Friday, July 21st - Final day of VBS - We ended up with 27 people today for VBS. The week was good. The kids loved the playtime in the afternoon on the water slide, playing with water balloons, face painting and crafts. The "new" ladies bathroom got its second coat of paint, however, once it dried, it need repainting due to some streaking. Most of the teams left today so not much work around the church was done. The first priority is the food and lunch ministry so we put all the people left on those ministries. Friday night, Pastor Randy and Jill treated the Corona group to a dinner cruise. We all took a cruise on the Natchez, an old fashioned paddle boat on a 3-hour Mississippi River boat ride. We boarded at 6pm and went around the boat taking in everything. The dinner was a buffet and had a lot of food, including prime rib. We had a nice slow dinner and then went up on deck to watch the scenery go by as we cruised done the Mississippi. During most of the cruise, a dixieland band played. It was a very pleasant and relaxing experience. We cruised down about 20 miles and turned around and cruised back. Once we returned, we went down to the French Quarter and found Cafe DeMonte (sp?). There we had latte and benets (a powdered sugar coated donut type of dessert.......very good. Pastor and Jill are very appreciative of the work the Corona team is doing and thanked us a lot and felt we needed to relax a little......good choice. A team of 9 people came in late from Minnesota.

Saturday, another team arrived from Alabama. they were here three weeks ago and hung a lot of sheet rock. They picked up where they left off and started hanging more sheet rock. Most of the people worked in the food tent. The VBS team left in the late afternoon so all we had was the Alabama team and they worked late into the night. A team of 7 people from Pawley's Island in South Carolina arrived.

Sunday....a little surprise. The VBS team did not clean up as well as we needed for
church. So, I spent the first two hours (8am-10am) picking up the sanctuary, the
nursery, the outside and the children's church area. Then, the clouds opened up and the rains came. Also, a team of 31 people arrived to be in our service and lead worship. As we were expecting this team and Pastor Randy wanted to host them for lunch, I made a beeline to Wows Wingery (BBQ wings) to order 300 wings for lunch. I made it back in time for the sermon....It was good. Pastor is a very good preacher. I left as soon as the service was over to pick up the wings. While I was there, I got a call to order another 100 wings as another team arrived.....a team of 10 people from Kenmore, NY near Buffalo. As I finished up the order of 400 wings and ready to leave, I got another call about another team arrived......24 people from Goldcreek Community Church outside of Everett, Washington and I put in an order of another 200 wings for someone else to pick up. I left the restaurant with 400 wings in four 100-wing packages stacked and sitting on my front passenger seat. I made a u-turn and one of the 100-wing packages was not closed completely and 100 wings turned upside down on my floor mat and carpet landing most in the top section of the package. I pulled off the road and opened the door and lost 6 wing that fell on the ground in the rain. I tried to right the remaining wings and re-stack them. With one hand covered with BBQ sauce and holding the stack of wings, I finally made it back to the church and started unloading all the wings in the rain. Eventually, I cleaned up all the mess in my car and shampooed the carpet to clean off the BBQ mess. We did have a good lunch. We relaxed a little in the afternoon and in the evening, we went to one of the local family for dinner. Norman and Keena's house was one of the houses that we worked on in Feb this year. They are now totally in the house. Only one room remains to be finished. The Corona team did all the electrical, plumbing and delivered the sheetrock and mud for the walls. Paul and his son, Justin, Barbara and I went for Gumbo! It was a great evening of Norman and Keena sharing with us about their Katrina experience. Some of the problems early after Katrina became blessings later on. They are now in their home with no mortage payments and with the donated labor of electrical, plumbing and finish work, they owe nothing on their home. It is a lovely home and they are the first one in their
neighborhood to be living in their home. We had a great time. When we returned, we learned another team of 10 from Jonesboro, Arkansas and a team of 22 people from Manchester, Mass had arrived, bringing the total to 82 people to start the week.

Monday, starting a new week.......with a group of 82 people, we started working on the church doing a lot of sheetrocking, mudding and, gratefully, a plumber, some needed plumbing work. A couple of the teams had contractors so they help guide the people in the construction work. So, work was divided up with a lot of sheetrocking and mudding getting done.

