So, Monday dawned bright and beautiful and lots of folks gathered at the church at 7 a.m. to start on the tear off. We couldn't ask for better weather, as the temps were in the 60's all day. Seeing as I'm off on Mondays I went to help out, and spent most of my time taking pictures. I took a total of 152 throughout the day! WOW! Who'd have thought you could take that many pictures of a roof being torn off?! LOL I must say, even I was surprised at how many I ended up taking. It sure didn't seem like that many when I was taking them. Don't worry, I'm not going to post all 152 pictures! I'll just post the 80 or so that I posted on Facebook . . . Just KIDDING! I'll just post a few here for everyone to see what an AWESOME church family we have and what an impressive job everyone did!
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Our Church!
The shingles in the corner are ones that were sliding over from the other side where the guys were removing them, but the roof was in really BAD shape. We had water coming into the church in numerous places, and there was just no way to patch it any more. A new roof was the only solution.
This is our Pastor! Pastor Will. He had a smile on his face all day long and certainly did not mind all the hard work. I never saw him stop! We are truly blessed to have such an awesome, inspiring Pastor at our church!
From this point, behind the church, you can see how high the roof really is. It's got quite a pitch on it, too, which is evident from the way the guys are using ladders and harnesses while they're up there.
This is from the front of the church.
I just think this is a cool picture, of the shingles being tossed off the roof . . .
I have LOTS more pictures that I will put in an album here for anyone that wants to see them. I've been waiting on this post and wanting to get it out there, so I'm going to leave it as is and move on, so I can post some other stuff.
Julie
Julie
2 comments:
What a blessing that you have people that can lead the volunteers so that the work is done correctly! AND ...... LOVE seeing your pastor "getting his hands dirty" and doing manual labor along with the others. He has a real servant's heart!
Isn't that the greatest thing, Susan? Seeing Pastor Will up there, smiling and happy and feeling blessed to be leading his flock?! Since going to this church, I've realized so many things that were lacking in my faith, and having someone like Pastor Will leading our church, well, it just warms my heart. We are truly blessed to have such as awesome Pastor! I absolutely LOVE listening to his Sermons on Sundays, because he is able to interject so much of REAL life into them, as a man, husband and father. It means so much to me to know that he's dealing with so many of the issues the rest of us are dealing with. That was one of the BIG "issues" I had with Catholic priests. If you don't life it, you can't begin to understand. Pastor Will is just like the rest of us! How cool is that?!
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