It's already Tuesday!

Hello everyone and thanks for checking out our page! I'm getting in trouble for not "blogging" recently but I'm sure people are more interested in the pictures than they are the writings! But, here we go anyways.... Over the last couple days the students have traveled with their small groups to their worksites each day to complete the tasks that we had lined up for them! Our projects consist of painting jobs, roofing, and tree and brush removal around a house! So far everyone is working great and managing to deal with the heat! The people we are working for are very deserving of our help and are extremely appreciative of everything that the leaders and students are doing! The people we are helping consist of people who have worked hard their entire life but are having trouble getting by at the time, people who are fighting cancer, people who have recently lost a spouse that had been battling cancer, a pregnancy center, and elderly people that really appreciate the help! We have had a great time at Praise & Worship as we hear from Joe and The Band! After praise and worship the participants break out into their small groups and have time to study and discuss the devotion for the day and to express their feelings. We feel like this is a very critical time for all of the participants! It was great the first night when a leader came back and said he had the best night of his life with the small group! We are blessed.... Tonight we will treat the leaders to a Leaders Night Out at the local River-bend Bed & Breakfast, unfortunately they do not get to stay the night... We have a delicious meal planned and a short massage planned for each leader! We hope they will enjoy their time, they deserve it! :D The students will be going to Strikers the local bowling alley for a couple hours of bowling and arcade games, I also hope they enjoy themselves! Overall it's been a great week so far if we set aside the fact of the extreme heat. Please keep us in your prayers! Blessings to you all, Jodi Koops Heartland Serve Host Team