RVing With a Purpose

Friday, August 16, 2019

It rained a lot during the night last night and on into this morning. By mid-morning the rain was over and it was a beautiful afternoon and evening.

One of the team members made an agreement with the pastor at Winding Rivers to work on an addition to the what will one day be the new church. It is currently the dorm space for volunteers. They are adding some bathrooms that will first be used by the volunteers and then by the church. It will also include a kitchen. This was all started prior to our arrival and is totally outside of NOMADS. Norm works on this project after hours. This morning Max and a few other team members and church members also did some work on the addition, while Anne did some work inside FRED.

We then drove around New Lisbon a bit and ran some errands. There is just not much in New Lisbon. We headed back to the church in time to say goodbye to our departing NOMADS, Tom and Jenny. We really enjoyed getting to know them and will see them in Michigan in a few weeks. Just a little while later, our new couple, Gary and Nancy arrived from Georgia. It’s great to see them again. Tomorrow since we don’t have anyone else coming in we will see what tourist things we can do. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Today was a beautiful sunny day. We had a cool start, 54 degrees, but it warmed up to 76 this afternoon. What great weather for working!

This morning our new NOMAD Harry had devotion. He used a devotion book titled Daily Word and our word for today was Faith with scripture from Hebrews and James. He ended with the thought provoking question: “Do you really believe or just believe that you believe?” Thanks so much for sharing, Harry.

After devotion, Anne and Jenny went to Teresa’s to texture the walls. That job took a couple hours and hopefully Teresa will be happy with the walls when she comes home tonight. That completes what we can do at Teresa’s until she gets her painting done. Then we will plan to return to install the trim. After cleaning up Anne and Jenny headed to Elroy, back to Rhonda’s. After devotion, Harry took Max to Rhonda’s along with Tom, Norm, Stel and Jodi. They worked on completing the doors and jams, baseboards along with installing the lock sets and a lot of cleanup. Later in the day Stel and Jodi went back to Nate’s and later were joined by Harry and even later Max. After Anne and Jenny arrived at Rhonda’s they did a lot of touch up of paint and stain, along with some cleaning, installing switch plates. The closet rod and shelf were also installed. At the end of the day the two bedrooms and bathroom were ready on schedule. Rhonda and Denise are planning to move in this weekend. The remainder of the house will be worked on over time. We may be back there at some point. Back at Nate’s there was continued work on the floor joists and subfloor as well as capping off additional plumbing that won’t be used any more. A lot was accomplish this week. It was a good week and we thank God for another week of being the hands and feet of Jesus.

Tonight Roxy and the church ladies prepared us another great meal. BBQ chicken with Roxy’s homemade sauce, potato salad, grape salad and brownies for dessert. Wonderful!

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Another cloudy and cool day in New Lisbon. Really nice for work. Today’s devotion was presented by Jodi who read several scriptures referring to laughter. Then she read us several quips, one-liners or as she called them ditties. We all had some good laughs, sometimes at our own expense. Thanks, Jodi.

Today Max and Harry returned to Teresa’s, the house we worked on last week, and did the final sanding on the drywall.  She has decided she would like us to go ahead and do the texturing so we will try to get that done tomorrow.  Afterwards, they joined Stel and Jodi at Nate’s house and worked on the subfloor and walls. His house is now ready for the new subflooring and the plumber was there today to look around and prepare an estimate. The materials should arrive tomorrow, but who knows about the plumber.

Anne, Norm, Tom and Jenny went to Rhonda’s where they got the back bedroom baseboard completed and door hung and trimmed. The bathroom ceiling and walls are painted, the door hung, the baseboards installed and interior door trim installed. The front bedroom baseboards are almost complete and the door installation is underway. It’s beginning to look like a home. We will be pushed to get all the little remaining things done in those three rooms tomorrow but hopefully we will make it. We are all tired tonight but tomorrow is NOMADS Friday.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

It was another cloudy and cool day compared to Alabama. Our high in New Lisbon today was 78 and it’s currently 74. Don’t know what the high was today in Remlap but it is still 90 at 8:00pm. Yes, we are enjoying the end of summer in Wisconsin.

Today Jenny and Tom shared our devotion and again Tom lead our music. Tom shared a God Winks story titled the State Farm man and reminded us of Matthew 7:12, So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. We don’t believe in what so many call coincidence, we see God in action. God Winks. Thanks so much, Jenny and Tom.

We all went back to our same house after devotion and it was a busy day at both houses. So busy that there are very few pictures today. We will try to do better tomorrow. At Rhonda’s house, Tom and Norm worked on trim and doors. They got the bifold door hung in the back bedroom and it looks very nice. There is a little trim work left to be done. In the same room almost all the baseboard is installed and both windows are trimmed out. That room is close to complete. Jenny spent her day staining trim and then putting polyurethane over the stain. She also completed the doors. The trim and doors look really nice. Anne completed the texturing of the bathroom ceiling and walls and began the painting. At Nate’s house, work continued on disconnecting some plumbing and striping the remainder of the paneling from the walls and removing the rotten subfloor. In one of the walls they found a huge wasp or yellow jacket nest that fortunately was inactive. They did some dirty work today.

We had hard rain again this afternoon as we were returning home and then after time for showers, we were fed another wonderful meal by ladies of the church. We had cowboy casserole that was so very good. We plan to have the leftovers tomorrow night. Think it will probably be an early bedtime tonight. We are tired.