Today was our work day and much progress was made, here is a brief summary of each of the projects.

Melrose Home (formally project 1) –

The roofing project turned out to be much larger than planned; instead of a simple re-roof, about a ¼ of the roof needed to be torn down and rebuilt. The demolition and about ½ of the rebuilding was completed.

The mother was taken to get her eyes evaluated and fitted for new glasses. Some new clothes were purchased to allow her to prepare for trying to find a job.

Sarah & Christal		Dave

Smith Home (formally project 2) –

The roof was stripped and of course significant water damage was found. A plan was formed to correct leaks above the dwelling and the roof over the garage will be torn down.

Picture was lost in transmission - hopefully we will get it tomorrow.

The Smith and Melrose projects got some unexpected help from Virginia Tech students that are spending spring break serving rural mission. They will join the team again Tuesday.

Ford Home (formally project 3) –

There was good progress on re-sheathing the roof with the team getting about a 1/3 of the roof completed. Some of the Virginia Tech students will join with helping the roof project tomorrow.

The railing on the front porch made good progress on getting the rail system installed on each side.

Ford House Roof

The team was joined this evening with 25 members associated with Westfield Methodist Church from Massachusetts for ice cream (yes, the team is powered with evening ice cream). This is the same church that got the Jenkins started with Rural Mission and led to FPC sending teams to serve. It was great getting to know others that are serving down here.

Ice Cream!