Our caravans are spread so expect up to a 30 minute wait

Merced. 7:00?

Lunching in bakersfield, possible eta around seven?

Barstow.

Sorry about that post...phone didn't send it until just now!

After driving several hours through a snowstorm (!) We are safely in kingman arizona.

On the road to kingman arizona!

Matt and Anders braving the elements today.

Mural on youth center

Alexis and Aggie tiling the kitchen at the youth center.

Working on a roof with one of the local guys.

Much warmer today - and no wind! Making great progress on all the sites! A new site was added today: major repairs on a home that one of the helpers at the youth center grew up in. He had to flee his home because of domestic violence and has been sleeping off and on at the youth center. The family left the home because it was falling apart and signed it over to him, but it's not really habitable at this point. The goal is for our group to start the repairs and have other groups this summer finish. The team heading there was super excited as they left this morning!

Still working on getting pictures up....hopefully we'll get some up later today.

Greetings everyone! Finally time for a longer update as I am actually on a computer right now at the youth center. It's been quite beautiful here, cold and windy at night but pretty nice during the day. It snowed a little on us last night at Good Shepherd, but quite a few people braved the elements and played hacky sack and basketball outside before our evening program. This morning we were able to get everything organized (eventually) and get out to the worksites. Lots of great work is going on this week. My group is putting down flooring (tile and laminate) in the nearly-completed youth center. Another group is doing roofing for a family with a roof so leaky that it seems like it's raining indoors. Another group today cleaned up the yard of a blind woman who was under threat of losing her home if it wasn't cleaned up (it's in a government project and one of the requirements of living there is keeping the yard clean). In the evening everyone converged on the youth center and had a cookout while the kids and teens from the neighborhood mingled with all of us. Please continue to pray that everyone will stay healthy and have meaningful interactions! Sorry I still can't post pictures1

our construction gurus scouted work sites. Sorry no pictures yet- I don't have data access at the mission.

Went to a Navajo church this morning, settled into Good Shepherd Mission (our lodgings for the week), did an orientation, and hiked at Window Rock while

Here in flagstaff! Ready to get a good nights sleep before heading to church in Navajo country in the morning!

2 hours from flagstaff. All well.

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