Home Sweet Home

A big thank you to all of you who prayed for us throughout the week and a safe trip home for our group.  We all made it back to Nashville around midnight EST last night, and we were thankful to have gotten flights for everyone in the group to be home yesterday/early today.   Thanks to Mark's persistence, some answered prayers, and Frontier's willingness to book us on other airlines we had people flying through Milwaukee, Dallas, or Charlotte to get back to the Nashville airport yesterday evening.  I thought the blog was finished after we left Prairie Lakes, but so many of you have been concerned about our crazy day of travel I wanted to do one more update.

The scenery driving through Minnesota.  Corn and more corn.

A hail storm in Denver had far reaching effects and cancelled our Frontier flight

 Light rail from the airport to the mall.  Very thankful for this transportation so we didn't have to sit in the airport all day.

 Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America

PS- These are pictures from my phone.  The rest you have seen this week have been from our wonderful  trip photographer, Lora!

Worship and Travel

Joyce led Sunday School this morning at Prairie Lakes

 Dean giving his missions testimony

 Plaque of appreciation given to our group by Prairie Lakes

 Pastor DeWayne giving his sermon

 Finished side of the new roof

Celebrating the Rogers' anniversary at Chili's during dinner tonight

We are headed home tomorrow in spite of a few last minute travel changes!

Festival Day

 Gary, Larry, Bruce, and Jeff back on the roof early this morning

 Group pic

 Singing to our birthday girl, Clayton

 Bounce houses all set up

 Jim serving up some popcorn

 Watertown Fire and Rescue brought out a couple of emergency vehicles to show the kids

 Rosie and Homey J aka Susan and Neyland

 Knox and Lora waving as people drove by.  One little boy came later in the day because they waved and told him to come over.

 Frank working hard on the roof

 Carl showing off the heat wave we braved today.  

Festival and VBS Registration

Spreading the word, Volunteering, and more Roofing

 Larry and Bruce ready to go on the roof

 Celebrating the Mynatts' Anniversary

 Nancy spreading the word about the festival

 Pat "vacuuming" at the Women's Resource Center.  A few of the ladies had the opportunity to go volunteer at this emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence for the afternoon.

 Stephanie and Knox cleaning out one of the family visitation rooms

Lora cleaning at the resource center

 Archie driving us around town

Phil and Mark up on the roof

Amazing progress!  This half of the church has a brand new roof.

Progress

 Stephanie and Judy preparing for the festival

 Regena, Jean, and Dean cleaning up from lunch

 We <3 VBS

 Knox, Clayton, and Evan helping with festival prep

 Taking off the old roof

 From the Ranch to the City

 Julie and Judy working on the phone to get radio spots

 The latest in roofing fashion (to protect the cloth chairs)

Installing the new roof

The Work Begins

 Removing the old roof

 Ward adding cobbler to his resume as he works on Phil's boot


Judith and Marty preparing lunch for the crew

 Pastor Gamez and his wife

Dinner with the church

Joyce leading a Bible study on Psalms

Travel Day

A bus ride, two plane rides, a van ride, and sixteen hours later we made it to Watertown, SD!

Landing in Milwaukee

 Joyce and Jeff waiting on the plane to Minneapolis

 Carolyn and Marty

 Dean keeping us entertained in the airport

Lora and Jeremy at McDonalds.  We were excited to find dinner in Hutchinson, MN, halfway between Minneapolis and Watertown