Meet the Gauthier's

Our new group finished our first house on Tuesday. Before we left, the home-owners stopped by to inspect our work. They were so thankful, but we're pretty certain it was our privilege to help them. One of our members was thoughtful and saved a large number of letters between the two, I believe from when he was abroad, as he is a Korean War Veteran. Anyway, it was nice to have met them.

We've since moved on to a new house that's taking more time than we anticipated. Some of it is due to heat, and some is because of new logistical challenges. What was three volunteer teams last week has grown to seventeen this week (somewhere around 380 volunteers). In weeks to come, we hear of numbers as large as 2,000 volunteers. The upside here, of course, is that help is finally coming.

The "Big Board" this afternoon showed that the Recovery Project has completed 69 houses. Only 9,931-ish to go...