Friendly Baptist Church

After one of the easiest long drives ever, we made it to Madisonville, KY. We got moved in, had our info meeting, and then headed to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner. We had showers and a bit of play time and then were all ready for bed. We're looking forward to meeting the First United Methodist Church family in the morning.

After this morning’s worship service with our host congregation, Madisonville FUMC, we had the opportunity to witness first-hand some of the hardship that struck the area of Dawson Springs (which is where we’ll be serving this week).

It was an incredible and sobering moment to be able to stand in what was once a home, and pray for the incredible strength of this community as well as the work God has given us to do here alongside them.

He’s not done, they’re not done, and we’ve only just begun!!

Starting today, some of our crew is serving with Operation Blessing to help them build a home in the Dawson Springs community for a family who lost theirs in the December 10th tornado.

From painting to sweeping to putting in insulation, it’s gonna be a busy but fun day of service with the people here!

Lacy took the lead this morning and shared a devotion with the group to start our day. She did an amazing job focusing our attention on Jesus and why we are here. 

To get ready for some student-led worship, a handful of us got to practicing as soon as we could tonight! We can’t wait to see God move in these special moments of corporate worship.

Today in Dawson Springs we made huge progress on a porch for Ed and Brandy. Everyone is getting to learn how to frame and put on deck boards. It was a HOT one but we all pushed through. Ed and Brandy even made some amazing brisket and pulled pork for us to eat at lunch!

Continuing where we left off yesterday, our group serving with Operation Blessing got to put up dry wall in the garage (which was a LOT of math and a lot of ladders!) and got to sand down walls inside the house (which involved a lot less math, but still had plenty of the latter).

Our tree cutting group was able to move two of the big trees blocking Ed's path to his pond. Hopefully this will help get the bulldozers he needs back there to clean up the rest of the property.