On Saturday, April 13, team Beta spent a day helping Carlos and Migdalia DeJesus. Carlos and Migdalia bought a former school building and turned part of it into a community center and a small shop. They give out free clothing and food to needy people in their community. Some of the building has been finished, but most of it still needs to be cleaned out.
At a fairly early hour, we piled into the DRAMA van and started the three hour drive. It was lots of fun, full of laugher and silly jokes, even though two of our members were unable to come.
We arrived in good time and soon got down to work. We spent most of the morning shoveling extra gravel from the parking lot and along the side of the road and using it to fix up their gravel drive. Then we washed the baseboards and swept the floor of their large auditorium before stopping for the delicious lunch Migdalia made for us.
After lunch, a few of us mopped the auditorium while the rest of us moved on to different jobs. Some worked on vacuuming out a large room in an unfinished part of the building, while the rest worked on moving boxes from a musty, mildew-filled room in the basement.
We spent the last hour of our afternoon “spring cleaning” the finished part the building, washing baseboards, sweeping, and mopping. Before leaving, we spent some time praying for Carlos and Migdalia and their ministry. Then we said goodbye and packed ourselves back into the van for the ride home.
We had an awesome time helping out Carlos and Migdalia, and were blessed to be able to partner with them in their ministry!

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