End of work day/work week.  We logged 422.5 hours as a team.  Not bad.  We got a lot done.  Dinner is in progress, packing and cleaning started.

We know there are snipes out there!  Jean found a whole nest!  We even checked the Youtube documentaty to be sure we were doing it right!

Today we moved into a higher level of math…FRACTIONS!!!

1 + 1/2 + 1 + 1/2 = 2

We learned that there are many uses for these flood buckets, and more needs than we thought.  We were told of a story how one elderly woman living in a FEMA trailer in New Orleans was so excited to see a flood bucket…because now she had something to sit on in the shower!

We started off with a moving communion service in the new chapel.  Then off to work we went.  Hanging sponges out in the sun to dry.  Diving into a huge cardboard box filled with sponges, headfirst was fun, too.

I walked through a cornfield for the first time today, yet refuse to go snipe hunting.  I am having more fun listening to all the strange descriptions and ridiculous supplies needed to go on this mysterious hunt…

This is just too much fun!

Tina

Tina

Math Correction!

12 trash bags = 1/2

24 trash bags = 1

Quote of the day:

Barb: “I never knew spnges could be so pretty!”

Tina: “Are they this color in nature or do they dye them?”

Thursday Morning….

For the last three weeks, the NOMADS have been converting the old Project Schoolroom into a chapel. It was completed yesterday and devotions this moring will be in the new chapel. What a great time to be here!

We don’t know exactly what we will be doing till we get the center. Yesterday’s priority was QA (quality assurance) on the school kits collected at East Ohio conference last June. While Don, TIna and Mary Ann  worked on flood buckets and John and Barb worked in the new wood shop cutting wood for school desks, the rest of us sorted school kits – dump them out, sort and count the contents and repack for shipping. Some items in the bags were not to spec – wrong type of paper, pencils with advertising, crayons that would melt in the hot container between here and wherever. Deane is our resident gopher – he’s been moving packed boxes from the sorting area to the warehouse and breaking down boxes for recycling, just being the general everything guy.

MMDC math is a bit different here.

• 6 pencils = 1
• 12 trash bags = 1
• 3 notebooks = 1
• 50 clothespins = 1
• 2 pairs of gloves = 1

And you thought you had trouble helping your 4th grader….

Barb just called that reakfast is ready! Polenta casserole! Yum!

Blessings-

Tammy

Good morning! Fun devotions this morning with the NOMADS and now we’re off to work.Then an afternoon in Springfield exploring a bit of Abraham Lincoln’s life.

Tina is getting ready for tonight’s snipe hunt. SHe’s never been on a snipe hunt and we are all very excited for her! The corn fields are great places for snipes to hide.

Tammy

All of the mission volunteers to the Midwest Distribution Center continue to eat well, and enjoy fellowship with each other and the center staff.

We work as Jesus’ hands, knowing that to the world, we are just 14 people, but to people in need, we can be the world.

Our day started out at 8 o’clock with morning devotions lead by a NOMAD volunteer.  NOMADS (Nomads On Mission and Divine Service)  The NOMADS  will have completed a chapel for the center by the time they leave for other places on Thursday.  Everybody used counting skills while packaging flood buckets, school supply kits and health kits.  1 volunteer set up a new saw and repaired a weed whacker.

Todays work is done, we are all safe and in one piece.  Thank you for your prayers and support.

In His service,

MaryAnn

Great morning today. Beautiful thunderstorm went through with only one brief power outage.

More sewing and sorting items donated from East Ohio and West Ohio Conferences. Lots of stuff – flood buckets, health kits, school kits.

Morning devotions with the NOMADS. They are working on a new chapel on teh MMDC campus.

Tammy

End of day One.

Breakfast: waffles. Lunch: seafood salad. Dinner: Tacos.

Some of us gained a pound or two, some of us gained more.

MMDC staff led a brief orientation. We moved quickly through several different projects:

Lawn mowers walked some of us around the grounds.
Sewing machines helped some of us stitch book bags.

School kits were assembled, boxed, sealed and weighed. (Some of these will come back to Ohio with us.)
Flood buckets were disassembled and items counted for inventory
(across the states there a different interpretations of the instructions for flood buckets).
There is a band of NOMADS here who are doing some carpentry work, and painting work (turning the old wood shop into a chapel).
We are surrounded on three sides by acres of corn, which looks tall, green and healthy.

DWK

Everyone arrived safely. Enjoyed mantling service and dinner of baked potato bar. Then a grocery run.

Ready to work tomorrow morning at 8:30!!!!!

Tammy