Just Like Home

The first week here at Blue Springs Conference Center flew by. I guess that we are having fun!! There wasn’t the great variety of work that we sometimes find on projects but we certainly are benefiting the center. Since times are hard, the non-profit organizations sometimes are the first to be cut from giving. That is true here. The conference center was notified this week that the whole budge for the Florida Baptists has been cut $4 million. Therefore, they have a very limited staff at this time.

Sharon and the ladies have been working housekeeping this past week. She is totally experienced since she has been doing it most of her lifetime. All the housekeeping staff (at the present) is volunteers. Since they had 200 Fellowship of Christian Athletes here this past weekend, the same work will be there this morning. Don and the men have painting all week long. They are making progress and will probably finish the building sometime this week.

This past week was extremely cold here with a low of 22 degrees one morning. We had hoped that we had left all of that kind of “stuff” when we left Indiana. However, by the end of the week, we were no longer freezing and were actually able to build a campfire one afternoon/evening and enjoyed some time outside.

Yesterday, we ended (or would it be began) our week with a visit to a church we will never forget. The Dothan Community Church (Alabama) is a place that RVICS have worked on for 3 different projects and we have heard that it is a special place. We can verify that it is. Dr. W. Charles Lewis (black man) after graduating from DTS felt the call to begin a new church in this town and asked a fellow graduate, Chester McFarland a white man, to join him in this venture. This church is definitely alive and growing. We were welcomed like we have never had a welcome before.

Thank you for thinking of us this past week. Please continue to do so.