Wow, I can't believe we are about 12 hours away from leaving to head back to our second home! Ill be honest, between Pat and Myself, we have honestly a combined 15 trips to one of our favorite towns. (For all of you current peer ministers, this is NOT where you make any age reference jokes! Or Pat and I will have something in store when we get back)
Like I mentioned a couple of days ago, we have 12 people going this year. Anchoring the trip is Bob (it just never gets old haha!) Mr. Griffin (Don't worry Allie we will take good care of him) Pat, Lora and Brett! Then repping the college students we have Nemethy, K Fultz, and Casey. And then we have 4 newbies making the trek out to Clintwood in Christina Lind, Joey Gollinger, Carly Noel and Libby Reuland. A solid 12 people that are going to be doing a lot of work.
A little background info on our goals and tasks when we get to Clintwood for all of you that might not fully understand. Clintwood is a small coal mining town in the Northwest part of Virginia. Right smack dab in the middle of the Appalacchia Mountains. Every year, we work for Sister Jean Korkisch, who runs a housing program called St. Joseph's Housing Project. Sister has done an amazing job for a ton of years running the program and we are so blessed and lucky to call her our friend! Each year she gives us worksites with clients that we go for the entire week and work. Whether its building ramps, roofing, painting, caulking, more painting, etc we always get a ton of stuff done! We have 3 sites this year (even though we have 12 people!) and that means plenty of work for the whole crew.
There are always new adventures and great stories every year. Talking with Pat just earlier, we can't wait for the crazy stories and days work in the upcoming days. We miss everyone who couldn't make the trek this year but you are there in spirit and in our BLOG!!
Okay that is it for now. Gotta go pack the cars, get the car top carriers (Allie if the cartop falls off this year like it did last, we might just leave it on the side of the road haha) and get some Zzzzz's. 4 am is quite an early wake up call I'd say. We will blog from the road tomorrow
Until then, peace and love
-Clintwood Crew '11
Friday, June 3, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Only a couple days out!!
Hello everyone!
Just wanted to welcome all of you to the official blog of Mission Trip 2011!! We have decided after much deliberation (if only that were really true) to make this year's edition of Mission Trip as interactive as possible! We know that many of our good friends and fellow Mission participants and leaders could not make it this year. So we decided to keep you all informed and up to date on everything Clintwood! Please share this with friends and family if you so choose!
The 2011 edition of Clintwood is going to be much smaller this year! I can't believe we only have a total of 12 going. Yikes. (For all of you 2008 participants, you will appreciate that size of a group. And btw a total shout out to all of those members! Candy, Bob, Pat, Lora, Kerr, Teej, John Kerr, Monica, Rice, Crotty, Manade and Me!)
But I digress, we are going to make sure we post as much about the worksites, video clips, before and after pictures, breaks and bbq pictures, and all the great stories and times that come from the amazing week that is Mission. Please feel free to add suggestions or keep us laughing with funny comments :) The week will commence Sat June 4th at about 4 am :/
I'll write back in a couple of days before we leave! Hope everyone enjoyed Memorial Day weekend
keep cool my babies,
Miko
Just wanted to welcome all of you to the official blog of Mission Trip 2011!! We have decided after much deliberation (if only that were really true) to make this year's edition of Mission Trip as interactive as possible! We know that many of our good friends and fellow Mission participants and leaders could not make it this year. So we decided to keep you all informed and up to date on everything Clintwood! Please share this with friends and family if you so choose!
The 2011 edition of Clintwood is going to be much smaller this year! I can't believe we only have a total of 12 going. Yikes. (For all of you 2008 participants, you will appreciate that size of a group. And btw a total shout out to all of those members! Candy, Bob, Pat, Lora, Kerr, Teej, John Kerr, Monica, Rice, Crotty, Manade and Me!)
But I digress, we are going to make sure we post as much about the worksites, video clips, before and after pictures, breaks and bbq pictures, and all the great stories and times that come from the amazing week that is Mission. Please feel free to add suggestions or keep us laughing with funny comments :) The week will commence Sat June 4th at about 4 am :/
I'll write back in a couple of days before we leave! Hope everyone enjoyed Memorial Day weekend
keep cool my babies,
Miko
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