Hey Everyone,
Happy to give you another fantastic update! This morning the other group that didn't go to the Food Pantry yesterday went today at First Fruit Ministries. It was another great day. It was so cool to hear all the kids talk about today how much they enjoyed working at the food pantry. It was such a neat experience for everyone. So basically how it worked, is everyone checked in and filled out some paperwork, and then based on the number of people they had in their family, they got a certain amount of food.
Everyone gets one package of meat, a couple of "sides" to go along with it, as well as some milk, yogurt, a dessert, some bread, and some fresh fruits and vegetables. It was so cool because people don't take more than they need. They only take what they will eat. It kind of shocked many of us because we kind of expected them to take as much as they could. But they really didn't. Everyone was so nice and so grateful for us being there to serve the past few days.
We also continued to work at our 3 construction sites today. At one of our construction sites, they replaced all of the floor joists in the bedroom and kitchen. Our second construction site worked on some flooring in the kitchen, did some yard work and went under the house to replace a floor joist. Our third construction site also worked on some flooring between the bedroom and closet. They also did some exterior painting, they removed a window, applied framing for a new window, sealed the framing and installed the window.
Sadly, we only had 11 kids at Vacation Bible School today. However, we did have one new kid at VBS, so it is always good to see us have new children at VBS. Regardless, our students have done such a fantastic job this week being flexible in everything we have done. And they have remained up-beat and positive through all we have done.
Tonight, we had our first block party. We partnered with First Fruit Ministries. They often do what they call "street feeds" in the week. So we are kind of took the place of that tonight. We had a line of people waiting to get food when we began cooking! We served over 280 hot dogs at tonight's block party!! So it was a great turnout! We also had sno-cones, popcorn, chips and drinks.
Now we are cleaning up the block party and getting ready to head back to debrief and talk about our day. Thank you all again for your continued prayers and support. We can't believe tomorrow is our last day of mission work and we come home on Friday!!
In Christ,
Todd Handell
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