Sorry about that...

Sorry about the long delay!  Between the start of teams coming in and splotchy internet access, this poor blog has been neglected.  It has been a busy few weeks here in McDowell County.  We've had teams coming through for 3 weeks now, and I am definitely breathing a sigh of relief now that it is the weekend!  Each new team that comes through brings a lot of great fellowship, different dynamics, and occasionally challenges, but I am adjusting to the pace of life with teams and am overall really enjoying it.

The house that I have been overseeing the most work at belongs to an 85 year old woman named Virginia Taylor.  She just turned 85 yesterday, in fact!  A lot of the people we work with out here don't know the Lord, but Ms. Taylor has been a great example to me and the teams of how we should praise Him for every day that we live out, and how we have to keep reminding ourselves that if we are still around, it's because He still wants to use us to further His glory.  I love sitting and talking with her, and since she has a huge 3 story house, I will still be around with teams for another week or two.  I'm excited about that!  

We do have some prayer requests out here in West Virginia, if you want to know about that.  You can pray for us college interns as we are settling into the role of running worksites, especially more than one at a time, and interacting with adults and students on the teams.  Also, the 3 of us (college interns) have 1 local high schooler per week riding around with us.  There are 7 of them total, and they are each working a couple of weeks this summer.  They help us out, and we act as mentors through the week.  It's been great so far, but you can pray as the summer goes on that we are listening to what the Spirit is prodding us to ask or say to them in order to help them get out of this summer what the Lord wants them to get out of it.  

I think that's enough for now.  I hope you're all having a great day!!