This is our second time in Baton Rouge helping out during the Baptist Blitz. Our group comes from New Jersey and we really enjoy meeting people from all walks of life and from all over the globe. There are lots of good times and it’s a great learning experience! I’d much rather spend my vacation time here helping others than on a sandy beach. As long as I am blessed with the means of coming down, you all have a guaranteed fella from Jersey ever year!
My hat goes off to all the volunteers and full time staff here at BR Habitat, they have done a great job making us feel welcome it doesn’t feel like work at all. You guys are great!!!
Anton Nichols – Essex Co., NJ
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Reflections from Volunteers
The privilege of helping other people with such an important part of their life- their home- is a blessing from God. I am thankful for the safe trip here and the beautiful weather that God has sent to us. The new Habitat neighborhood is in a lovely part of town. This will be a good place to raise a family. My prayers are with the next two weeks of work and for the new families as they begin to move in and enjoy this new beginning of their lives. Life is good because God is good!
Jon Lobos- First Baptist Church- Paris, IL
Jon Lobos- First Baptist Church- Paris, IL
Reflections from Volunteers
It has been a privilege to share the work with so many volunteers. You can see in each person the love and sharing towards the work. This has been a challenge for me because it has allowed me to understand part of the English and them to understand part of the Spanish. God Bless everyone.
Nidia Rodriguez
President, The Federation of the Baptist Union of Costa Rica
Nidia Rodriguez
President, The Federation of the Baptist Union of Costa Rica
Reflections from Volunteers
This year’s build is going great. The house we are working on is larger than the other houses so we had to do a different type of build called stick framing. Yet we have managed to catch up to the other houses and are currently putting up trusses to support the roof. I am so glad a I came a second time.
Candace Owen
Third Baptist Church, St. Louis MO
Today it looks like we will get the roof on Maddie’s house and get the windows in. I am enjoying working with the group, as well as eating out with them. I spent this morning putting hurricane plates connecting each roof truss with the wall beneath it. This is to keep hurricanes from lifting the roof from the house. Bonnie has been doing this, too.
Pat, Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, MO.
Candace Owen
Third Baptist Church, St. Louis MO
Today it looks like we will get the roof on Maddie’s house and get the windows in. I am enjoying working with the group, as well as eating out with them. I spent this morning putting hurricane plates connecting each roof truss with the wall beneath it. This is to keep hurricanes from lifting the roof from the house. Bonnie has been doing this, too.
Pat, Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, MO.
Reflections from Volunteers
WOW! What an experience!
My deepest appreciation to my family: my wife Debbie – I love you and miss you; Brad in Springfield – you gotta do this!; Amy, Drew and Carrie –I know I missed some of your events, I’m sorry but this was too cool, thank you for understanding and being good for Mom!
My thanks to Wamego First Baptist Church for allowing me this opportunity of mission – look out next year, you will be challenged to participate!
To share in this experience, to show the love of Jesus to the folks here in Baton Rouge, to the family that will live in this home, and to meet such a great bunch of people that also took a week of their lives to come here to work, it is a life-changing experience!
Anyone that reads this message, please consider participation in one way or another!
Jim Kiker
Wamego First Baptist Church
Wamego, Kansas
I am so thankful that I had this chance to come here. To meet all the wonderful people, amazingly from all over the USA and Costa Rica. The work this group does is awesome. Thank God for nudging me in this direction.
Dawn Reddick
Charleston First Baptist Church
Charleston, IL.
My deepest appreciation to my family: my wife Debbie – I love you and miss you; Brad in Springfield – you gotta do this!; Amy, Drew and Carrie –I know I missed some of your events, I’m sorry but this was too cool, thank you for understanding and being good for Mom!
My thanks to Wamego First Baptist Church for allowing me this opportunity of mission – look out next year, you will be challenged to participate!
To share in this experience, to show the love of Jesus to the folks here in Baton Rouge, to the family that will live in this home, and to meet such a great bunch of people that also took a week of their lives to come here to work, it is a life-changing experience!
Anyone that reads this message, please consider participation in one way or another!
Jim Kiker
Wamego First Baptist Church
Wamego, Kansas
I am so thankful that I had this chance to come here. To meet all the wonderful people, amazingly from all over the USA and Costa Rica. The work this group does is awesome. Thank God for nudging me in this direction.
Dawn Reddick
Charleston First Baptist Church
Charleston, IL.
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