Coming at you from Alabama for the last time. The last two days our group was split up
a little differently, The majority of us woke up bright and early at 6:30 and headed for
a Habitat for Humanity site at 7:15. The rest of the group woke up at 7:15 and we divided between working with Debbie the Camp Christian director and Ransom Café and the Ransom Reprogram Office.
Jesse here, today a group of us got our turn to check out Ransom Café and the Clean Machine. We hung around the camp, helping out Bev and Ralph in the kitchen until they drove us to the Ransom Café. We were at a new location and it was set up in a church rec center. We helped out by serving food and got the opportunity to talk to people, which proved to be a life changing experience for all of us. We even sang one of our concert choir songs for the people eating and a man sang us one back. This same man, Robbie, said two love poems to Madi and sold a bag of fresh picked blackberries to Brody. Even though it was pouring rain, we had so many people come out that we ran out of all the delicious food. All in all, it was a truly enriching experience for everyone (shoutout Katie Rempel).
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Jordan visiting at the Ransom Cafe. |
Makenna and Austin at the Ransom Reprogram offices. |
RJC's finished projects. |
Makenna here, on (Thursday ) the Habitat for Humanity site we spent the day painting the interior of a house. Which was pretty convenient for the day being considering it was a cloudy and gloomy day and it started of with a thunderstorm. We painted the whole interior of the house an off white color. I think some of us got more pant on our clothes than on the walls because we left that site pretty white covered from head to toe. It was a very well spent day and we ended up getting two coats of paint on the whole house.
Also today the 4 who went with Debbie spent the day cutting trees down in town at her church in Mobile and hauling them back to Camp Christian. This evening we got to just spend the evening hanging out at camp and starting to pack up. We are sad that our trip comes to a closing tomorrow afternoon and we leave on our long drive back home. Friday morning our entire group will be at the same site in Mobile. We are hoping to get a good 1/2 day of work done before returning to the camp to prepare for departure.
The trip has been an amazing learning experience and a blast and a half! We all are wishing that it could be longer and we cannot wait to come home and share our adventures with all of you!