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Day 3 onsite but new site: http://youtu.be/apqZavcr2RE

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OKC 2014 Day 3

Totally beat tired.

Roy is OK, on antibiotics and showing incredible patience, humility and strength as he finds work to do with one hand.

Met Jeff, a contractor who’s been volunteering his time to Habitat for Humanity for a few weeks now. Really nice, humorous and spiritual man. Actually, he helped rebuild Grace Place Church and helped them get up and running.

Met a couple people today (including Jeff) that happened to be in Los Angeles, during the time of the LA Riots.

Grew to appreciate Jose (Site supervisor)’s significant speed in putting up the decking/roof.

Someone found out that Paul was a site supervisor in Mississippi, and he was soon put to work…

Going to let the video speak for itself.

Here’s the photoshow!

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Quickie Autoawesome Movie from Day 2

On our way to worksite for our second day of work.

Yours truly set his alarm on his computer tablet, unfortunately it was still on Pacific time, so it was 2 hours late to wake him up.

Teamwork-wise, Tommy made me my lunch for the day, so thanks for teamwork.

It’s colder today than tomorrow. 46 degrees at this moment.

and a repeat of our recap from yesterday

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Day 2 first day of work. Recap. Hello Yukon, OK

Okay, here’s our work site for the foreseeable future

Google Maps

We don’t really have a GPS-able address for our work site. It’s in a new development

A lot of little happened today, enjoy the recap video:

Morning

Pam delivered a wonderful devotional, that we have featured here..

Had briefing at the Habitat office. Learned a lot about what’s going on locally. Approximately half of their load is meeting needs of tornado victims as well as supporting their ongoing typical low income housing. Usually volunteers request to work on tornado housing, they were happy that we made it clear we just wanted to work however was needed.

Homes are sold at low interest loans, at cost, even though the appraised value will be higher. Homeowners have to keep the house for 10 years before they can have it 100% released to them from Habitat. Some homes being sold at $80K, including property, but they will be appraised at a higher value. Currently have 16 active builds (that’s a lot). We continue to be impressed with how well Habitat is run.

Site

Arrived at site. Two homes, “regular” (not tornado relief) homes.  Part of Yukon, OK.
We’re wrapping the walls for the brick work (not finishing with OSB), putting up soffits, window installation, Sawzall work and more..

Oh, and the portable toilet started out on its side. We righted it and positioned it well.

Visitors

Pam and Art visited with Pam’s uncle, here from OKC
and Tommy’s car dropped Peter off to meet his High School friend. Apparently both meetings went nicely, and now Pam’s uncle will be supplying us with food on Saturday

Dinner and injuries

Pam, Art and Peter had dinners with their respective family/friends, and the rest of the team retired back to the church.
During dinner, it was decided that one of our team members had an injury that wasn’t healing better than expected for him . Half the team took him to the emergency room/urgent care to have it looked at. Pray for him, and know he’s feeling better now.