Only 2 Days Left

Where has the month of February gone? We had looked forward to getting out of Indiana and starting work. Now, the month is nearly gone and it has gone very quickly. Tuesday is our last working day at Blue Springs Conference Center.

This has been a very predictable month for our work. What we were doing on the first day, it appears that we will doing on the last day. The men have painted the whole project the interior of a dorm, painted and hung numerous doors and, to finish, will be painting some overhang on another dorm. The women have done room cleaning, laundry etc the whole month long. Since they had a small group of guests here this past weekend we will probably have that to do again the next couple of days. They currently have no paid staff to do housecleaning and it is all volunteer at this point.

Since we have experienced a very cool month in northern Florida (yes, we have been told Indiana is worse!), we haven’t spent as much time outside interacting with other members of our team. However, for the first time since we have joined RVICS, we will be moving to our next project with the exact same couples that are now a part of this team. One member of our group lost her sister this past week. They left early but will be rejoining us soon. It will be hard to say goodbye to the COM group that we will leave behind also. We have joined together for some of our activities and the women have worked have all worked together daily. One of the COM ladies commented that it was going to be lonely around here when RVICS left.

One of the great bonuses of doing what we do are the people that we meet along the way. Roberto is one of those people. For the past 8 years he has done maintenance at the camp. We had kind of gotten to know him but last night he and his wife invited all 16 of us into their very small house for a sit down meal. What great people they are with a huge testimony---growing up in Porto Rico with drugs, witchcraft etc--- and to be the outstanding Christians they are today is a miracle! In fact, with the exception of one brother the whole extended family are Christians. We’d have to say that was one of the high lights of our time at this camp.

It always hard to move to a new location but we have new and exciting adventures ahead. On Thursday, we will pulling out of Florida and heading north about 250 miles to Shocco Springs Conference Center in Talladega, Alabama.

Thanks again for your prayers.