Day 4

Hearing about the many prayers from family and friends in Michigan is warming all our hearts. Each day there is a morning devotion to get our hearts and heads "in the game" and on God. This morning I gave the devotion and God is so good to give me strength and comfort because I have never done this before. My focus was on Romans 8:26, how God created us all and even when we have struggles/weakness the Holy Spirit helps us and that God always works for the good of those who love him. This extends to the fact that it's not always easy because we are weak and we don't always do life gracefully but when we are obedient, like Joshua and the Israelites, and we love him he uses us for good. He uses us and gives us the strength and courage to get through the struggles if we keep stepping forward and follow him in obedience.

It was another of day of hard work. At Miss Stephanie's house some of our team worked on putting up siding, caulking the siding, clearing the back yard from debris, hanging drywall and clearing off the back fence from vines and CRAZY overgrowth. The family in the home said that after the vines and growth were removed it was the first time they had seen the fence since Katrina.

Another team completed their job at Miss Pat's. The job consisted of tearing off old siding, hanging plywood, putting up tyvek and then putting on hardy plank siding. They sided almost the entire length of a shot gun house. Most of the neighborhood houses in New Orleans are called shot gun houses because they are about 80 by 12 feet long with doors separating each room (which is about 10 feet long). Each room has a door on each end with all the doors on the same side of the house. It's called a shot gun house because you could shoot a shot gun from end of the house to the other and it would go in the front door and out the back without hitting anything.

The last job site of the day they painted what they had previously drywalled, fixed the floor joists and put all luan flooring down. This was a home whose kitchen had to be gutted entirely by our team and then prepped for flooring, cabinets, etc. A kitchen remodel from beginning to end.

The end of the evening consisted of a sharing worship with song and then where and how we had seen God that week. Ahhhh, it was terrrific.