September 30, 2024 – God always provides

Hurricane Helene visited us on Friday, but it was not too bad – just some wind gusts and a little bit of rain.  We called off the workday, but the sponsoring church blessed us with a wonderful lunch at the local library.  The weekend was good  – with some time to catch up with some friends that we hadn’t seen since last year.   We even got to see a first …. a robot delivering drinks at a local restaurant.   The middle of farm country would be the last place you’d expect to see this … but it was pretty cool.

The 5:30AM alarm on Monday comes very early :-).  The morning routine is getting a little easier, so it doesn’t feel as rushed getting ready.   When we arrived at the job site, we were able to take a look the completed foam insulated walls that were done on Friday.  This is the first year that we are using blown in insulation so we were very curious as to how it would finish.

We also saw a very full load of sheet rock that needed to be unloaded, both 12 foot and 8 foot lengths. 

It would have taken our small six person team a long time and a lot of effort to unload these heavy sheets.  After the pastor shared a wonderful devotional this morning, we got to talking about the big job ahead of us.  She asked if it would be helpful if some high school students could come and help unload.  Well … of course our answer was YES!   She made one call to the principle, and within 10 minutes, there were about 8 students at the job site (the high school is on the same block).   The students came from PE class – so lifting sheetrock was their lifting weights today :-).   With everyone working together, we were able to get all the sheetrock unloaded before 10AM.   God really does provide us with everything we need!

After unloading the sheetrock, we enjoyed a special snack today.  One of the team members baked some apple and banana bread to celebrate Gene’s birthday.   Then, it was back to work.  After setting up scaffolding and figuring out how to cut roof angles on the siding, we made some progress on the south side of the house.   I was on cutting duty, and Joe had the measuring/installing job.

After a productive day at work and a relaxing happy hour, the team met at a local restaurant to continue Gene’s birthday celebration.   We all have so much to be thankful for.  God is good!