Having all of our friends from Robbinsville spend 5 days with us in Zionsville in June was ABUNDANT and incredibly special! The team met several weeks in advance before coming on the trip to spiritually prepare and grow together individually and as a team, as well as study through the book of Ephesians. They arrived on a Wednesday and departed on a Sunday. While their time here was short and we slept VERY little, the blessings that resulted were priceless.
Before the team arrived, we hit up Sam's & Walmart! I love shopping with these sweet girls!
As soon as the team arrived on Wednesday, we all picked up right where we left off! The girls went to talking and the boys went to battling on the court!
Thursday & Friday were spent working on the house project (see previous blog)! Basically, the Robbinsville team was responsible for demolition on this house. We stripped the house of everything, scraped paint, washed down all walls and ceilings, ripped out the carpet and an old bathtub, ripped off old shingles and put on the new, cut down all bushes outside as well as removing all vines from the house, digging a 6ft hole to find a pipe leak, sawing down LOTS of trees and limps, cutting down shrubbery and rebuilding a fence, burning a huge brush pile, painting the shed outside, spraying down the house, chopping up wood, etc. To say we had a blast is an understatement.
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| Our fun Pastor! |
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| ready for our first day on the job! |
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| old carpet going in the dumpster! |
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| Teamwork is beautiful! |
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Shouldn't the boys be hauling out the big stuff?
Nope, Dana and I got it! |
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| Boys will be boys! |
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| Jennifer & Heather scraping wallpaper! |
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| please look at the before picture of this shower!!! These girls did an AMAZING job using "Works"! |
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| SOOOO thankful for this girl's heart to come on this trip! I love you GINA (real name Autumn!) |
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| We love our pastor! |
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| Cleaning up outside and pookie on the roof! |
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| Lil Frank going under the house! |
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| Ben is a master with this chain saw! |
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| Hamilton re-building the fence! This entire fence was covered with all the shrubbery you see on the right. Stay tuned for the AFTER picture at the end. |
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| I love Jess and her heart to serve even with child!!! |
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| My heart was overflowing having some of my discipleship group on this trip! |
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| Lots of bonding with this girl! |
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| The THREE Musketeers (Rance, David & Ben)! |
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| Painting the barn! |
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| LOVED that the kids wanted to help too! |
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| LOTS of root diggin' |
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| These 2 spent a lot of time working on the roof! |
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| Havin' SO much fun! |
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| Praise Jesus for Dana & Jess feeding us WELL! |
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| Bonding :) |
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| THE GOSPEL! |
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| Nothing like a HARD days work! |
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| What a difference a couple of days can make!!! :) |
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| Lovin' this cute house! |
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| Ahhhhh this brings me JOY! Clean & Rebuilt fence! |
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| LOVELY! |
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| Man talk! |
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| Celebrating the progress! |
After we all showered and had dinner in the evenings, we met in "the Living Room" to debrief for the day. This was a special time of sharing and processing what the Lord was teaching us individually as well as a time of encouraging one another as a team.
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| Welcome to the Living Room! |
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| Worship led by Jeremy!!! |
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| The night ended in prayer! |
On Saturday, we planned a FREE car wash (literally FREE, no donations accepted) in order to love on the community! However, before the car wash began - we had a group of guys that RANDOMLY decided to run a 5K that morning first thing. This was sporadic and SO MUCH FUN! Some of the girls on the mission team made t-shirts for the guys advertising our FREE car wash at the 5K! The entire team went out to cheer on and support my hubby, Lil Frank, Hamilton, Alex and Rory as they ran!
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| Check out those tshirts! |
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| The guys! |
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| The race about to begin! |
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| Let the car wash fun begin! |
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| LOVE teamwork! |
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| We were the crazies that stood out by the road jumping up and down advertising the FREE car wash! I will never forget the funny looks, or no looks at all, as well as the crazy conversations like "why on earth would you wash cars for FREE???" |
After Sunday morning worship, we said our goodbyes to the Robbinsville team and praised the Lord for all He did!
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| Goodbye, see you soon! |
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| THE TEAM! |
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The wives of the THREE Musketeers
*Thankful for teammates* |
I look forward to sharing with you the continued progress on the house project! You don't want to miss this!
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