Builders For Christ - Monday

Monday - A long day,but not as hot as Tallahassee - 90d! Today was an organizational day, and we started early with the wonderful free breakfast bar at the Drury Inn at 6 am. Linda and some of the kitchen staff started at 6:30 on site with coffee, juice and breakfast bars. Work starts at 7am, when workers arrive and are assigned jobs. About 8:30 there's an on-site breakfast with eggs cooked to order, grits, oatmeal, biscuits, bacon, juice, and coffee. There are about 70 workers - FBC Tallahassee; Thomasville Rd BC; Jacob's Well Church, Eau Claire, WI; Peachtree City, GA; and our hosts, FBC Monroe OH. Today work was done on the roof, vinyl siding, drywall hangers, and duct work preparation. Welsey Head and Paula Link are working off site at a house owned by a church member who relies on the rental income as well.
Meanwhile, the kitchen crew sorted the items donated by WOM Group 1 in a kitchen shower last May, went through refrigerators and freezers, and "iced down" bottles of water for the workers. The kitchen crew had a devotional time, with Carol Ann Boydston sharing a humorous story about the importance of unity among believers. Lunch was sandwiches of cold cuts and "captain's soup", chips, fruit, tea and water with "pink fluff" and brownies for dessert. In case you didn't know, we eat really well on Builders, thanks to Linda Smith and her crew. I got to share our VBS songs, "I'm Being Built Up" and "He's Been Working on Me" after lunch in our short devotional time, and Richard shared an interpretation of Psalm 23.
Preparing meals for 70 people requires not only planning, but also food shoppping, and I went with Linda to Kroger's (they take Winn-Dixie cards) and a store that sells in bulk. The Kroger's here is like Wal-Mart and sells furniture and clothing. Work went on until 6 pm, when everyone came back together for dinner under the tent, spaghetti, lasagna, salad, and John Chafin's banana pudding (prepared by Paula Chafin and Glenda Schaumbacher). Thankfully, the host church ladies are doining clean-up, which lets us leave by about 7 pm.
Some folks are downstairs now playing cards or talking, and some are resting. Ben, Wesly, Mayfair, and Jim got a few minutes in the jacuzzi after dinner