Sunday, March 31, 2024
Happy Easter everyone! It was a beautiful spring day in Alabama, perfect for Sunrise Service, church and family gatherings and we enjoyed it all. As is customary for Alabama Easters, our Dogwood trees are in full bloom as well as the Red Buds, and Native Azaleas. This past week you could almost sit and watch the colors change. The mountain above the camp is a multitude of shades of green. Beautiful.
We began our NOMADS work at Sumatanga Camp and Conference Center last Sunday afternoon with our usual get acquainted meeting. We are a small group of six, Sharon and Gary leading, and new to us NOMADS Pam and Dennis, and the two of us. We always enjoy working with Sharon and Gary and it’s been fun getting to know Pam and Dennis. We all work together well so it should be three weeks of fun work. Our highest priority work was the demolition of the bathrooms in three of the Pool Camp cabins, getting them ready for another group to come in and expand and remodel them. This was some heavy-duty demo requiring jack hammers, sledgehammers and strong backs. We completed two of the cabins and have probably completed half the work on the third. We are pleased with the amount of work accomplished last week, because we had thought it would probably take two to three weeks to demo them all. We hope to be finished sometime Tuesday, but a lot will depend on how hard it is to get the last furnace out of the cabin. The furnaces are very old and very heavy.
Each workday, the camp spoils us with a great lunch. One day this week, we had a new to some of us, delightful turnip green soup and now we all have a copy of the recipe. The entire team worshiped together at Lester Memorial for Good Friday. It was, of course, a somber, but very meaningful service. It’s been a great Holy Week ending in wonderful worship on this beautiful Easter. Today, we attended Sunrise Service, worship service and Sunday School at our church followed by a delicious lunch with our cousins on Pine Mountain. The rest of the team stayed for Sunrise Service at the camp. Hope you all enjoyed your day and kept the true meaning of the day in your hearts. Thank you, Jesus, for your suffering, death, and resurrection. May we live our lives for You.
RVing With a Purpose 
Awesome report! Barb and I can’t say that we get to read all the reports you send – in part because we also dabel in the reports of others of other teams – and in part because of God’s nudge into NOMADS retirement wound up being a Call to partner with our daughter, son-in-law, and their 5 kids. We feel very blessed to be a part of God’s new call to provide family support. The 5 kids (4 are adoptees) range in age from 9 to 14, and despite the deep troubles the adopted ones have had to deal with. we are greatly blessed to be a part of seeing them heal and grow.
Keep sending your missives and pictures! As to the later, they remind us of some of the challenging demo/renovation work we’ve on on a number of Camps!
Prayers, Blessings, and Peace
Mike and Barb Druck
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