Month: April 2021

Monday, April 5, 2021

Yesterday was a beautiful, spring day in Tatum.  We went to Bennettsville (five miles south of Tatum) to First UMC for their sunrise service.  It was a rather cool, outdoor service, with coffee and snacks afterwards. We always try to attend outside services Easter morning and it was a good service.   Everyone was friendly and we met several people and were able to share the NOMADS story with them. When we got back to Fred, we watched our home church live stream Easter service and then attended the 11:00 service with the team at Main Street UMC, 5 miles north in McColl, SC.  Love Easter Sunday!! For us it’s the most important and meaningful day of the year.

Today we had devotion at 8:00 across the street in an old church building that is now owned by the town.  They allow NOMADS to use the building while we are here.  Since we didn’t have a team meeting yesterday, this morning also served as our orientation meeting.  All the team members already new each other and had worked together previously.  This week we have a seven member team in 4 RVs.  We are working on a small house that is about 100 years old and back in the day was a “mill” house. It is in McColl, close enough to Tatum for us to return to the RVs for lunch.  Last week the team did some inside work and removed the back porch and began the rebuild.  Today we began by installing OSB flooring (to have flooring installed later) and installed the last three studs.  Then we installed the siding and insulated the exterior walls.  The door and lock and ceiling light were installed.  It was another beautiful day.

Saturday, April 3, 2021

First, we should let you know that our house was fine during last week’s storms.  Max repaired our driveway a day or two before we left and there was not time for it to get packed so it is badly washed.  More work to do when we get back home.

The storm gave us two extra days at the Gulf so we enjoyed those days.  We did some extensive walking on trails and the beach.  The storms had the Gulf very rough with double red flags flying but the beach was still great.  Sunday was our day for our second vaccine.  Walmart had a great system in place and it was again quick and easy.  Thanks, Walmart in Atmore.  We celebrated our second vaccine with Royal Red Shrimp.  Monday was mostly a rest day.  Max visited the eagles again.  We also did a short beach walk.  Tuesday was a travel day as we began our way to Tatum, SC.  We stopped at Anne’s brother’s for the evening.  He took us out on the golf cart/multi-purpose trails that are everywhere in Peachtree City.  We saw beautiful homes with wonderful landscaping/trees in full bloom.  We went to one of the lakes for sunset but unfortunately the clouds moved in and there wasn’t much to see.  It didn’t matter because the visit was what we really wanted.  We shared a wonderful dinner and breakfast, timing our departure to avoid Atlanta rush hour.  It was an uneventful travel day and we arrived at Randy and Debra’s mid- afternoon.  We then had couple of days to spend with them.  Debra and Anne visited while Randy and Max did a few RV maintenance items.  We also got to celebrate David’s birthday – glad we were there for that.

Today we arrived in Tatum, where we will be for the next few weeks, working to repair homes damaged in one of the many hurricanes.  We don’t know much about this area but look forward to making new friends and helping the residents of the area.  Thank you Lord for safe travel.  Please be in prayer for all the services tomorrow as we celebrate the most holy day of Easter.