Tuesday, we started gutting homes. We sent out three teams to gut three more homes.
Another team stayed behing to work on the duplexes. The team from South Carolina
started on the women's bathroom. Some of the teams worked with Paul on the dorms.
Another team of 5 people from Ohio arrived in the afternoon, bring our total to 87 people in 7 teams. We had a lot of rain and we didn't get to unload our food from the food bank. We had all the teams out in the field gutting homes or working on the food line. A few of the Mass. team went to Tammy's (our cook) home to start hanging sheetrock. The team from South Carolina set all the toilets and hung the stalls for the women's bathroom. So, we opened the bathroom for the women and let the boys use all the bathrooms at the corner of the building. The girls were happy.

Wednesday, the Ohio team went out to gut another home......makes four homes being
gutted. Uh oh.....the new bathroom clogged up so we had to open the girls toilets again. The South Carolina team worked all day trying to unclog the toilets....nothing worked with the snake......so tomorrow, they will bring in a professional to see if it can be blown out with a power blower......hopefully. A few people are coming in with spider bites and Denise is treating each one. So far, nothing serious. The Pawley Island team (So. Carolina) treated Barbara and I for dinner tonight. We had a great time getting away for a little time with this team. Just for the record, tomorrow, we will be taking a couple of days off from the Church.....going to the Marriott one night, going on a swamp tour, checking out some plantations and maybe seeing a movie.....just to get away. I will keep you posted.

Thursday....up early to unload a truck which the So. Carolina team purchased a lot of baby supplies and feminine products for the food ministry. Once we unloaded the truck with the forklift, checked with the teams before going off to their houses and checked to make sure if we could help anyone, Barbara and I took off on our little mini vacation. We had our leftover ribs from last night's dinner and left around 11:30am. We headed out to look for a plantation that we had heard about. It is Kenilworth Plantation. (http://www.sbpg.net/cannizaro060906.html) It was also really damaged during the storm. Water settled at about 7 feet and it severely damaged the first floor. They are in the process of restoring it. We met the owner, Mary, and she took us around and showed us the plantation. It was built in 1759 and has always had someone living in it. Mary and her deceased husband in the early 60s and raised five kids there. When originally built, it was constructed with no nails.....just pegs. It has three stories and just recently was accepted to the historic registry. On the way back, we stopped off and had a "stuffed snowball". Next, we headed northeast and went to Jesse Duplantes headquarters. We went on a tour of the offices and the Covenent Church. It was a little further out than I thought, therefore, the damage to their facilities was minimal. The place is very nice with a lot of pictures and statues around the facility. By this time, it was getting late in the day and we needed to get to the Marriott.

We checked into the Marriott and tried to decide where to eat dinner. Barbara has been a fan of the Food Network and especially Emmerille. He has a restaurant here in New Orleans.....in fact, he has three but only two was open. I called and we were able to get in at 5:30 and since it was only 5 blocks from the Marriott, we walked over. The restaurant is named Nola. It was excellant.....the sauces were what made the dinner. I had shrimp and grits and Barbara had the prime rib. We also had an appertizer of pita bread that had been brushed with EVOO and then sprinkled with garlic and baked until puffed up. It was delicious. For dessert, we ordered a bananna creme cake with homemade vanilla wafers. Everything was made on premises, even the pita bread. The meal was great, however, a little pricey ($95.00, including tax and tip).......and this is not the expensive one. After dinner, we decided to walk off a little of the meal so we walked around the French Quarter. We headed back to the Marriott and settled in for the night. The bed was a feather bed and it was very comfortable.

Friday.....the next morning, we slept in and went down for a breakfast buffet (included in the special price). The buffet was good...not great but good. We then headed out to Slidell, LA to go on a swamp tour. It was a 45 minute drive. We arrived and signed up and there were only 13 people on this tour instead of a full boat of 20. So, we were not cramped at all. OK....it was a swamp tour, not a alligator tour. We saw a lot of swamp and only one alligator. The gator was 10-foot long. The tour went back into the swamp and we saw a lot of cypress tree and knees, a few birds and a lot of water and swamp. The tour guide expected to see at least a dozen gators but he said the hot water and humidity drove them back into the swamp and down in the water. The was a little boring but had a lot of facts and some cajun humor. After the tour, we went into town and found the nearest Sonic and got a Diet Cherry Limeade......good! Then, we headed back toward the church and decided to catch the ferry across the Mississippi River to the West Bank and find a WalMart. We did just that and bought a few things and then had dinner at Taco Bell and since we brought all our laundry, we found a laundrymat and got that taken care of. Once our laundry was done, we headed back to the RV. When we opened the door, Boomer and Cuddles was all over us. A friend here, Steve, checked on the dogs several time a day and played with them so they didn't feel abandoned. Still, they were sure glad to see us. Well, we got back and, of course, a few problems. The new ladies bathroom was not working too well. However, I flushed each toilet and they all were working OK. I will see how it works out. Back to the RV and stow everything and it is nice to be "home". We returned to the church and found that 3 of the teams had left.

