Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Work at the D.E.P.O.

Yesterday and today were our first two days working at the D.E.P.O. The D.E.P.O. is like a community center where a lot of the local kids come to hang out. We have been working on some service projects in and around the building in the mornings, and then having fun activities and games for the kids that come in the afternoons.


--------------------Day 1--------------------





One of our service projects is cleaning up this pile of trash beside the D.E.P.O. The guys started to work on this and are making great progress. I will make sure to include an "after" shot when they are finished.



This is the D.E.P.O. building



Charity and I cleaning off the existing D.E.P.O. sign so we can have a new one made 



Donnie and Tom were working on putting a trampoline together for the kids to play on in the afternoon. It ended up being a whole group effort!




Me and Charity working on a new sign


We also had this really neat "water soccer" inflatable that the kids (and Ben and Kevin ;) enjoyed playing in.




Hanging up the new sign



We played tons of card games, including Phase 10









------------------------Day 2-----------------------------

Getting ready to catch the bus!



The guys hard at work clearing the pile





The ladies cleaned out the kitchen at the D.E.P.O



The pile is looking much better already

They filled up this whole dumpster in just one day!

So far everything is going great, so thank you so much for all your prayers. We had 8 new kids who aren't members of the church come to the D.E.P.O. on the first day, and today we had 14 new kids! We are hoping for even more tomorrow, so keep praying we will have kids show up and that God would use our work at the D.E.P.O. for his glory.

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