Wow….where did the day go? We attended church this morning with our brothers and sisters of Port Sulphur Baptist Church. Lucky for us, it just happened to be the Sunday that all the church comes together after the worship service to have lunch together. Baptist pot luck is some of the best pot luck and things are no different here!! Although I would be willing to bet that there haven’t been too many pot luck dinners served in our neck of the woods that included “rabbit”! No, I did not try it…..but I hear it tastes a lot like chicken!

After lunch, Rick Kesterson, Construction Coordinator, took us to some of our work sites for the week. Now, remember…..we are a small team. There are only 5 of us. Rick took us to four different houses to show what needed to be done. There would have been a fifth, but we were too late for the ferry and wouldn’t have gotten back in time for the evening activities at the church. Here are just a few things that are on our “to-do” list: House #1 – sand, stain and poly the wood floors in the entire house. House #2 – finish trim work, install thresholds, storm doors, metal shelving in the closets, caulk in the kitchen, some wall repair and ceiling repair. House #3 – sand, stain and poly wood floors, install storm doors, build and install countertops in kitchen, install light box over kitchen sink. House #4 – sand, stain and poly wood floors, finish hanging kitchen cabinets, finish trim on countertops……That’s just what I can remember when I was making the list after we returned to the church. Needless to say, our team of five will become two teams. I think Rick has become used to the idea that when a team comes from HRBC, what needs to be done gets done. So, we will start out bright and early in the morning and get to it! Don and Jim will go to house #2 to start the finish trim work, while Laura, Chris and Bob will start the wood floor job in house #1.

This evening , PSBC sponsored a “Date Night” with a free pizza dinner and then showed the movie “Fireproof”. Our team provided the childcare for those with little ones so they could watch the movie uninterrupted. There were about 6 couples from outside that church that attended along with a few church members. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and wanted to know when the next one would be! PSBC is considering offering a monthly movie night to the community with some of those being designated as the special “Date Night” movies. One man who is a member of a local Catholic church asked if PSBC could show the “Fireproof” movie again soon so he could invite some of his friends. He said he knew they would all benefit from seeing a movie with such a powerful message. God is Good!!

Well, time for bed because tomorrow is a work day and we have a lot of it!! Keep us all in your prayers as we work to help put at least four more families in homes for the first time in almost 4 years! Praise God!!