Thursday, June 20th

Team 1  

Team one is the best! (Victoria Kuhn, Mark Dager, Nathan VanBrunt, Fiona Asbury, Haley White, Jane Drumheller, Sarah Miller, Ed Tennent). Unbelievably hard workers, it was difficult to get them to even stop for a water break. Everybody wanted to get as much done as possible since we were rained out on Tuesday. Starting Monday with just a cinder block foundation, we ended today with six exterior walls and a long interior wall.  Some lucky family is well on their way to having a beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home thanks to PPC’s team 1!!! 

We all loved our two carpenters, Steve and Nick. They truly became our friends during the course of this week. We all gave them a hug when we parted. We all learned a lot from them….. yes, carpenter skill but also not to judge someone by first impressions. They didn’t dress like us, may not have finished high school or have all their teeth, and they talked funny (to everybody but me). But they were patient with us, joked with us, and shared their love of family and their faith. We left feeling that we were very close friends. There may have even been a few tears as we left them. Our team would love to come back next year and share more memories and stories and build more Hazard KY relationships.  Attached are several pictures from today and our new family portrait/graduation picture.

If anybody comes back with a little too much sun, it was NOT my fault. I kept telling them to put on sun screen J 

PS Did we mention that the dog that was bitten by the copperhead snake on Monday has fully recovered and was very glad to see us…. as we were to see her.

-          Ed Tennent

Team 2

                Team two finished the week of work with a new project of tearing down some old porch steps and completely rebuilding the steps and rails.  Our group did a terrific job! The work was all accomplished with smiles and grace, and I could not have been more proud of our group.  I had a fantastic time working with them this week, and our crew was very grateful for the help of our carpenter, Josh.  We learned how to do a lot together, and we hope that all we did was for the glory of God and to uplift our community.

                Today, we pray for the today’s resident, Mrs. Napier.  She has lived in her house for over 40 years, and raised 13 children and many grandchildren there.   Mrs. Napier goes to the Church of God congregation near her home, and she said, “A church is a church.  As long as we are serving the Lord together!” I promised her that we would remember her in our prayers and she promised she would do the same for us.

                -Sean Miller

Team 3

                Today our team did the last touch ups on our work site.  After a long day yesterday of cleaning all the cement out, we were exhausted today.  We got some free time to talk to our carpenters and got to know them.  Both of our carpenters are very nice and we will miss them greatly.  We did much work, but did not get to build the porch.  However, the carpenters were surprised at our progress in such a short amount of time.  They weren’t even sure if we would be able to finish clearing out all the broken pieces of the old porch, but we did!  We also went underneath the house in a tiny crawl space to put in posts that hold the weight of the house.  This will also provide something for the new porch to be attached to, when the next volunteer group comes in and builds it. 

Stefanie Baarman and Emily Petti