Great time at the Livesay's Farm

Regardless of how this photo looks, everyone had an awesome time at the Livesays. Laura, Milam, Phil, Meredith, and Margaret....THANKS!!! for opening up your home and yard to us. Hope everyone got you their three dollars. Everyone agreed that we need to do that again. It was great.


Sorry that the funny slideshow didn't work Phil and Kelly (sp?) I will be working on a full video of that one in the upcoming days so you will get it soon.

Later.

CD

PS. Oh yeah almost forgot. New photos from BusBoy McCoy and some from the picnic are up on the photo album page. www.sycamorepres.com

Debrief Questions from Phil

Did you do the debrief questions? Here they are if you need them:

1. What did you learn on the worksite
A. about yourself?
B. about your team?
C. about the family you worked for?

2. What did you learn that week from the
A. word?
B. devotions?
C. papers?

3. How can you apply what you learned to
A. bring you in a closer relationship with God?
B. your view of yourself?
C. your love toward others?

Post Trip Message from the Mississippi Blogger

Hey Sycamore Missions Team,

Just wanted to take a minute to thank all of you for letting me take your pictures during our trip. It was great visiting each work team and documenting all of you serving each other and the people of Mississippi.

A few things you should know:

I put up more albums and photos. I have an album for each day of the trip and they are sorted by time the photo was taken in the album so it ends up being a chronological story of our journey. And I keep adding so you should go back and re-look at the different days to see newly added shots. Including the big group shot at the Natchez Riverboat.

I added a new link on the SycamorePres.com website to go straight to the photo albums to make it easier to view them. Check it out.

I would also like to put a call out for all photos taken during the trip. If you get them to me I will post them up. CD's work best. Or get me the camera memory card. Leave them in my box at church. I am planning on putting all the photos on a DVD disk and trying to make copies for each team member so get me your photos by Sunday if you would like yours added to the group disk. You can also email them to me at

c u r t @ d i e m e r . u s

but if you have a lot the CD or card will work better.

I plan on leaving the blog up and open for a while if any of you want to add to it.

If you need another invitation to join the blog, send me an email and I will generate a new invitation to you.

In Christ,
Curt Diemer

Many Hands Make More Than Light Work

Hi All,
Now that we are solidly into the recovery week from our whirlwind workweek, I have made the time to read all of the blogs and look at all of the pictures. Huge round of applause to Curt and all the picture takers out there. This blog was a wonderful idea. The whole trip was absolutly great.

Thanks to leaders and students and Ila. Many hands make more than light work, they make it fun, creative, inspiring, unique, smooth, fun, spiritual, encouraging, easy, refreshing, prductive, educational and fun (did I say it was fun? Because it was fun.).
Thanks "Bus" for bringing Bruiser. Keep on bouncin'!
In Christ,
Phil

update from the bus

Well the bus crew has entered the Final Countdown. After nearly 10 days out of the wonderful state of Virginia, we have returned. We still have about 80 miles to go. The DVD player and TV have been working just as hard as the trusty diesel engine to bring us safely and sanely home, which reminds me...thanks for praying for us.

See you soon!

Well, we're driving on the bus at 7:40 PM and life is going well. Injuries on the bus are high due to maniacal braking by an unnamed adult friend of Mark. On the way out of New Orleans we stopped and took pictures of a movie set for the upcoming Laurence Fishbourne movie Black Water Transit, about gun smugglers coming back to New Orleans 3 weeks after Katrina. At first we thought it was from Katrina, and took lots of pictures. It turns out that they had taken photographs from other areas and worked them into the set. there was an overturned bus, a car impaled on a large pole, a house with one side swept out from under it, abd lots of debris. We walked on the multitude of blood spots from a shootout and saw a church rigged to go mega-boom. A friendly local working on site as a guard told us a little about it and about his house several miles south of the set. There is a church that he saw after the hurricane that had been completely submerged, and its stainglass windows were all still intact.
The bus is still as dangerous now as it was earlier in the week. Mark's maniacal driver friend braked real hard at one point, throwing me and the trusty, diamond-hard radio across the bus and onto the floor. Fortunately, the radio is still intact and we can keep using it for audio on the DVD's.

Here's a pic from the set.

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Last day of construction

Today was the last day of construction work. It was the hottest day of the week. This team performed amazing feats by completing all the trusses on their home. Good job guys! All the teams successfully completed their projects.

I uploaded several new photo albums today. One from Megan's camera. One from today, and one from the very first day of the trip. It seems so long ago. Click here to see them all.

http://picasaweb.google.com/mississippiblogger

Tomorrow, New Orleans and Sunday homeward bound.

You guys have obviously been praying for us because it was an awesome week.

Pray for Jim and Larry who start driving back tomorrow.

CD