Thursday

Hello again friends,
Today concluded our time on the job site as we will no longer be working at the house tomorrow. We got a lot done overall this week; we painted most of the the trim/crown molding/baseboards on the inside, we also painted the foundation on the outside, cleaned up the bushes in the front and back, tore down an old swing set, scraped lots of old paint off the floor, and many other odds and ends. HFIC seemed really pleased and thankful for the work we were able to do for this house. Please pray that they can sell it for a good price to fund their operations.
After the worksite we stopped at a local BBQ Joint that I frequented in college for a dessert called "Alabama Dirt." We all got a little bit and relaxed after completing our tasks for the week; it was a great feeling.
We had tonight off (see yesterday's post) so we stayed at HFIC's campus and hung out together and played games for a solid 3hrs. Some of the HFIC played with us as well, it was super fun!
Tomorrow is grow group. Grow group is a more intimate version of the Bible club we held on Tuesday and Wednesday. During the Bible club, each of our team members were asked to pursue one kid in particular to invite to the Friday grow group to more thoroughly discuss the gospel with the kids. Thus, the hope tomorrow is to have 13 kids come (correlating w/ the number of team members we have) to the grow group. We have two options of where to have grow group: at a downtown park, or, if it rains, back at HFIC. We worked hard tonight to plan two different grow groups that accomodate to the needs/resources of each place. At grow group, we will play lots of games, sing some songs, and then at lunch our team members will separate with our kids and talk with them for awhile about Jesus.

Please pray mainly right now for our grow group: that kids would follow up and come, that the program would go smoothly, and that the kids would be open to talking about Jesus.

Here's one pic from today (sorry, forgot to snap pics today)

We surprised Hope with a birthday cake;) (her birthday's tomorrow, but we celebrated it today bc we cant tomorrow)