Team Leader, Robert Richards, report on Tuesday regarding Joplin Mission Team's progress.

Day Two---We have the house complete and started the cutting for the
second one. We have been working at the UMC Warehouse building pre-fab home for
UMC and Habitat for Humanity. Sounds like that is what we will do the rest of
the week. Ivan has asked to do a side job on trouble shooting an electric
problem and he indicates that he might need us to finish out an electric job on
another house.The casseroles have been great, tell everyone thanks for
us. We have had a couple of other people join us for dinner at night and
share. Wed night we have invited our friends from Marshall to participate
in communion. Well thats it for now, its time for lights out, we are
tired.More to come.

Joplin Mission March 16, 2012: Church of the Shepherd's team is spending their last work day in Joplin today. We pray for a safe trip home tomorrow. The photo at the right is what was left after the tornado hit the sanctuary of St. Paul's UMC. One of our previous teams help to build a stage for St. Paul's temporary sanctuary.

This week our current team has spent the majority of their time building frames of houses in a giant warehouse preparing for other teams to reconstruct these frames on individual building sites. So far, the team has finished framing at least 2 homes. They also did some trouble shooting of electrical needs for various homeowners. The building blitz as begun with the lovely weather God has been sending, so sign up for an extended weekend team or June's week long mission team to help offer hope to our brothers and sisters in Joplin! They are putting their trust in us!

March 11-17, 2012: The Joplin Mission Team from Church of the Shepherd will be helping the residents of Joplin, Missouri this week as the warm weather brings the hope of finally doing extensive rebuilding now that most of the clean up has been completed. The team arrived Sunday, March 11, 2012 late afternoon at Byers Avenue United Methodist Church where they will stay until Saturday, March 17, 2012.

Monday, March 12: The team worked in a huge warehouse where experienced carpenters are constructing "prefab" houses for a future building blitz to be done by the Methodist Church and by Habitat for Humanity. These prefabed walls will be taken to various building sites in Joplin where volunteers under the direction or a foreman will reconstruct the walls and flooring. With spring coming so will the building blitz! We need volunteers for COS's April extended weekend mission that will leave Thursday, April 19 around 5:30 and will return Sunday, April 22. Consider taking a Friday off of work to help with the building going on in Joplin!

Picture from February Joplin Mission. New team leaves Sunday, March 11 for a week! Sign up to help out with the teams leaving for extended weekend missions on April 19-22 or May 3-6. The week long mission is June 3-9. Put your faith into action by helping God's children in Joplin. For more information e-mail donna_weaver@coswired.org

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