What a week...

Hello Friends,

This past week has been one for the record books. There was so much packed into the week that I am not sure I could explain it to you but, I will give it a shot. This past week I played camp director to 12 students from Boston College. They came and spent the week in Scioto county. While here they helped to build a Habitat house.
Before embarking on the trip none of the students knew each other. They were simply riding a bus 19 hours to Portsmouth.
On the first day they were here, we had a groundbreaking/Raising the walls/ get construction started on the house service. At that point the only thing that was at the site was the foundation and the floor. Because of their efforts the house is well under roof.
Everyday area churches and people treated the students and work crew to lunch. On Tuesday, the president of the local university came out to treat them. on Friday the local branch of Community of Christ stepped up and treated the students to lunch.
On Monday night we traveled to a camp fire and sing along. It was out in the middle of no where so it was nice for them to see what the natural sky looks like at night.

On Tuesday night the director of a local addiction recovery center came and talked with them about the area and the leaps and bounds we have come in overcoming. I was not able to join them for this because of the election but I heard nothing but good things.
On Wednesday evening we stuck around the church and played games.....It was a good time....
I did a survey with them before they left trying to get some feedback on how the week went from their point of view. When asked to see if they would do it again, all of them said yes and one person asked to see if they could do it again next week...

And now for some random pictures...

  I have to admit that when they left on Friday I shed a tear. During their stay here they made such a difference in the life of the home owner, in the life of Scioto County Habitat for Humanity and in the life of the community.