Working at Glendale United Methodist Church

Yesterday we started our work here at the Glendale Church.  We were given a tour of the church facilities on Monday morning with information regarding the projects requested.  We then met to discuss the "plan" and who would work on each project.

Bob is working with JW replacing a door.  The church is very old and they are finding that nothing is square which caused some challenges for them.  They almost finished this project today and will be moving on to something else tomorrow.  Some of the guys have a major amount of tools with them.  JW and his wife, Arlene, are fulltimers also.  They pull a fifth-wheel with a Freightliner Heavy Duty Truck and it is full of power tools and supplies.  JW and Arlene have done over 50 Nomads projects (working some as leaders) so are very experienced.

Our leaders are Jack and Betty.  They also have done over 55 projects and come with many tools.  Here they are during our lunch break:

Paige has spent the past two days preparing and painting a lady's washroom which is near a huge meeting room in the basement (aka Dungeon).  This is in a building that is used for Boy Scout and AA meetings (they have 12 steps down to this meeting room; all of them numbered!).  We have finished this washroom and it is looking great.  We've told everyone there will be an Open House here tomorrow!  We will move on to paint the secretary's office and then back to the Dungeon to paint the men's washroom.

We work hard throughout the day but have 2 breaks and a lunch furnished by the church for us.  Here we are at today's soup and sandwich lunch:

We have two more days to work this week - I'm looking forward to Friday already!  This physical work sure tires us out!  Tomorrow night we're going to meet Paula, Phil, and Elsie at Famous Dave's for supper and to get our mail from her.  It will be nice to see them!