We're Back!

We returned Saturday afternoon around 1 PM and soon scattered in 30-some different directions. There are more picutres to post and stories to tell - which will take us a couple days - so stay tuned!

More pictures

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Dancing the Virginia Reel

On Thursday night COAP threw a Blugrass Concert for all of the week's participants. The band Kentucky Rain played, and Jessica from COAP organized a huge Virginia Reel dance. Here's a video of the Bellarmine Youth Group portion of the reel:

An afternoon off!

We worked half a day Wednesday and took a much-needed break at a little lake high up in the hills. After getting lost on our first attempt, our COAP Carpenter & friend Carroll led us up the right roads - we would have never found it if not for his help!

The lake was rustic, but had a dock and good water for swimming which was what we were looking for. After swimming for a while we had a cookout, followed by prayer time near sunset. It was a great break, and a good time that we all enjoyed.

The foam under part of the dock had come out somehow, so it sank in the water when we walked out on it - and that made for a lot of fun.


Hamburgers & hot dogs from the grill - yum! As you can see, this place was rustic - not picnic tables or grills, not even port-a-lets; but we had a great time.


And as we always do - ending the day with group prayer time:

More painting!

The painting crew got another job after finishing Janice's house - we painted a porch and out-building, and cleaned up the area. Around this point, we were getting a bit tired of painting, but guess what? We went to another house to stain a deck! We got our fill of painting this week.

Here's our picture of the porch we prep'd and painted - we got there Tuesday afternoon and finished Wednesday morning.


And then on Thursday morning we stained this deck. The back side of the deck was a good 20-30 ft off the ground, so we had fun with ladders on this one.


And here's the whole group there:

Finishing a church

We've pretty much been split into two groups down here this week. One of the groups has been fixing up an old church in the area. They finished a vinyl siding job started by a different group last week, and stained a new wood entrance to the church. Here's picture of the whole group that worked on the church:

The siding was about 3/4 of the way up when we started, so this crew got to work up high Monday & Tuesday. They finished the siding and soffits - that's a lot of work!




We're doing soffits!

A painted house

We finished painting Janice's house Tuesday morning - here's the crew (minus Beth & Steve - who were taking pictures). The house turned out really nice - and we were glad to get it done! We painted the aluminum siding, foundation wall, shutters and concrete porch.