Day 2 and I can't feel my toes!

Well, we are wrapping up day two here in Fort Collins, Colorado and it has been a busy one. We split up into two teams today...the men were busying working on fixing the plumbing issue in the basement where the Parrishes have church and installing some much needed storage for their garage to hold church items. I was not with them today...but I know they were up and busy starting very early today!

The ladies and the kids spent the morning organizing the children's church items and prepping for the meals we will be cooking for the weekend activities with the church. Then this afternoon we spent the day at the Fort Collins Rescue Mission. This is a place where Living Rock serves the homeless. Half of our group painted the kitchen and the other half of us cleaned out the SUB ZERO freezer and reorganized it so they could find all of the donated food items. Jake Piland and I spent about 3 hours inside that freezer and I am just now getting feeling back in my toes. I am really wishing we took the time to dig my winter coat out of storage before coming here. At Mission Arlington working in the freezer in the summer is a reward for a hard working teenager....in Fort Collins it seems like torture when it is 40 outside. Then after working at the mission we went and bought all of the food items for a neighborhood cook out tomorrow, Sunday Baptism Lunch and for elementary teacher goodie bags for Tuesday.

This evening we had a great dinner in Old Town Fort Collins as a team. While our bodies are here our hearts and minds are at home with the Berry family. We took time as a team to pray for them tonight. Our hearts are aching that we are so far from home and from supporting this family during this uncertain moment. Please join us in praying for them tonight...and begging God for mercy and healing!

Tomorrow we will help with the community Founder's Day Celebration. We will start early in the morning setting up the block party trailer and helping vendors get their booths up and ready. This will be the majority of the day but we will cap it off with a neighborhood cookout at the Parrish house. Please keep praying for our team....and the Berry family.