Corn MB Church

We started our morning off by attending our partner church’s Sunday morning service! They are currently meeting at the local farmers market and we have the privilege of helping them break ground this week at their new property where they will be building their own building! We had amazing worship & message this morning! After church we got to enjoy lunch and fellowship with the members of the church. We even got to have some fun and ride on the train! We may have been a little too big for it haha!

After church and lunch we got to sit down and work on writing some encouraging cards to the local church, Crossroads, that we are partnering with this week! 

After working on the prayer cards we got to go the our worksite where we will begin to break ground so that we can start working on the foundation of Crossroad Church’s new building! It was such a special time being able to pray blessings and safety over this property and everyone who steps foot on it!

One of the members of the church, Mr. Tim, invited us over to his house to ride on his boat! He even had a golf cart that his wife used to take us on rides to see alligators! We had such a good time!

After we had dinner we got to go to a different member of the church’s house to swim! It was nice to cool down in the water! We are so grateful to serve this community and for how loving and welcoming they have been to us! We are so excited for this week!! 

We started our morning off with a devo led by Mr. Paul at our work site. He spoke about how important it is to have a quiet place to spend time with Jesus, he cares so deeply about this. At the church that we’re helping build they will have a prayer garden that’s created so that you can have a quiet place to spend time with Jesus! 

At our work site we started by clearing out all of the sticks and leaves to start building the prayer garden!

We dug holes today for posts that will be used to create a pavilion! 

Emma completed her hole!

We had some extra food from our meals this week, so today we packed up our leftovers and dropped them off to the Angle House here in Whiteville! We’re so glad that it’s not going to waste!

We ended the night getting some yummy ice cream!! It was nice to have a cold treat after a long work day!

We finished digging 14 holes today!! 

While part of the team helped set up the posts in the holes the others helped with the prayer garden! We helped create the walls for the side of the sidewalk. 

All 14 posts are up and ready for inspection!

Hint: It’s on his hat ;)

Before heading out today we prayed for the inspection that will be happening tomorrow morning! Praying for the Lord’s favor! 

Here’s final result of all the work we’ve done these past two days! We worked so hard and are so honored to be able to serve CrossRoad Church! 

Today is our last day working here and Mr. Paul shared part of his testimony today while sharing a devotional. He also talked about how we all have chains and that God wants to free us from those chains!

Today we poured cement into the holes after we had set up the posts!

Micah and Lane sawed parts of the posts off to make sure that they were 10 feet tall!

While setting up the base of the roof it started pouring down rain! Praise God we were still able to complete the task at hand while getting cooled off by the rain!

We had worship, led by Hannah & a Bible study which was led by Pastor Billy tonight! We said our goodbyes to this awesome community and local church! We sure are going to miss them!

Tonight Pastor billy came & taught us a game called “Have you seen my goat?” It was such a fun game and we got to play a few others as well!

We ended the night in prayer for Pastor Billy, members of the church, their church building and families! Such a special moment!

Started our morning off with some fresh hot donuts! 

Some of us got to see the beach for the first time today! We had fun in the water, looking for shells, throwing a football and frisbee and digging a hole!

After lunch we got to shop a little bit and then go bowling! It was such a fun day!

We are headed home with full hearts! We got to learn what it truly means to be a servant and how we show Gods love through servant hood! Before leaving North Carolina we got to stop by the worksite that we had been working at all week and take a final picture with all the hard work we did! Thank you Jesus for such a good week!