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More Pictures from Throughout the Week

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As more team members are sharing their photos with each other, here are a few more highlights from the week. Working on the flooring on Monday  Greg and Kyle supervising Kelly  Kyle watches Autumn, Becky, and Pete through the giant hole in the wall that Bob made  At Michelle's house  Pete putting the finishing touches on the roof  Blue Bend recreation area  Rope bridge at Blue Bend   Rooftop view of a water break Kyle gave Peter a tin foil hat so the CIA couldn't read his mind  Elvis and Autumn working on the wall demolition  More wall demolition  Pete was our official team photographer  The water at Blue Bend was a bit cold for Kyle and Elvis  Blue Bend  Singing in the evening  Elvis communing with his cell phone  Team journalist and blog writer, Clark  Pete and Autumn seemed to enjoy sharing a small screen to watch movies  Good progress on Bob's project  A
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West Virginia Mission Trip, Day 6, August 11

Today was our last day to help the people we had been led to by God, and of course we awoke with the break of dawn anxiously to finish our mission.  After a quick breakfast and a group prayer we headed off to our two work sites. We had originally thought in the planning stages in June that we would be helping victims of last year’s bad flooding in this area.  But it turned out that the need is so great in this area that there are many people not directly affected by the flooding that desperately need help.  On our way through the town of Rupert to get to Joni’s house we passed many run-down houses and businesses, with apparently nobody able or willing to fix them up.  Some may have been abandoned by their owners after the flooding, who did not have the resources to fix what had been damaged.  But one gas station at a street corner had a big hole in the roof, and trees growing inside the store.  I compare this to my community of southwest Butler County in Pennsylvania, where real e
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Pictures from Friday

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Gary, our site supervisor, working with Donna to install cabinets  Clark, the drywall sanding machine  Shawn's making progress on the plumbing  Finishing the walls at Joanie's   Dave enjoying some personal time with his drywall mud Bob's handiwork (with help from others): new roof line and wall  Elvis at work  Because of Bob, Michelle now has a door to open when company comes A fully insulated and dry-walled room  Peter checking for protruding screw heads  Autumn and Becky during clean-up (Tiara in the background, and half of Gary)  Bob takes care of finishing touches  Elvis finalizing some roofline work  Shawn inspecting his work on re-plumbing the house  Check an earlier post to see the octopus that Shawn replaced  New kitchen cabinets, paid for and installed by our team  The living room is ready for painting  Donna in a mudded room   Clean-up at Joanie's hou
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Pictures from Thursday

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Greg excavating for plumbing access  Shawn working on the plumbing Jean having a discussion with Gary, our site supervisor  Clark mudding  Clark's dream come true: meeting the West Virginia State Fair queen  Joanie's house  Jean and Dave re-taping drywall  Greg on external plumbing duty  Jean and Gary problem-solving  You've got to keep your drywall tools clean!  Making plans for Joanie's new kitchen cabinets  Greg and the bathroom plumbing puzzle  Drywallers Becky, Autumn, and Kyle
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