Can this really be the last day of the Servant Trip to Minot?! Everyone is up early for breakfast and departs to arrive for prayer before work starts at 7:30. The Mission Builders are already there and getting the work areas set up. The SAKLC teams knows what they are to do today....finish the storage room shelving, get as much drywall up as possible, and clean-up the work areas. The work starts and before you know it, it is break and devotion time 9:45 a.m. Lynn even gets to ring the bell to announce break.
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| Break Time (Ray & Ann working) |
The devotional word for today is Faith. This word has meaning for each of us individually as we reflect during Bill's devotional talk. Yes, SAKLC Servants did have faith that their talents would be able to help Minot in the rebuilding and especially at Christ Lutheran Church.
At the end of today's devotion, Chris (on violin) and Gloria on Piano) play Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" for Steve and Carole - Mission Builders - for their Wedding Anniversary today.
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| Steve & Carole - Happy Anniversary |
The week went by quickly and we met so many different people. Their stories are the real story and so many could be told. People in Minot have experienced their community hurting, healing and now rebuilding. The recovery will continue after we leave. The ELCA Mission Builders, alongside members of the congregation, will continue to the rebuild the flooded church. And the work will continue at the house where Ray, Mark and Steve installed ceiling drywall. FEMA is coming to pick-up their trailer the end of September. There will be people still not in their homes who will need to find housing even if their home isn't complete.
A tradition of the Mission Builders is to write a personal message on the plywood or drywall before the final drywall goes up in churches that they build. The SAKLC team completed this week -- painted two storage rooms and completely shelved one; built a dropped ceiling in a long hallway; drywalled two classrooms and framed and drywalled a portion of another classroom; partially drywalled a hallway; built the framing for three walls; clean-up mortar and brick and just clean-up. The Mission Builders asked us to write a message of our own. Here are the messages we left.
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| Roger's Message |
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| Lynn leaves this message |
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| Ann, Fred, Roger's message |
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| Noah's ceiling |
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| Rick & Noah R15's from Winter Park |
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| Jane's Message |
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| Steve's message |
A tradition of the Mission Builders is to write a personal message on the plywood or drywall before the final drywall goes up in churches that they build. The SAKLC team completed this week -- painted two storage rooms and completely shelved one; built a dropped ceiling in a long hallway; drywalled two classrooms and framed and drywalled a portion of another classroom; partially drywalled a hallway; built the framing for three walls; clean-up mortar and brick and just clean-up. The Mission Builders asked us to write a message of our own. Here are the messages we left. 
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