Saturday, sleeping in a little. We had a leisurely breakfast and then headed to the French Quarter. We heard about the Market there and wanted to see it. We walked around for awhile....it is HOT! We finally went into the St. Louis Catholic Church, a famous old church in Jackson Square. After looking at the church, we road the cable car to the Riverwalk Mall and looked around. It was now afternoon and we decided to eat. We had a Ceasar salad and a Calzone. It was good and filing. We need a dessert so we headed to the Cafe DeMonde to have a Benet......Yum. After stuffing ourselves, we went to another Mall to look for a couple of things. We found a shirt for Steve for watching after the dogs while we were gone. We also found a ceramic rooster for Keena as we had rooster borders around her kitchen. We finally run out of places to go so we headed back to the RV. Boomer and Cuddles were glad to see us. We checked in with the remaining team from Ohio, the rest had departed. They will leave tomorrow and we will not have another team until Wednesday. Got to run to get this uploaded.

Again........see you later.....Love you all,

DAD and MOM
Jerry & Barbara Northcutt

Sunday afternoon, July 16 - A team of 8 people arrived from Iowa. Pastor Phil, the leader, in on his second trip to the area but the first time to St. Bernard Parrish. Around 11pm, a team arrived from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Pastor Charley arrived with a total of 31 people. They will be the ones running the Vacation Bible School this week. They should have been here much earlier but they had two blow-outs and one flat. But they arrived in great spirits and ready to find a place to sleep.

Monday....start of a new week with a new crew. Pastor Randy arrived and gave out assignments after orientation. Since the VBS starts Tuesday, the main focus was to get the place cleaned up, especially the sanctuary where most of the classes will be done. About 11am, a team from Operation Blessing came in and wanted to help as much as possible. So, the Operation Blessing team started hanging sheetrock, the Pennsylvania team was also hanging sheetrock, the Iowa team was working on the ceiling grid with repair work and taping and mudding, the Michigan team was cleaning and getting ready for the VBS. A lot of work was done today because we had a lot of qualified workers. The workday ended around 7:30pm. We had a surprise when we turned on the water......There were a couple of place where the pipes were not sealed off and we had a little water. Both places were repaired and tomorrow, we will try it again. Late at night, a team of 8 from Indiana arrived to start work tomorrow.

Tuesday.....early up to go to the food bank to get a load of food. One of the Michigan team will be driving the truck each day to pick up the food. I went with him today to show him the way. The first day of VBS was a little disappointing. Not to many kids but it is early.

Wednesday.....Another day of VBS. Yesterday, we had 5 kids, today, we had 12...so it is growing. The kids are having fun at VBS....afternoon is water slide and play time. Food ministry goes on and on. The team from Iowa, a portion of the team from Michigan, the team from Pennsylvania and the team from Indiana went out to gut some homes. A skeleton crew was left with VBS and the food and kitchen work. Each of the gutting crews could not wait to get out and work. Some of them felt differently once they returned. The temp was high as well as the humidity and it is dirty work with white suits and boots inside the houses. A group from Operation Blessing came in and help with some of the drywall and mudding. Work is continuing on the offices.

Thursday.....another day of VBS with 24 kids with some of the previous missing. So, if everyone shows up on Friday, it should be a group of 30+.....The new ladies bathroom got the first coat of paint today....the toilets and lavatories were cleaned, ready to be set in tomorrow. The teams were out finishing the gutting of homes with some of the crews new so everyone could experience it. Another two runs to the Food Bank for food with a couple of pallets of frozen chicken....a good addition. All the teams will be leaving tomorrow but a new team will be coming in also. A lot of work is being accomplished. But a lot is work is needed......So, I am going to get this uploaded on the blog and I will start a new chapter tomorrow.

Again........see you later.....Love you all,

DAD and MOM
Jerry & Barbara Northcutt

Friday, July 7th.....we are getting to know the teams a little better. The team from Orange, CA is amazing....They are the hardest workers, with no complaints, that I have ever seen. I would take them anywhere in the world on any mission trip. They went out and started to demo a house. More of the same with food ministry, work on the church and some work on Pastor's house. Pastor and his AC man worked on the air conditioners....trying to get them working. The AC units were above the water and was not harmed. We just had to get power to them. They got power to two of the units and fired them up and YES YES YES...finally.....AIR CONDITIONING!

