We're Back... IN ALABAMA

Sorry that no one has written the last 16 days, things have been really busy since we got back from North Carolina. We had all kinds of exciting happenings happening last week, we went to the Exploreum in Mobile with the After School kids, helped Mount Moriah Baptist Church hand out their Angel Food Ministry, and held a Fall Festival for the community. Wheww.. last week was a lot of fun!
This week has been pretty average we had after school, rummage, youth group, young adult bible study, and work of course. Today, being Halloween, we are having a halloween party for the after school kids, and a scream fest movie night with the teenagers. So as you can see we have got our hands full again today.
I did want to stop and thank all the churches that allowed Corey and I to come and speak and for the warm hospitality that you all showed. Please keep holding us in your prayers and in your thoughts. We are so blessed here to have three interns,currently, Will, Emily, and Merryn, and of course our after school program teachers, whom without we could not function. Corey and I are so pleased to be here and to be serving you in Your ministry here at the Friends center in Sanktown, Alabama.
Please don't forget to get all your Christmas Rummage items to the YM office no later than the Friday before Thanksgiving, that would be November 21, make sure to check with the Yearly meeting office for any changes in that date. And please please consider making a one time gift to the center, or joining in our Hands On Help program and becoming a monthly sponser, remember as you bless us God will continue to bless you.
Well as always check out the new pictures, and the list listed to the right of the blog.

God Bless, and Happy Halloween

We're back...

Hey friends, we made it back up to NC safely on Monday, and I think I can speak for us all when I say I'm very glad to have some time to spend with family and friends. I love being down in Alabama, but I miss seeing you people too!

I thought I'd give some updates on some of the stuff we've been doing behind the scenes. So basically, everything that Corey's been working on for the past few months, haha. There have been some vast improvements in the back rooms of Turner and the shop. Thanks to the groups we had down for SOUL's work projects week, a lot of stuff has been moved out of those rooms and into the new storage building. So, for those of you that don't understand the full scale of that impact, we can now walk through the back rooms without stepping/squeezing/crawling over stuff on the floor. Plus, thanks to the help of the Western Quarter work group, one of the rooms has finally been transformed into the new youth room (shown on the left). Very exciting!

The shop has also been cleaned out and organized to a degree I've never seen. Corey's worked hard on getting it to the point where he knows what he has, how much of it there is, and where it's located. And not only can you walk through the room without traversing a maze of machines, supplies, wood scraps, and countless other things, but he's actually been able to park the lawn mower and trailer inside the building and - get this - even the van! (Not at the same time...) I can't tell you how much these seemingly tiny blessings excite me, but perhaps if you've had to deal with those rooms in particular at some point in the past, you can understand how I feel.

Another thing: we've been able to get benches built on the new porch at the rummage building (again, thanks to SOUL for the porch). I know the ladies that show up early for rummage sale have been enjoying them. Corey and I are both pretty proud of them... especially me since I'm construction and tool-challenged. I'm just glad they're still standing and providing a little more safety for people up on the porch.

Lastly, I'd just like to offer a big, overdue thanks to the work group that came down from Western Quarter awhile back. They were hard workers and continually displayed hearts willing and determined to follow God's calling. They were a pleasure to have down, and I'm convinced that God will continue to use the work they put forth to bless us and others at the center. The bunk beds they built are great - I know because I sleep in one every night. May God bless each of you in your service to Him.

Random

So we haven't had anything to exciting happen lately except for a little boy, Mason, slicing his big toe open playing hide and seek. He was screaming so much even the guys playing basketball stopped and came to see what happened. He was fine, we elevated his foot, cleaned it up, and his mom took him home. Emily and I both thought the kid was dying the way he was screaming, and the other kids were yelling, but he was fine, he was more scared about "getting a shot" was going to feel than about the cut. Oh and by the way he was wearing those shoes called Crocs, and a stick went into one of the holes.
We are gearing up for the Basketball Tournament coming up this Saturday. Each team is three players with one sub, if they want, and they play until they lose twice. The winning team gets a prize and all the rest get the pleasure of having a fun day of playing basketball. We are going to be selling full concessions this time, hot dogs, french fries, candy bars, blowpops, soda, and of course gaterade. The youth group is helping run this event, in hopes of raising money to go to tremors and summer camp. Over all it should be a good day!

We will be coming to North Carolina on Monday October 13. Corey and I are speaking at Springfield Friends on Wednesday October 15 at 6:00pm, South Fork on Sunday October 19 at 11:00am and at Archdale at 6:30 pm, on the same day. We would love to see everyone, we are going to be giving a presentation about the center, and its programs, and answering questions.
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