TPP - Monday

Today was our first day at our worksite and our students poured their hearts out into the work that they were doing today.  The first thing that we did today was meet our homeowner Ms. Linda Thompson who lives with her sister who has cerebral palsy and her two sons Larry and Deshaun.   I will get to the different projects that we are working on this week but first I want to share one way that God has already been working on our students hearts.  On Sunday night Ray’s message to the students was about being right with God and before we can truly love ourselves and others we have to be right God.  It doesn’t matter if we put a mask on to make it look like everything is going good what matters in our life in what is happening inside.  When we pulled up to Ms. Linda’s house it looked great from the outside, there was some nice flours, mulch, and other plants but when you walked inside you saw how desperately Ms. Linda need the help from the Philadelphia Project.  Thankfully Ms. Linda was willing to humble herself and call out to the Project and ask for their assistance to help repair her home.  That is exactly what we have to do in our spiritual lives when we are not right with God.  God already knows when things are not right but we have to be willing to humble ourselves and call out for his help and that might mean talking with someone else to support us in the journey to restoration. It was such a God moment to see our students make this connection during our huddle time after being on the work site.

So what are we working on this week? 

Caleb and William trimmed an evergreen tree outside the front of the house.

I think at some point throughout the day everyone was outback helping to re-landscape the backyard but Joe was out back all day going hard doing whatever needed to be done; pulling weeds, digging up bricks, raking debris, spraying insects, you name it he was doing it alongside everyone else!

Inside the house Madalyn and Willow alongside the occasionally William when he was not helping Caleb were in charge of priming the ceiling in the living room.  They taped the room, covered everything with plastic, and painted the entire ceiling except for maybe a one square foot area where I got them started.  It was awesome to see them get so much work done.

Upstairs, Vincent, Andy  and Steven were scraping paint and sanding a wall like there was no tomorrow but thankfully there is a tomorrow because there is still more scraping and painting to do and then there will be plenty of painting for them to do as well.

I think that was all of the projects that we worked on today but there will be some new ones tomorrow.

Thanks for all prayers and please leave comments for the students I will pass them on to them!