Saturday, a team of 11 arrived from Ventura, CA. A group of 8 men and 3 women.....Pastor Terry and his team. This is a team from a church of 25 people which almost half is here working. They are skilled is some construction work....sheetrock hanging, electrical, mudding and general carpenter work.....Hard workers. We did the normal food ministry and a little more work on the church. The Orange team continued to demo the home. Paul and Mike are concentrating on Pastor's house. They are ready to go home. There is a lot of repair work from previous team....bad painting and bad taping and mudding..all needs to be fixed. A team of three guys came from Florida and a young woman from Missouri. Denise Jones from our church in Corona, CA arrived mid-afternoon for a week. The AC man asked me to go up on the roof and flip the switch on the 3rd unit and it started right up...YES! Now the whole church is cool. It is wonderful.

Sunday....a great day.....The church is very cool. The team from Orange, CA led the praise and worship and they were very good. It was great. Pastor Randy was pleased and he was at his best, preaching a great sermon. We had around 200 people in church. After church, Barbara and I went to lunch with Pastor Randy, Jill and Colin. We went to the French Quarter and had Gumbo....it was good. After church, we went to Wal-Mart for a bunch of supplies. Barbara prepared the evening meal of Taco salad and Quesadillas. Everyone enjoyed them. The Orange team went out to finish their house...even on Sunday....they are truly hard workers. Early in the evening, a team of 21 arrived from Oregon...all young people with their youth pastor. At 1:30am, a team of 29 arrived from Austin Texas...the same church another team was with us last week. So, we are ready to start the week with a large amount of volunteers.

Monday, start of another week with approximately 80 volunteers....some skilled and a lot unskilled but willing to work. Sundays and Mondays, the food ministry is not open so it is the time for teams to work on the church or go out and demo homes. We started on getting four rooms ready to sheetrock. Pastor Randy wanted to get a women's and men's bathrooms inside the church operational. Paul and Justin worked at Pastor's house to finish up all the taping and texturing of the walls. Barbara, Denise and Wendy is at Pastors house to finish the painting. Some of the teams went out and started demo-ing some houses. This really brings the destruction home to the volunteers as they can see the force of the hurricane and the flooding in this area.

Tuesday, is a busy day as the food ministry starts. All the teams are either demo-ing a house, building in the church, giving out food and clothing, going to the food bank to load the food and unload at the tent for distribution. Each day, you can see more and more changes to the church. We are still fighting with the generators, keeping them running. Each day, we get closer to having electrical power in the sanctuary. The local electrician offers his work labor free and charges only for the material.....a God sent man. As a side note, this man will not accept work outside the parrish as he believes as Pastor Randy to help the local St. Bernard Parrish people only. The teams are beginning to settle in and know what is needed. The team of 11 people from Ventura is stepping up and really becoming a very big assest to the work here. They are taking a lot of initiative and really getting a lot of things done. The Pastor, Terry, is good a general carpentry skills and is helping his team learn new skills. The ladies of this team are becoming quite good a taping and mudding sheetrock. Jess and Joe stepped up and are doing the truck driving and fork-lift operation to keep the food distribution going. The other team members were equally great at working. This team started and finished two new classroom.....sheetrocking, taping and mudding.

Wednesday.....a sad day.....our friends from Orange, CA were leaving. We will definitely miss them. But the other teams stepped up and picked up the slack. We are now working on three additional classrooms and just beginning on four offices plus the two bathrooms in the church that Paul and Justin is working on with help from the Ventura team. One of the team members from Ventura is an electritian and has been going to Pastor's house to fix a lot of electrical problems that was a result of some volunteers that didn't quite get it right. Again, Barbara is out working the food ministry. Pastor has sorta given me (Jerry) the responsibility of overseeing the church work while Mike is running the field work plus the duplex effort and Paul is doing what he does best. However, each day, Pastor has a meeting with all the teams to give out assignments so we are just directing their efforts.

Thursday, a continuation of the work. We are starting to have problems with the generators. Randy, the electrician has stated he will have lights in the sanctuary powered by the in-house electricity. Each of the teams have now had the demo experience. Work continues on the new classrooms and new bathrooms. The heat and humidity is getting worse and is starting to wear us down. However, we do have AC in the church. It is hard to believe that people are now complaining that it is too cold and want blankets!.....They should have been here a couple of weeks ago. Nolan and Denise left today for a 10-day vacation and Denise put Barbara in charge of the Food ministry while they were gone. I will be driving the truck for food and running the fork-lift unless someone comes in with those skills. It has been approximately 45 years since I ran a fork-lift so I will have to practice.

