Sorry for the delay. The internet went down at SOS. I(Megan) spent the last hour driving all over town trying to find somewhere to connect and nothing was working. I'm now sitting outside a park (picking up some of my kids from helping with VBS) and it's working.
Day 2
Today was a great day down here in Memphis. It was only 90 degrees, so we had a really cool day. I wanted to give you some updates of what each of the teams are doing this week on their projects. In my team, Kurt, is J

acob Walsh, Jacob Sanburn, Caleb, Kayli, Caroline, and Kristen P.. Sorry if I botched the spelling of the names. It looks like our project for this week will be mostly roofing. We spent a lot of day putting tar paper on the roof and also clearing some trees and brush in the backyard. We also ate a lot of snow cones. Our homeowners mother is the local snow cone lady, so she brought over her supplies and we had an all you can eat snow cone buffet today. We left the worksite with a lot of dirty clothes, some sore bodies, and very blue stained mouths. The team is in high spirits and can’t wait to lay some shingles tomorrow. I’ll update more later.
This is Charlie and in my group are Josh, Kristin F., Lauren, Sam, Mason and Ibby. Our project for this week is to continue and possibly finish roofing a house that had to have the roof reconfigured to allow better drainage. We spent the day putting down tar paper. We expect to be finished with the tar paper by mid morning tomorrow and will be moving on to shingles. Our SOS team leader is Dave Vigness and he is hopeful, as are we, that we will be able to finish this roof this week. Our homeowners have two Rottweiller’s named Jade and R. Kelly. All the kids love to hang with them on our limited breaks. Talk to you tomorrow…

Bryan and Brooke here! Our group was so rowdy that they had to put two of us in charge. We have Heather P., Aaron C., Sarah W., Morgan P., Andrew D., and Jordan W. and to be quite honest our team ROCKS! Today we were on the roof (common theme among the groups) and are pretty certain that we will finish up tomorrow morning. After that we have windows to demolish and new ones to install. Our home is in pretty much disarray and there is a lot to be done. Today we had great attitudes and we expect the same, because our teens are amazing. Until tomorrow….
Hi, this is Joe. I had an unbelievable time getting to hang out and serve with your kids today. In my group are Cove, Alex, Blake, Riley, Lexie, and Mackenzie. They were great. It was funny at first. They were so nervous getting on the roof for the first time. But looking at them an hour later, it was like a whole new group of kids. They had their roof legs and were running around on the roof like it was their profession. Well, I better go. It looks like us leaders are getting ready to have a dance contest. Don’t worry, I’ll represent your kids well. Talk to you later.
This is Mark, I am the adult with the group of Ryan D., Jacob V, Brandon P , Aly S., Mellisa W., & Paige D. What a group it has been. This morning at chapel before we went to our home to work on, the devotion leader was talking about how 200 junior high kids were here and that we needed to work as one, get along, and cooperate. The only way this can happen is from God. I saw that happening today with your children. We walked onto the job site and Mrs McVey, who is the woman whose house we are repairing, immediately told our group that she was v

ery disappointed with the high school group that was here last week. They goofed off and got very little done during the week. So our group went up on the roof (yes they all went on the roof and became very good at carefully moving around and removing the shingles). By 11 am they had already done more than the high schoolers did. When it was lunch time she praised and bragged on our kids. She could not believe how much work they had done. Our team leader from SOS was astonished how much work they accomplished and how well they worked together. In fact this is the first Jr High group he has ever worked with and to date he said this is the best cooperative and hard working group he had. He was comparing this to high schoolers. The important point is that your kids are taking to heart helping others and in that way demonstrating their Christian faith. As we left today exhausted (at least me) and all dirty, I heard Mrs. McVey tell our SOS leader that she wanted our group back tomorrow and even for the next 2 weeks. Your children’s faith and demonstration of God’s love is evident. You should be proud.