It's a Big World ... Shine Brightly


Princeton Presbyterians
Mission Trip to
Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Day Four: Tuesday, July 4
"Independance Day"

 

Happy Independence Day everybody!

Today we worked really hard in the blazing hot sun! The temperature reached approximately 98 degrees with lots of humidity. Today, once again we split up into three groups. One group "the grown up group" (16 years and older) worked on roofing a Habitat for Humanity house. Meanwhile the gals group worked with Ms. Linda, a compassionate old lady who needed some help painting the walls and scrubbing her floors. At the same time, the guys helped, as the boys say the nicest woman on the face of the earth. She needed lattice put on the side of her house, but was more then happy to give the lovely young men all the homemade sweet tea, chili, and fresh watermelon they could eat. After all of the groups escaped the extreme heat and we all showered, we enjoyed a meal that included fried chicken, potato wedges, macaroni salad and more!

After we had our 5 star dinner, we had devotions and discussed our calling from God. We ended the day by taking a walk down to the beach, sticking our feet in the water, and experiencing what I (Scott) would call the most spontaneous and extremely freakishly awesome display of fireworks in the history of fire working. We met up with the Ocean Springs Youth Group and they made us feel right at home and together we celebrated the dreams of our founding fathers (aka the birth of our country!) Then we casually strolled home and are about to retire to our air mattresses for a much needed rest before our 6 o' clock wake up call tomorrow.

Miss you all!

Scott Kerschner and Hannah Davis

Isaiah's Commission
Isaiah 6: 1-8
1In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3And they were calling to one another:
"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory."
4At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

5"Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

6Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7With it he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for."

8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?"
And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"

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1. Joe Wells prys out a furing strip		 2006MT04-02.jpg
2. Jacob and Nick start nails in the boards prior to installation		 2006MT04-03.jpg
3. Ryan screws edge strips onto the lattice
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4. Scott screws in the lattice while several boys support it from behind		 2006MT04-05.jpg
5. The lattice cutout for the garage was a group effort

Meanwhile, back at Linda's home
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6. Virgina, Hannah and Katie clean grout scum from the tiles		 2006MT04-20.jpg
7. Margaret captures the moment on video		 2006MT04-21.jpg
8. Zach inspects his section of tiled floor
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9. Virginia , pail in hand, with Linda in the background		 2006MT04-12.jpg
10. Richard and the job supervisor go over a piece of baseboard molding		 2006MT04-13.jpg
11. Zach paints the inside of the bathroom vanity
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12. Gretchen paints herself into a box		 2006MT04-15.jpg
13. Katie touches up a closet door		 2006MT04-16.jpg
14. A big hairy spider came down the water spout . . . actually it was Richard installing baseboard
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15. Richard and Hannah on molding detail		 2006MT04-18.jpg
16. Katie scrapes out the last bit of paint from the can		 2006MT04-19.jpg
17. Marti, our peerless leader, paints the back of a closet door
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18. Marti and Margaret set fresh grout in the floor tiles		 2006MT04-32.jpg
19. Footwear assortment, with and without feet		 2006MT04-33.jpg
20. A suuden downpour provides a brief respite from the heat
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21. Everyone uses the occasion to get "rainwater fresh"		 2006MT04-35.jpg
22. Margaret gets to the root problem		 2006MT04-36.jpg
23. Katie and Virginia give the driveway a sweep
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24. Hannah gets to curb her enthusiasim		 2006MT04-38.jpg
25. The entire garden clearing crew poses with their trophies		 2006MT04-06.jpg
26. We helped set up for our communal dinner with the Grove City team
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27. After dinner we took to the courtyard for our daily devotions ...		 2006MT04-28.jpg
28. ... and some improv		 2006MT04-29.jpg
29. Nick and Jacob explain the ground rules
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30. which Olivia and Chris ignore		 2006MT04-31.jpg
31. We then broke up in our smaller groups 		2006MT04-32.jpg
32. The Chapel steeple
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33. Manny and Richard, down on the beach for the Ocean Springs fireworks display		 2006MT04-34.jpg
34. Fireworks		 2006MT04-35.jpg
35. Cory and some local that Mary dragooned into taking the group picture
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36. And here's the picture		 2006MT04-17.jpg
37. This is as close as Marti would let them get to the Gulf		 2006MT04-18.jpg
38. Raging testosterone, pumped up from all the fireworks, several of the boys (and one leader) had enough energy left to wrestle.
Photos by Giuliano Chicco and Gretchen Sausville