Today the North Carolina team had breakfast at
our housing site before heading out to the Brian Center Health/ Rehabilitation Center to begin our day off. At the Brian Center our team split up into smaller groups to perform various tasks around the facility including washing windows, painting the back fence, cleaning the outdoor patio, and organizing files for the staff. All of these chores were completed alongside having the opportunity to sing songs to some of the patients in the dementia ward and visiting with many of the patients at the Center. This is always a favorite activity for our team, as we had the opportunity to talk with elderly patients who have great perspectives on life and are very willing to talk with middle school students. The Brian Center was very generous as they provided us lunch as a "thank you" for our help throughout the morning. For the afternoon we split up and half of the team went to Sliding Rock, a natural rock water slide, while the other half went to Looking Glass Falls, a water fall with a swimming hole nearby. After switching locations so that each half of the team got to experience both locations, everyone came back together to head to dinner and porch time. Tonight we had both at Megan May's farm. Megan was a summer intern two years ago and she and her family graciously allowed us to have porch time at the farm on our day off. Nick gave the porch time talk tonight on why our faith makes sense while we are down here in North Carolina. After porch time, we headed back to the housing site. While it was great to have a day off for some fun, the team is excited to get back to work tomorrow as we get closer to finishing up our projects and continue to be amazed at what God is doing in and through our team here in North Carolina.
