, Sunday, is welcome, dinner and orientation. Jackson House goes up to camp to be a part of all this. Dig it! There was a powerpoint presentation to introduce everyone to current volunteers, crew leaders and the staff that was involved in getting this all put together for the families. It was a fun night and the presentation was hilarious. Well done Lucas!

Monday night was dinner, and then a panel of current volunteers sat down to discuss their experience with CAP and answer any questions they might have. This is a great way to recruit long term volunteers for down the road. After the panel discussion we had some awesome music presented by Mitch Barrett, a local troubadour. This was a fun night.

Wednesday we were all on our own. Jackson House was not expected to go to camp, so we had a night together as a family and shared devotion together. It was nice to have a night off from all the activities. Some of the younger members went over to camp later to go hiking, I think.

Thursday night we all went over to The Oneida Baptist Institute (OBI). This place provides a dinner and the space to have our closing services together. The food was wonderful and then all the crews get up to tell how their week went and what type of experiences they have had. It was funny and quite touching. The participants are invited also, but only one family was able to come this week.

Our next group will be coming in Sunday afternoon/evening. I am excited to see the new faces and meet another group of young people who are committed to making a difference in Appalachia.

Today is going to be a day of hiking and taking in all the sunshine. I think there is supposed to be alot of rain next week, which is not good. Monday looks wonderful but after that it goes down hill. We'll see what the week brings, but either way the crews will be out there doing their thing.

Hope you are all doing well and blessings to all!
Jane