Training Into Action

Today was a full and exciting day!  We drove out to the other side of Pittsburgh to do a bunch of work for an amazing woman named Pat. Her husband (of a number of decades) passed away six weeks ago and she is trying to keep up on her house all by herself at age 88. She's quite spritely, but obviously there are just somethings a person of that age cannot do.  One of those things is a roof.  That's where we came in!

We spent all day out at Pat's house (with another volunteer group from local church St. Ferdinand) putting a new layer of shingles on her roof.  While some of the group was busy doing that, others were taking care of her yard.  Still others were painting the foundation of her house to match the rest of the building.  A final group ended up painting her utility shed that sits near the driveway, even though that was never part of the plan!  When we show up, we make things happen.

As you can see, our group had a terrible time at the jobsite.  We spent much of the day making sure that Becca and Sara Twining's selfie stick worked properly (we'll surely do more testing tomorrow).

Finally we got a big group picture at the end of the day in front of the house before we went back to campus for a wonderful night of food, fellowship and worship together.  

Tomorrow we are going downtown to help someone with brand new siding on their house.  It should be a blast, so stay tuned!