Day 2- Feeling humbled and grateful

Whew!  What a full day we had today. "Team Habitat" was able to hammer themselves out of a job today. These guys, and one very sweet gal (Sandra Jordan) finished framing the entire interior of the 3-bedroom house they were working on. In addition they finished the fence around the back yard and got the two exterior doors hung. The blue board hasn't been delivered yet so their work at this job site is complete. Onward to another job site on Thursday!

"Team CCSP" also worked themselves out of a job today!  They finished a roofing project, repaired some ceiling drywall and got it all ready for priming and paint, repaired some stucco on another home, and managed to fix a front porch on an elderly neighbor's home down the street. These two teams will also be moving to new sites as they got everything completed today too.

As you can tell, we have been blessed with extremely efficient work teams whose skills have matched up perfectly with the jobs needing to be done. Dr.  Scott called this a "God thing" at our devotional time tonight. We feel blessed to have been so efficient with our time and thankful to have been able to get things done so quickly over the last two days.

Today brought the La Puenta food bank volunteers to the church to pick up the donations from St. Paul's. They were absolutely overwhelmed at the generosity of our congregation as their food bank shelves were nearly empty. They have had to ration food over the past few weeks as supplies have been very low all summer. They said that our donation will enable families to eat ration-free for the next week. A humbling thought that our small church had that kind of impact after one or two Sundays of giving.  We were also able to deliver half of the beautiful baby blankets to the Alamosa Women's Resource Center today. The WRC works with low income and teen parents to help them with birth control, pregnancy resources, and aids in prenatal care. They weren't expecting our gift and were thrilled to receive the blankets.

We are all looking forward to a day of fun, rest, and relaxation tomorrow. Some folks will be heading home,  and others will be joining us for the rest of the week. Please keep our team in your prayers as we take a day to catch our breath and enjoy this beautiful valley. The weather here has been absolutely perfect and we are extremely thankful for temperatures in the 80's and low humidity. We hope our blog is keeping everyone informed and that you are able to get a feel for our work down here.  More to come tomorrow.