Wednesday

Today was the designated fun day. Some of us went to the baseball game, some went to the Mall of America and a couple of us decided to go with the other church group to a job site. We worked at Olives house drywalling the basement. olive is a lovely lady who has spent most of her life taking care of others what money she earns has been given to benefit others. Because of this, she doesn't have the funds to pay someone to do the work on her own house. We had a couple of the men who are contractors. A couple of the ladies have worked on these types of workgroups several times before, so they jumped right in and knew what they were doing. Those of us from St Paul were new to drywalling. Happily, they had power drills for us to put drywall screw in. Someone before us had started the drywall job and they worked very hard to use every piece of drywall - small and large. I was impressed by the creative piecing together - kind of like a patchwork quilt. It became clear to me later as we were taping and mudding all those patched together seams - that maybe all those sweet little pieces were not so cool after all. The guys had obviously worked together before, because they put their heads together and worked out solutions for the job. They were all very patient explaining and instructing those of us who are less experienced. It was really a productive day. The St Paul workgroup came back to camp, cleaned up and met up with the baseball and mall groups at the food court for dinner. We all talked about the day and the baseball group showed off their sunburns. Later, we came back to the camp for worship time. We met outside in the worship area, with lots of bugspray. We sing songs by torchlight, listen to devotions and pray together. It's a special time together. Thursday is back to workgroups for everyone! Some will paint at the parsonage, some will go to Bob's, some will finish drywalling at Olives and some will work at a thriftstore.