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Apison – Day 3

They’re making me put my foot up for a while (recovering from a previous sprain), so I’ll write a little about our day so far…

We had scrambled eggs and ham for breakfast this morning, along with Psalm 127:1, and got over to Dave and Betty’s house by 8:00. We unloaded all the tools and other miscellaneous …er…stuff from our guys’ pickup trucks into Dave’s yard, because they would be needed to haul wood later.

A few of our group went to the Open House Volunteers HQ to help unload some drywall that came in on a tractor trailer for the house at the corner. The rest of us at Dave and Betty’s house divided ourselves into crews… a paint crew to paint the side and back of the house green, and crews building a roof on the back porch, and repairing the structural mistakes left by the absconding contractor.

… I can’t stand sitting here any longer, while people work around me… more later…

Apison – Day 2

…posting from my phone… still can’t get on my site. Tempted to try to find a coffee shop with WiFi here pretty soon…

Last night we decided to get an earlier start to our workday today, to try to beat the brutal heat (it’s been getting to the upper 90′s by mid-afternoon, under a blazing sun… humid, too). So we asked our chefs for breakfast at 6:30, and they cooked us up a delicious meal of scrambled or fried eggs and bacon, along with extras of cereal, pop tarts, bagels, bananas, and zucchini muffins. Plus, we got our daily “dose” of the Bible in a little medicine cup with a life saver: 1 Cor 15:58, “…Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” Such a good start to a day of work!

… to be continued when I have time…

Blogging update

Well, as of Monday evening, I still haven’t been able to access my site through the church’s WiFi proxy, so I’m using my Verizon connection, which means I’ll probably need to do text only so I don’t go over my MB quota. I’ll go back and add the photos as soon as I can. Grrr.

Meanwhile, though, you can see the photos I’ve posted to Twitter here. Also, you should be able to see my tweets in the lower right corner of this page…

Trying to gain access…

I’m still trying to gain access to my site via my laptop here at the church. I might have to wait for a response from the computer person at the church on Monday…

Journey to Apison

Our caravan of vehicles got underway shortly after 7 am this morning after Pastor Brad led us in a prayer…

Well, not a caravan exactly… we were all following the same directions, at least theoretically [looking at you, Princess Tracy Lost... :-) ], but we didn’t want to try to keep so many vehicles together. We headed south through the (rainy) mountains of West Virginia (our car stopped for lunch at an Arby’s near Princeton WV), then through western Virginia for a bit, on into Tennessee. We stayed on the interstates the whole way except, of course, for that Route 19 speed-trap cut-off through Summersville WV, and then a construction detour near Philadelphia and Cleveland TN. I was riding with John and Andie, and I really enjoyed getting to know them along the way, as I’d only been introduced to them briefly during our organizational meetings.

We arrived at our home-away-from-home around 6:00 pm…. Christ United Methodist Church in suburban Chattanooga. This is a HUGE church, with 4000-8000 members (we heard varying reports), and 4 Sunday services drawing about 1,500 each week. They had just put on a beautiful new addition – the first service in the new space had been only that morning!

It turned out that we were to stay in the Sunday School building… they gave us one large classroom in the Adult wing that we could leave all our stuff in all week, but we were permitted to spread out into the other classrooms as long as we cleared our belongings back into A-12 each morning (they apparently have activities and meetings going on fairly constantly all week). Those of us who had arrived helped unload our gear, including the kitchen items, and worked on figuring out how to arrange ourselves. I felt like we almost needed a GPS just to find our way around this church!

Dinner this night wasn’t really a planned event, so groups of us kind of did our own thing… I went with John, Andie, and Diane to Lupi’s a couple miles down the road – a really funky little artisanal pizza place. And then we went to Bruster’s right next door for a dessert of ice cream; I tried a “small” cone of Key Lime Pie ice cream… SO tasty, with the little bits of graham cracker “crust”!

After we all got back from dinner, we gathered for evening devotions, which included a prayer call from Tonya’s son Derek, who’s currently in Costa Rica for a year. Lights were out around 11, though the giggling in the women’s dorm room went on a while longer… :-)

Almost ready!

I refuse to not do the something I can do

We had our final organizational meeting last night for our trip to Apison. We each got one of these (very bright!) t-shirts… I love the slogan!

We got our rides all sorted, and discussed what to bring (things like sunblock, gloves, boots, high-power bug spray…).

There was a nice article in Monday’s Ellwood City Ledger about our trip!