Hope City reborn

We have not moved! This CA project is temporary. We are still living and accepting teams in Birmingham, AL. You can schedule your team here.
We've got rain again today so we're holed up in the hotel room. Sophie is teaching Kim her schoolwork and I'm doing this and figuring out some material needs for the home. The trusses are scheduled for Tues afternoon so we're not gonna be ready with the rain forecast for tomorrow also. The truck delivering them was going to set them on the walls but we'll figure out another way now. 
Yesterday we went to Middletown Bible Church, one of the churches involved in the relief effort for the Valley Fire. It was good to be with other believers. They asked first time visitors to raise their hands and give a report so we gave them our names and told them we were representing the "Hope City" that was coming to town and working on a house for them. This home is one of the first being built after the fire and seeing it go up will give the residents hope. You can talk all you want but seeing something is being done and rebuilding is actually taking place, well, that shows you're serious. (Hmmmm, Christians are you listening?! Being in the Bible belt back in AL, everybody can talk the talk of Jesus but the silence of the walk is deafening!) 
Anyway, we've come full circle in our work with Hope City; that being the first place we worked with volunteers in disaster rebuilding. Kevin Cox with Hope Crisis Response Network (HCRN) is leading the charge out here in setting up a new Hope City. There are again many partners involved, with Team Lake County being the fiscal agent recognized by the National Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD). This area is where Kevin is originally from so he already has familiarity with the region along with family, friends and contacts. If you want to know more about this Hope City, you can visit their website here. We're glad to be a part of getting this off the ground (pun intended) and wish them well!
  
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Map where we're located currently....