Sunday Night

We have arrived safely in Sault Ste Marie. There are not recent pictures to share with you tonight and time will be limited for posting to the Blog – they run a tight ship at YouthWorks!

Our caravan from Jeffersonville arrived around 2:00PM and we ate lunch at a 1950’s style “burger joint” (the prices, however, did not look like the 1950’s!). St Joseph’s church was not far and we pulled into the parking lot around 3:30 – plenty early. We unloaded the vans, received a tour of the building and then headed for a nearby playground. The church is very nice, and must have been renovated recently. The school building, however, has seen some time pass since its last renovation! We are all in class rooms on the second floor. Over 30 boys in one small class room…not much room to walk in between air mattresses.

The girls have it a little better, spread between two class rooms and with more working “facilities” then the men. We will shower at a recreation center about five minutes from here. Crews have been assigned to work areas and responsibilities including meal prep and clean up. Lights out will be in twenty minutes (11:00 PM) and reveille is at 0700!

Two young people posted comments for the Blog and they will appear below. The consensus is that we love everyone, miss everyone, wish you were here, and we are grateful for your support and excited to get started tomorrow.

There is free time in the afternoon (after showers) and I hope to try to post some pictures at that time. Tonight when we met with “just our kids” we talked about a story Jesus told that is recorded in the Gospel of Luke in the 15th chapter about a rich man and a poor man (named Lazarus). We talked about how easy it is to not notice the poor around us. We also talked about how Jesus seemed to feel when we did so – according to the story – it separates us from God. We’re going to spend some time letting that soak in this week.

Have a good night.

Hugs and Kisses from the Soo!