Today was quite a blessing to all of us involved in the Hyaets mission this week.

In the morning, we continued all of our home repair work including fixing bathrooms, priming windows, and replacing a sidewalk.  Others picked vegetables from the Hyaets garden, made flyers for the cookout, prepared food to freeze, and went grocery shopping for the cookout.  The afternoon was full of more of the same.  By late afternoon, we had our bouncy castle up, popcorn machine going, and grillers preparing hot dogs and burgers.  Neighbors joined us from all around and together we shared food and fun.  The evening ended with silly songs on the front porch.

That’s the list of accomplishments for the day, but that doesn’t completely tell our story.  We are proud and grateful for the tasks we were able to achieve this weekend.  However, our story is also told in the relationships built over a basketball game, a “Simon Says” game, sitting on the porch talking about videos, a surprise hug from a mother grateful someone cared about her child, working alongside our brothers and sisters in Christ, and other countless moments along the way.

We hope that in many ways we reflected God’s love this weekend, but we are humbled and grateful for the ways we saw God this weekend.

See photos below from today’s events and follow this link for more pics from our adventure:  http://www.hrbcrichmond.org/mod/gallery/view-gallery.php?gallery_id=250