With Honor- Mission Serve 2012

Mission Serve

This year’s focus was WITH HONOR.  The project coordinator was Wesley Smith from Boiling Springs.  The construction coordinator was Steve Swann.  Steve works for the City of Charlotte.  We worked with Steve on another project and it was great to see him again.  As a side note, people from Boiling Springs talk VERY country.  We stayed at Mt. Harmony Baptist Church in Matthews.  They were gracious hosts and fed us very well.  Our girls were blessed with a large room. 

Worship

Our speaker was Rusty Stroupe, the baseball coach at Gardner-Webb University.  The band was Transformation 22. 

The job site

The Foxtrot squad had the pleasure of serving Mr. and Mrs. Turner.  We were given the task of re-shingling the roof.  Some of the wood also needed to be replaced.  For several days, our vocabulary was full of words like button caps nails, plywood, architectural shingles, chalk lines and felt paper.  The squad completed its task in three days.  We definitely felt God’s hand on us, as no one got sick or injured.  We were also blessed with some shade.  Our squad was led by construction captain Bret Sprecher and co-squad leaders, JoAnn Bolton and I.  We had squad of mostly high school students, which proved to be a hard-working group.  Squad members were from Maryland, Georgia and North Carolina.  The final day, which ended early, was spent helping the Echo squad complete their roof.  Echo and Foxtrot had a great day.  There were no conflicts between the squads, as well as no bragging about Foxtrot finishing first.  Echo was blessed with great leaders, including ‘’Uncle Tim.’’  Tim was the first aid supervisor for the project.    We were blessed with having all of Wednesday off.  Due to a Thursday morning interview, I took the whole day off.  I spent the afternoon job searching and submitted an application (Red Cross).   

Molly- Foxtrot

Andrew- Foxtrot

Rachel and Bret- Foxtrot

Members of the Echo squad

Free day
The Bethlehem youth group went to Carowinds.  We got our discount tickets (thanks, SECU).  After a few roller coasters and the swings, we headed to lunch.  We bought food at Wal-Mart and made sandwiches in the parking lot.  We rode the Roaring Rapids and then split off into different directions.  I spent the rest of my time at the water park.  There’s a lot to be said for the lazy river and the wave pool. 

Here is my photo album from the week:

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These are notes and pictures from the Mission Serve staff: http://www.mission-serve.com/mission-serve/2012-projects/charlotte