Heading Home!

Well the Nashville team is packing up and getting ready to eat one last breakfast here at the hotel before we take off back to Indiana! We had an awesome fun day yesterday at Nashville Shores Waterpark that was filled with lots of fun and water but also lots of conversations and discussions about all that God did this week. It was a great way to spend our last day here in Nashville.

We'll be hopping on the bus here in about 45 minutes to take off with an estimated arrival time at GCC by 8 pm. We'll have updates posted through twitter and facebook but if we are going to be way off then 8 we'll have everyone call.

DC: @dccurry (Web address: www.twitter.com/dccurry)
John: @JohnKeim (Web address: www.twitter.com/johnkeim)

The team is sad to be leaving but I think they're excited to see their family and loved ones and to bring all that God did here in Nashville back with us! Thanks for praying, thanks for following along, thanks for commenting! There will likely be some more pictures from the last couple days uploaded at some point so feel free to check back on the blog!

Day 4 Photos!

Here's the photos from Day 4!

In this slideshow you'll see some crazy face photos! I asked them this question: "If you could make one face for the world to see what would it be?" Then immediately i said, "I WANT TO SEE IT NOW!" and snapped the photo of whatever face they made! We had SO MUCH fun with this one!

Also you'll see some photos at the end from B.B. Kings restaurant in downtown Nashville where we ate and watch some of a Live music that was played by Stacy Mitchart (THEY WERE GOOD!) Our students LOVED this!

ENJOY!

UNBELIEVABLE

That is the only word I can use to describe the team yesterday, UNBELIEVABLE! As DC mentioned we were heading out to the Beechbend neighborhood to finish up some projects and did we ever!

Yesterday we;
-finished a siding tearoff we started the other day
-got a trampoline out of a very high tree on the river bank
-painted a shed
-painted the interior of a new garage
-painted the wood trim throughout an entire house
-painted the ENTIRE first floor of a big house with primer, walls and ceilings
-assembled some new furniture for one homeowner
-helped reorganize a United Way distribution center

All that plus all the cleanup was done in just under 7 hours! Amazingly that's become the norm for this team, they are such a hard working group. We've never once heard a single person complain all week long either. The team has so much joy in serving others that it's inspiring and encouraging to everyone we've come into contact with. Every single partner or homeowner was overwhelmed with gratitude for all that we were able to accomplish!

After all that hard work we've got a team fun day planned for today! So glad to be a part of NASHVILLE 10!

Jam packed day of work!!

I started the upload for the photos last night and they never loaded so we're at it again. Photo's from yesterday will be posted just after dinnertime when we get back to the hotel.

Lots of work to do today! We're headed back out to the neighborhood we kicked this trip off at to finish up some of the projects that are ready for completion. I'm stoked and I know the students are too!

There's nothing like finishing a project you started! This will be a great day...JAM PACKED with projects but pretty much like everything else, our students will make it look like a piece of cake!

They dominate projects! It's awesome to be apart of!

Tuesday Recap

Yet another amazing workday with the Nashville team! We headed back to Lighthouse Ministries to try and finish up the projects we didn't get to yesterday. The team jumped back in doing a lot of painting again and some of the team was helping to remodel one of the apartments to be handicap accessible. When it's all added up we were able to bring 400 man-hours in just 2 days to help further the vision of this ministry.

After cleaning up, Rick Bryant, the director at Lighthouse, thanked the team with great sincerity for all the work we had done. Rick mentioned on several occasions how much joy the team had while working so hard throughout two hot days. He also spoke about one of the recent chapels they had at Lighthouse and how we're called to amplify our lives, to turn it up so others can see and hear Jesus through our lives. Rick affirmed the team that that was exactly what they had been doing on this trip, they were amplifying the impact of their life through serving Jesus.

It was a great day and we even got done early so after some much needed showers, we headed downtown Nashville to spend some time checking out the city and having dinner at a great restaurant with a live blues band! It was some seriously awesome team time!

Now today we're getting ready to head back out to work on some of the houses affected by the flood!

Day 3 Photos!

Today's photo's are coming soon!!! :)

A few thoughts this morning.

Hey Hey everybody!!! Just an FYI, I'll be posting some videos today of the place we've been working yesterday and today.

Hope you all are doing well at home, we love and miss you guys but are having a blast here in NASHVILLE.

Here's a couple of the things I love about this group:

• We have an AMAZING team-bond we have!
• Everyone is VERY encouraging.
• They work HARD!!
• They don't complain!
• They're all looking for ways to learn more about God.
• They group loves to have fun!!
• They're considerate of people at the places we're working! (Being friendly, talking to them)

Here's some things I love about this trip:

• It reminds a lot of us of home so working in this environment strikes a big cord.
• People are recognizing that the God of Granger Community Church is a nationwide God..."he's everywhere" was the language used by some students in debrief.
• Southern people are some of the nicest people in the world. (I miss this about Texas)
• The work is challenging...it brings out our limitations VERY quickly!
• Partnering with a great church.