DULAC MISSION - Thursday

STAY Dulac Blog 2011

Thursday morning began early for the working teams at 6:00. The morning birds then had the fun job of waking up everyone else. So we started work with a group of happy and invigorated porch builders, and grumpy painters. That morning I had been assigned to work with Porch Crew #1 at Mrs. Eula’s house. This was very different from the slower and monotonous job of painting the deck. Porch crew #2 was working in scorching heat also. A lot of improvisation and real hard work was required. And all the while as the staining crew started a new project at Mr. James’s house, we began building handrails and supports for a porch cover. After a hard morning full of construction, we ate lunch and listened to Jack as he paraphrased every single line of Forrest Gump. And this rendition included voices for each character as well as motions. We then had a short siesta before VBS. This fun time was washed down with a delicious dinner of rich and hearty beef stew with rice and vegetables. To work off the pounds from dinner, we entered a local Zumba class at the gymnasium next door, allowing some of our youth to show their dance skills in front of a crowd of locals. This workout sufficiently wore us all out, and all were ready to shower, until Mr. David had the great idea to take a field trip in the van to see some gators. After this trip, everyone settled in and got ready for a new day of work the next morning.

The next morning the crews woke up ready to finish the jobs. Everyone was ready to acquire the owners’ sign of approval and happiness. Fortunately all of our new work seemed to fit the needs of the wonderful people who let us come, and work on their property. Unfortunately, neither of the porch crews finished. After all of the crews got back most of us took showers, and prepared for the VBS finale. Every one who came got to listen to the wonderful voices of all of the kids who took part in VBS and ate awesome Jambalaya made by our wonderful UMM. After we all had to pitch in and help clean the gym it took roughly about an hour, and was quite easy. After our evening devotion everyone was just piddling around. This included messing around with ductape, random conversations, and making the final preparations for the thing we all so desperately missed… home.

Nick and “others”

Mr. James and Mr.David giving us direction on staining the porch

Hard at work staining

Mr. James sharing his huricane pictures and stories

Fiesta ......VBS is going great!

Fiesta!  Kids are loving it!

"feeding" the gators!

Robert....who is watching who!

Team building porch cover at Ms. Deloris....framing is done!

Team building porch cover at Ms. Eula's.....lookin good!

Porch at Mr. James

"Ace" Paint Team



Team hard at work!




Mr. James and the "ace" paint team!

Porch cover going up!