Author: rvingwithapurpose

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

This morning we had some sun but mostly gray skies. This afternoon and evening we have had some rain and areas just north of us, Baker and Zachary, have been under a tornado warning. One of the houses we are working on is in Baker. We have not heard of any damage and are praying everyone is safe.

This morning’s devotion was brought by Joe and he did a great job making us think about what it really looks like to be faithful. Thanks, Joe.

We then all headed back to the homes we have been working in all week. To start the day Max and Joe continued to work on transition strips. This has been a difficult process due to needing to drill into the concrete slab. We have been through several masonry bits. Max had to trim the laminate to fit the transitions because we didn’t know what type of transitions we would be using when we put down the laminate. By the end of the day all the transition strip brackets had been installed. Anne and Charlie began and finished the day installing base board. They also did some caulking today.

 

The folks at Groom almost completed the kitchen cabinets. They have just a little trim to install above the wall cabinets. There is just a little more flooring to install and then some baseboard. Wish we could have finished them both but that was not to be.

Tonight the Louisiana Conference treated the team to a crawfish boil. We also had the corn and potatoes to go with that and the team provided salads, dessert and bake beans. We had a feast! Best of all we had time to visit with Laraine, Darryl, Charles, and the case managers. Thanks, Laraine for arranging everything. It has been such a pleasure to get to know everyone and work with them. We hope God will bring us together again – but not due to another disaster.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Weather-wise today was the same as yesterday. Really nice day. We didn’t even see a gray cloud. The rest of the week is predicted to be a real wash out so maybe the predictions will be wrong.

Virginia had our devotion today and used Philippians 4:13 as the basis and then read us “The Quilt”. Virginia is a quilter so this reading was special to here. We all agreed it’s special. If you haven’t read it you should.

 

After devotion we all headed back to our regular assignments, Max, Anne, Joe and Charley to Norwich and Gary, Sharon, Bob and Virginia to Groom Drive. Progress was made in all locations. Charley and Joe were excited to finish the laminate flooring in the master bedroom. It looks very good. We also completed the door installation of all the swinging doors. We are waiting for the materials needed to hand the bi-folds. We also started on the floor transition strips. Since we were planning the Bible presentation tonight we also tried to clean and straighten up a bit. Over at Groom they installed the counter tops and finished the flooring in the large closet. Both houses are looking good.

This afternoon Gary did an interview with a reporter for Channel 2, Baton Rouge. One of the church members called them to tell them about the good work the NOMADS have been doing. We will see if it is on the 10:00 news tonight. Hope so. After the interview we went over to Norwich to meet our home owner and make our Bible presentation. We had a nice visit and the rest of the team got to see the house as well. It was another great day.

Monday, May6, 2019

Today was another bright sunny, blue sky day. Only three more to go.

We met with Darrel before team meeting to discuss priorities on both houses. For the Norwich house he wants us to just continue and complete items in the same order we would normally do them. We are not going to do the plumbing or the installation of the appliances. Therefore when we got to Norwich Drive, Charley and Joe got started on the laminate flooring in the master bedroom and Anne worked on getting the master bath ready for texture. Hoping the texture people will be back tomorrow. Max returned to working on the door installation. By the end of the day only two rows of flooring remain to be installed. Charley and Joe have done a great job. Hopefully the bathroom is ready for texture and most of the doors are in place. Just a couple left along with some bi-fold doors.

 

At about 3:30 today the Lowe’s truck arrived at Norwich with the homeowner’s refrigerator. She has been trying to get a refrigerator installed for two weeks now. The first one she bought would not go through any door in the house. Today they brought another refrigerator that we hoped would make the clearance. It did not. Therefore, just as we had to do with the roll-in shower, we had to remove the back door, and door frame in order go get the refrigerator in the house. We reinstalled the door to the point we could secure the house for the night and we will complete the re-installation tomorrow. Hopefully, there will be no more door removals this week. After everything was secure, we hurried home to get ready for dinner.  Francis Asbury congregation provided us with a wonderful time of food and fellowship tonight with a fried chicken dinner with all the fixen’s.  We had to say our good byes tonight as we will not see these precious friends again before we leave.

We are making progress. We will accomplish what God wills this week.

Sunday, May 5, 2019

As expected, Saturday was a rainy day. The rain began about 5:00 am and continued until early afternoon. There were times of very heavy rain and there were tornado warnings for parishes to our south and east but things never got bad here at Francis Asbury. We were glad we decided to do our shopping and errands on Friday. By mid-afternoon the sun was out and that’s when our new team members arrived, Joe and Charley. They are relatively new NOMADS and this was our first time to meet them. We look forward to working with them and getting to know them better.

Today, of course we went to church here at Francis Asbury. During the announcement time pastor David surprised us all by announcing to the church that the Bishop had made the appointment for their pastor for next year and that it was Rev. Anne Armstrong. We all got a good laugh at that announcement and he was just thanking Anne for filling in for him last week. Today was communion Sunday and Pastor David brought a message about truly communing with our Lord through the service of communion.

After church the team decided to go to Rice and Roux for lunch. We have enjoyed all our visits there over the past two years working in Baton Rouge. They ownership and staff there always thank us for our service to their community and the owner gives a 20% discount to all the volunteers working the flooding disaster. They also routinely give the same discount to all the fire and police. Tonight we had our regular Sunday night meeting and we will meet again at 8:00 in the morning. It’s been a good weekend.