Weekend Recap

This past Thursday-Saturday, I went with Noonday's youth to Helen, GA to work with Georgia Mountain Resort Ministries.  We had such a great trip!  Thursday and Friday we scraped paint off of an elderly couple's house to prepare it for another team that will be coming in to paint.  I was really impressed with our students-- while at the work site they worked!  And while hanging out, they were hanging out with each other (as opposed to texting/facebooking the whole time).

There isn't too much to say about scraping paint... except that it might be more fun than watching paint dry!  We had some great conversations with the owners of the home, and we were blessed with great weather (other than an afternoon thunderstorm Thursday).  Other than the few workers on the roof, we were all in shade most of the time.

Friday after finishing up at the site, I was able to play soccer tennis (so fun) in the parking lot of the hotel with one of the teenagers... I had forgotten how much I enjoy kicking the ball around. While a couple of us played with the soccer ball, others threw a frisbee or jumped in the pool.  Then on Saturday we floated down the Chattahoochee River. The trip was just great quality time with the group... It was good to "get outside ourselves" and do something to benefit someone else, and to relax and spend time together.