Friday, the start of our third week.....the time is passing quickly. We will now lose two teams, the team from Austin, TX (this morning) and the team from Ventura, CA (this afternoon). Again, we will really miss them and the work they do. A new team from Alabama, a group of six guys consisting of some that were here two weeks ago. They immediately started sheetrocking and became a immediate asset. Now the number of voluteers is dwindling. Tomorrow, the team from Oregan will be leaving so our 80+ people will reduce to less than 20 for Saturday and Sunday. Today, a team of eight arrived from Pennsylvania. I started working with the fork-lift and it started coming back to me. We also found out we would be having Vacation Bible School next week so we had to print flyers and distribute them. A different group will be coming in to run the VBS but we need the classrooms finished that we are working on.

It is now Saturday and we are working with a skeleton crew. The team from Oregan left this morning....they were good workers and we will miss them. A semi came in with a load of mops, buckets, brooms and cleaning supplies to distribute. Also, on Thursday, a group brought in a load of new clothing to distribute. Things were a little hectic but some of the construction work is continuing along with the electrical work. We do have lighting in the sanctuary now...PTL. Don't get the impression that the church is getting completed.......there is a lot of work being done but there is a lot of work yet to be done. But Pastor Randy is being encourgaged daily with all the work being completed. We are now preparing the church for Sunday service, setting up chairs, cleaning the areas and working the facility. Paul is texturing the women's bathroom and it will be ready to have the toilets installed next week. This finishes up the week.

Sunday.....today is like the other Sundays....getting ready for church....had to print words for worship, make transparancies, copy songs on a CD and set up the kids room for video. Typical Sunday morning :-) - all is good here. Tommy Tinney made a surprise visit here today and greeted the congregation. For those that don't know, Tinney paid Pastor Randy's salary for the first several months after the hurricane. Pastor preached a good sermon. We are beginning to understand the accents. We had lunch Deanies Seafood restaurant and had the platter - fried shrimp - fried softshell crab - fried oyrsters - fried crawfish ball - coleslaw and crab-boiled potatoes. I can't remember when we have eaten so much fried food......but it was so good. Just back from Wal-Mart for some misc things and ready to relax. So, I will send this off.

Again........see you later.....Love you all,

DAD and MOM
Jerry & Barbara Northcutt

Here is a picture of the Orange team with Barbara and I.













Here is a picture of the Ventura team.














Here is a picture of "our kids". They are doing so well in the RV each day. They stay in the RV while we work and are doing real good. We come in from time to time to play with them and talk to them. They have adjusted very well to this life. We go out most evenings and walk with them so they can get some "play time".

Pastor Randy abd the raffle of gifts.
The water slide.......
This is the "Foam Pit.....The kids loved it.

Wednesday, more of the same.....breakfast, then work, break for lunch, more work, dinner and then relax. The girls finished all the painting they could do. Yuri and Alan finished the tile grouting. Ryan continued to work at the church with the electrician. I did some cleaning up. Nathan and A.J. continued to work on the duplex. Kim, Brittney and Nathan arrived at 4:30pm at the New Orleans airport. Cheryl made us some mexican food for dinner. Kim and the kids came back to the RV and slept with us.

Thursday.....the girls went to the church to work the food line. Alan and I put up the Pastor's master bedroom's ceiling fan. Yuri went to the duplex to lay tile in the kitchen and bathroom. Nathan and A. J. continued doing whatever they were doing. Ryan was at the church working the electrical. Back to Cheryl and Greg's house for dinner. Greg and Cheryl are tremendous and humble in their hospitality for us. They have been feeding us almost every day and night....and we are very appreciative.

Friday.....more of the same....the girls at the food line.....Yuri and Alan at the duplex working on the tile work...Jerry at Pastor's house working on the light in Colin's bathroom. Ryan working electrical....A.J. with Nathan. For dinner, Barbara N. fixed a caseroule for the group and took it to Pastor's house.

