Tuesday, August 13

 

Truck arrives for moving containers to Oklahoma

Today our team is splitting in to two teams.  Ray, Steve and Pastor Mark will go to a house that was flooded and needs drywall hung.  They have to go to Hope Village by 8:00 a.m. and pickup directions and tools to the work site.  Everyone else will go back to Christ Lutheran Church and need to be there by 7:15 a.m.  Today, there is a funeral at the church so work will stop at the break/devotion time until 1:00 p.m.  Reminds us that the life in the church goes on no matter if the church is under construction.

In the morning, Roger, Fred, Rick and Noah prepare sheet rock for drywall work.  There is a lot of drywall that needs to be done.  Lynn, Ann and Jane do some more painting and move boxes to clear an area that the Mission Builders have plans to start working on next.  Then, work stops at 9:30 to help move the chairs into the sanctuary for the funeral service.  Ann and Jane run the vacuum to clear some dust.  Devotions and snack break are held outside.  Hymns are played with accompaniment by a member of the church on the keyboard and Chris from Mission Builders on the violin.  The devotional word of the day is compassion. The weather is absolutely perfect outside this morning.  Being outside let's the church set-up for the funeral and respectfully when we are done with our devotions, clear the table, chairs and food to be able to have some free time.


I'm Coming Back!

Ceiling workers

Meanwhile, Ray, Steve and Mark are at the Johnson's house along with others sent there by Hope Village.  The learn the house had 10 feet of water inside from the flood.  The owner has put a sign in the front yard.   Their project is to hang a ceiling of drywall.

Steve & Ray

Mark working

Lots of work
















The Christ Lutheran Church team is now on a break until 1:00 pm.  With this time, we take advantage of a taking Roger to drop his motorcycle off at the Honda dealer for tires.  Then, the group takes a quick tour of the Scandinavian Heritage Park in downtown Minot.  The largest percentage of Norwegian descendants per state population reside in the Minot area.  In celebration, a park was established and houses a windmill, a Stave Church modeled after one in Norway, a Stabbur (house with grass growing on top), a log house and a Dala Horse.  It is a very interesting park and a nice break in the beautiful weather.

After the visit to the park, the group heads for lunch to the Community Soup Kitchen called Katie's Kitchen.  Six churches in Minot have organized a lunch meal seven days and week and dinner on Wednesday and Sundays for anyone in the community who has a need for a meal.  Today's meal is held at Bread of Life Lutheran Church but it is actually Christ Lutheran Church's day to serve.  With their church under re-construction, Bread of Life offers their facilities.  This community knows how to team.  We are greeted by the Pastor of Bread of Life for a prayer before our meal.  Once again the hospitality of this church and community is amazing.  Our meal is filling and the compassion shown for those in need in the community by a church community still suffering from their own struggle to recovery is very moving.  Thank you to the women of Christ Lutheran Church!

Women of Christ Lutheran

Add caption

Back to work at the church after lunch.  The teams start their afternoon's tasks.  More drywalling, building shelves and more painting.  The team at the house are continuing their work.  And everyone quits working at 4:45 p.m. to clean up their work areas and then head back to the hotel for dinner.  Pictures below show the team at work.  

Fred with Bill Graves

Ann & Roger building shelves

Lynn painting

Tonight, Ray, Jane and Fred are meeting with the Stephen Ministers of Christ Lutheran Church in fellowship.  Three prayer shawls from SAKLC are being given to the Stephen Ministers to give to those who are need of healing and prayer.

Thank you to all at SAKLC who made the prayer shawls.  Also, thank you to all at SAKLC who sent cards with Pastor Mark.  He shared these with us on Sunday night and we will be handing them out to people in Minot to let them know SAKLC cares.  What a blessing!