Ready to serve in Appalachia

Tonight our Appalachian Mission team met to go over details for our trip on July 26th. We will be leaving form the First Baptist Church parking lot at 5:30 a.m. and heading south for Northfork, West Virginia. The trip is 711 miles and should take about twelve hours and seventeen minutes if we were to go non-stop.

We will be working with local families on home improvement projects for the four days we are down there. We will be up early on Monday morning. After breakfast we will split up and tackle two or three homes. We will have lunch with the families we are working with and then finish up for the day around 4:30 p.m.

Each night we will have devotions and some fee time. We are schedule to go to a Bluegrass festival one evening. We will finish up on Thursday night and head home after breakfast on Friday. We are some tools but we aren't quite sure what we will need because everything depends on the projects they assign us. I'm sure there will be lots of raking, some painting and some minor repair work.

There are eleven people on our team this year. It includes Rachel Bober, Carol Calkins, Taylor Chaffee, Erica Corbett, June Deptulski, Ellie Eccleston, Connie Hayward, Cal Lord, Michelle Madsen-Bibeau, Doreen and Roger Mainville. There is also a possibility that Clayton and Michelle Lord will drive over from Elizabethtown, Kentucky to spend a day or two working with the team.

They will covet your prayers as they head out a week from this Sunday. You will get the opportunity to send them off in style during our worship service this Sunday. We will commission them during the 9:30 a.m. services at the two churches. Come and join us.

Cal