First day of work! We woke up and had our group devotions around 7:30am. Then we had breakfast and heard about our service project for the day. We would be staying at St. Johns and doing some work around this church. We split into two groups-boys and girls and began to work. The boys started off by doing some mowing and weed eating around the church. Next the began to split some wood. *Remember this wood pile, it will come back into play. Us girls started off by pulling weeds out of a garden. I've helped my mom pull weeds around our house before but these weeds were crazy. It was probably a 3 row wide garden, but only one row actually had anything planted. There was one row of strawberries and 2 rows of nothing, all of which were encompassed by weeds that came up to our knees. My thought is that this garden had never been taken care of. Well of course when you are working in the woods around a bunch of weeds the bugs are going to come out. Here in VA we have mosquitoes but they rarely bother me and I never wear bug spray. This was not an option-AT ALL in Alaska. Not only do they have mosquitoes but they are 3x the size they are here. Now hear me out- I've been to Mississippi and dealt with their mosquitoes but Alaska has got them beat. I've never seen anything like them. HUGE and out for blood. After conquering the weeds and mosquitoes we began to sand and prep for staining the 3 decks the church has. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of us working on our deck. :( After lunch we headed over to the park. The goal of the week was to minister to any and all of the kids that we came into contact with. A little harder than we had planned. We would get a huge group of kids together playing dodgeball and when we would sit down to have a lesson they would all run away and at most we were left with 2 kids to minister to. (Remember these two kids ;))
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| Some of the kids at the park. |
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| You have an awesome view no matter where you are in Alaska. <3 |
We worked at a church that was completely rebuilding because of a fire that destroyed the first building. This "new" to them building looked like a big metal room that they were beginning to separate into a sanctuary, classrooms, and one big fellowship type room. We helped by painting quite a few things around the church- rooms, doors, frames in between hanging up the new doors, putting in new door frames, cleaning some disgusting windows and playing a little wiffle ball ;) This day was probably the most work challenging. Again we headed to the park in the afternoon and hung out with the kids.
<3 Ab
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