Saturday, more and less of the same......girls at the food line....Alan and Yuri at the duplex...A.J. with Nathan..Jerry had sewer problems on the RV and worked on it most of the day....Ryan met his grandfather to visit for the weekend....Saturday night, we had sandwiches...A. J. saw a aligator not too far from Pastor's house along the side of the road near the water's edge.....Donny, Chase and Norm Ford arrived at 9:30pm completing our team....back to Pastor's house to drop off Donny, Chase and Norm......early to bed for Sunday service next day.

Sunday.....it started with Pastor arriving and didn't know how to get the lights and sound system on because of the electrical changes by Ryan (with his grandfather). We finally figured it out. Paul Remick arrived with his trailer that has all the gifts for the July 4th celebration. Whew!!!!! Church was great.....Pastor was at his best with his "aggressive" preaching. After church, one of the locals, Steve took us around to see more of the destruction. We saw a semi trailer on a Burger King....a 60 ft shrimp boat over 8 miles inland in the middle of a street. The shrimp boat was close to a levee but the shrimp boat needs at least 8 feet of water to float. So, if the boat came over the levee, then the water was over eight feet higher than the levee. We saw some houses with the front blown out from the force of the water. We saw a church that had the the doors blown out, the pews all rolled up to the front BUT the floor to ceiling stained glass was untouched except for a small hole (3 inch hole). Quite impressive. After the tour, we all went to Zeas restaurant for a dinner together. A side trip to WalMart for a few things and then to our respective homes for a good night's sleep.

Monday.....we were all at the church to get ready for the next day's July 4th celebration. There was a lot of work to do.....inventory all the gift and prizes....Kim, Alan, Wendy and Steve went shopping for food, popcorn machine, basketball goal and the surround sound set for the theater (GodMan from Book Of Hope will be showing). It took them most of the day due to the holiday shopping and lack of stores open. A team from Austin, Texas with 3 girls and 1 guy arrived around 6pm. We all went to Pastor's house where Marina and Barbara S. prepared tacos. Good! Our group had a small meeting making assignments for the next day. Back to the church to meet the next team coming in. A team of 11 young college-age kids from a Korean church in Orange, CA. A small meeting with the other teams to explain what we were doing on the 4th and some assignments for them.

THE BIG DAY! JULY 4TH. It started slow....blowing up the water slide...putting together the basketball goal...setting up the foam pit (a 25 by 25 foot blow-up with soap bubbles...the kids loved it)...marking the cake walk area.....setting up the dart toss at balloons....setting up all the prize tables....and the nails booth, the tattoo table, and salvation bracelet table, the popcorn machine, the theater, including a X-Box machine for the kids and preparing a place for a snowcone trailer. It took us until 11am to become fully functional. WOW! We had a great day. The kids loved the waterslide and foam pit. The adults loved the raffles where we gave away CD players, stylish designer purses, toys, basketvalls, dolls, an IPOD donated by Norm Ford, candy and lot of other miscellaneous items. We had raffles for the kids. The dart toss was a big hit. The basketball shoot was fun and everyone enjoyed the popcorn. The big draw was the free BBQ. Norm Ford stepped up and cooked the hamburger and hot dogs. We served over 400 sandwiches. The day was a complete success. OK, the weather was the best for this event. There was a cloud cover for almost all of the day and no rain. Once the event was over and the majority of the place was cleaned up....the sprinkles started. Such a great day. Everyone did a good job. Donny and Kim and their family left at 5:00pm....Alan tooked them.

Wednesday.....Alan, Ryan, Sandy and Marina flew out at 7:00am. Yuri and A.J. flew out at 2:30pm. All is left of our team is Jerry, Barbara N., Barbara S. and Wendy. Today was a kinda of rest and getting back into the "groove". I work with getting the place picked up a little. Paul continued with getting the place ready for the water heaters and washer and dryer. Paul and his son, Justin, is here for the summer. He feels he needs to get the dorm area ready for volunteers. Barbara N. worked on the food line teaching the new ones the "ropes". Barbara S. and Wendy stayed at Pastor's house cleaning up after the group. They will be moving out of the house and into the trailer behind Gregg and Cheryl's house. Lunch was good......the afternoon brought thunderstorms and RAIN! Lot of rain.....it was a "gullywasher". So, the traffic at the food line was a little off in the afternoon. Tonight, we added a new person..Beth from Missouri who will be here for two weeks.

Thursday......back on a normal cycle......of the food ministry and work around the church.....Off to the wireless place to get this on the internet.

Again........see you later,

DAD and MOM
Jerry & Barbara Northcutt

PS....Willsend pictures later of some of the activities

2010 raffle
2024 nails
2059 waterslide