I Made it!!

Well I'm here and I made it!! I met up with Sue and George at the baggage claim. They were waiting for me to come off the plane. What was even better was that I recognized them! We got my luggage fairly quickly and hopped the shuttle to Enterprise to get our car. From there we drove over to the church. Most of the group was already there. I am staying in the back trailer with Liz and Lindsay. It is nice cause it is just the three of us... Wow.. that makes me think of the song.. ok, it's gone now.... We did some group building stuff on Saturday night after dinner.

My home for the next week!

Sunday we got up and had breakfast. This day we would worship with Gary and his congregation. Before the service he took us on a tour of the renovated building. We got to see the new conference room and the kitchen that a group helped to put in. Most incredibly we got to see the new Sanctuary. It was absolutely beautiful! The front of the sanctuary is all portable so that if they want to have a kids play or other things they are able. They also installed a new sound system and put a special stop in the back for people to run the sound system. The worship service was very similar to what I am used to in Bedford. The doxology and a few other things were the same. As part of their choir they have a drum set. Can't imagine us having something like that at our church!

Good Shepard's new Sanctuary!

This afternoon a group when and replaced a woman's roof. She is a member of Good Shepard. I had the opportunity to go and see what they had been doing! It was pretty cool to see all those people up on the roof!

A Couple of the Guys up on the roof!!

Helped to make dinner! I know me cooking! Someone took a picture of it so that we have proof of the event. I helped to put a meatloaf together. It was fun squishing all of the meat together and mixing it all up! Imagine me helping out with the cooking! We had an amazing dinner of lemon chicken with artichokes (no of course I didn't eat the artichokes.. I'm not the adventurous!) with rice pilaf. Yummy yummy! Sue is a great cook! She kind of reminds me of Mom making sure that everyone is taken care of and has enough to eat and all of that. Got a list of things to do for the week. Liz and I are going to build some shelves in one of the Sunday school rooms and design and build a set of shelves for the laundry room (haven't figured out where yet they will go, but I have faith that we'll manage it!). We are also going to organize the back tool shed. I think they will be Tuesday projects. Liz has named us the "Banger Sistahs". It should be fun.

I am amazed how this group has really made me feel like a part of them. They have really been quite receptive to me. All of my worries about coming into a group of total strangers have been erased! This is quite a group and I am honored to be a part of it.

There are a couple of us with digital cameras and laptops. We are going to consolodate all of our pictures and put them onto CDs at the end of the trip for people to take home with them.

Well this is quite a long blog so I'm gonna stop this one and continue today's activities on another post.