Getting Started!

Last week we started working with our supervisors. Our team spent the week working on one project, and then started a new house. This week I learned how to tile and grout a bathroom, which turned out awesome! Sean worked on building a new footer in the crawl space. This involved hours of mixing concrete under the house and working in the cramped space.We did a couple of other small repairs and should finish that house later this week.

Saturday we started working on a new house. We began the day with a small dedication prayer circle with staff, our volunteers, and the homeowner. We had four volunteers for the day: future homeowners who were working off their sweat equity hours. We spent the morning taking apart a rotting porch and pressure washing the exterior of the house, then the afternoon moving cinder blocks and cleaning up the site of the 30 hour build house, which we’ll be building at the end of the month as part of the affiliates 30^th anniversary 30-30-30 events. (30 projects, in 30 days, with 30 partners). Currently there are 42 projects lined up, with over 80 community partners in 30 days (not including Sundays)!