Week Two Training Day!

Day one is in the books here at Hosanna for week two!

After a long (and extremely wet) drive yesterday afternoon, we arrived at Hosanna around 8:30 p.m. and got unpacked and moved into the dorm. We got acclimated to our surroundings and talked about what was going to happen this week with the group, and then we met for a few minutes with our small groups to start getting to know each other.  

This morning we started our training for the week. The Hosanna staff was quick to tell us about all we were planning to accomplish in our projects this week, including siding, roofing, flooring, and painting. They even said we might get to do some masonry work!  Knowing that we'd have a huge variety of projects to work on this week, today was especially important so that we could all become familiar with the tools and terminology that we'll need to use throughout the week in our work. 

Amy and Emily were awesome, as usual, with keeping us engaged in a long and focused learning day on campus.  We learned about everything from how to attach and nail siding, to how to lay allure flooring, to how to hold a paintbrush properly.  The students don't truly understand yet, but starting tomorrow they'll be extremely glad we went through so much together today.

After our training was over, we helped the Hosanna staff unload the truck from today's jobs and re-load it for tomorrow's work with us.  Sounds like we'll be doing some roofing. We had a delicious taco dinner together and then had some time in small group meetings, following all of this with worship to end our night. Now it's off to bed to be well rested for our first day in the field tomorrow!