SOS Day 2 updates

Brett and Brooke here! We have Mikey, Parker, Evan, Abby, Grace, Emily C. and Emily P. in our group. We have the opportunity to serve Ms. Delores and work on her home for the week. Her house seems to be a revolving door for people in the neighborhood, so we have had the opportunity to get to know some of them. The boys have done a good job engaging Delores' grandson who has been living with her. They play soccer and an interesting game involving a ball and two smashed coke cans. We are very proud of their initiative game. Monday we finished the roof and began a garden...we are not to optimistic about the success of our flower planted in concrete ground. But we followed the orders we were given and Delores is pleased with the outcome! Today we began to remove the siding from the house, which required haz mat suits and lots of perspiration. Upon taking off the siding we found the house boards to be rotten and needing to be replaced, upon removing the boards we discovered the house did not have insulation. So tomorrow we will tackle insulating, residing, and continuing to remove the siding from the other side of the home. This group has been a joy to lead... we think every introvert was placed on our team, but with a point system/initiative we have been able to loosen sealed lips and shy personalities.

Amy and Josh's group includes Morgan, Emma, Katie, Matthew, Jacob, Caleb, and Thomas. We are currently working on repairing and reroofing the home of a very sweet woman named Miss Nadaine. On Monday, the guys tore off all the shingles which was no easy task. The roof had 10 layers of shingles. The guys did an amazing job and worked so hard. The heat index was 110 and it felt even hotter on the roof. The girls worked hard moving what felt like hundreds of wheelbarrow loads of bricks and shingles to the dumpster. This turned out to be tougher than we thought as both wheelbarrows broke in the first hour. That only slowed the girls down a bit as they carried bricks and shingles by hand for over an hour while we waited for new wheelbarrows.
Tuesday was spent pulling out damaged boards from the roof. There are a lot of holes in the roof right now. We have started cutting boards and nailing them onto the roof. We also spent some time visiting with Miss Nadine (our homeowner) who makes gingerbread houses and even showed us a few she has in her house. This is such a great group of kids, working all day without complaining. Everyone is safe and having a great time whether they are up on the roof or painting each other!

I will post more leaders groups later.