Day 1

We started Day 1 with worship, devotional time, and breakfast! This will be our morning routine throughout the week.  We encourage you to follow along with our devotionals (they are located on the tab at the top of the screen).

We spent the morning getting trucks and trailers loaded up and then headed out to the worksites.

"All Good, All His, All In" and "Y.I.E.L.D." started their first day at the Boys and Girls Club of Decatur.  The team started right away prepping their gymnasium for a fresh coat of paint.  Scaffolding was assembled and tarps placed on the floor.  Eager hearts and hands worked together as they got ready for the big job ahead of them.

This team also got the chance to listen to a speaker that came to speak to the kiddos that frequent the Boys and Girls Club on the power of goals and making the right choices.  These family groups have been gifted a great opportunity to serve as well as build relationships with the local kiddos and community members that will be present at this site all week.

"Tom Tom GPS" and "God's Special Misfits" started their week at Thomas Foster's home, the director of the Boys and Girls Club of Decatur.  The Covenant mission team also worked at this site last year.

This team is staining the front deck of the house.  They also spent their morning ripping out the bathroom floor and prepping to put in new flooring.  They have a big task at hand, but were all so positive and willing to do what they had to do to get started today.

These groups will also be ripping out the mudroom flooring and putting in new flooring in that part of the house.

"Peaches" is working at Bernice Cook's house building a wheelchair ramp.  This group was hard at work today framing, building, and weeding.  

Lots of teamwork took place as boards were cut, nailed and screwed. And the initiative of this family group was evident as they did yard work and even washed a car.

And on a hot, hard-working day, there's always time for a little ice cream treat!

We're Here!

Mission Trip 2013 Begins!!

We are so excited that Mission Trip 2013 is finally here!

We will be serving in Decatur, Alabama this week and staying at St. Luke UMC.

Our theme for this week is "Surrender" with our theme song being "We Surrender".  

Our focus verse is Proverbs 3:5-6...

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

We head to Alabama with 61 individuals willing and ready to serve!

Please keep us in your prayers and follow along with our journey this week.  This blog will have daily updates with pictures and details and we will also be updating Covenant's Facebook page frequently with photos.

You will also notice at the top of this page, a place to find the names of the mission team, our schedule for the week, and our daily devotionals we will study each morning.

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We appreciate you and your support!

Mission Trip 2011 Comes to a Close

We had an amazing week in Hartselle, Alabama! You can definitely see how the Holy Spirit moved through our group based on the testimonies we heard yesterday in church.  May those words refresh you and remind you of how powerful our God is and how He longs to work in you and through you!

 

Thank you tremendously for all the prayers!

Day 6-Our Day in Pictures!

Our final day here in Hartselle was a busy one! Each family team had multiple jobs and responsibilities they took on to help at various work sites and back at camp.  The two work sites that still had work to be accomplished were completed and the camp was cleaned and organized to prepare for our departure tomorrow.  Our evening will consist of a dinner out together, worship, time in our family groups for small group discussion, and a final night of fellowship.

Be sure to read below for an update of each family group's hard work from today!  Also, make sure to follow along with our final devotional tomorrow morning.

We greatly appreciate your prayers and support from home this week...they have truly made an impact! Please be in prayer for our safe travels as we head back home tomorrow morning.

Day 6-Iron Servants & G2 T.O.

These two teams spent their final day in VBS here in Hartselle.  They were sad to leave the kiddos they had met and impacted this week.  The kids in the VBS weren't quite ready to say goodbye to this team which had led "the best VBS that had ever come to their daycare".

The Iron Servants & G2 T.O. also spent part of their day cleaning and organizing the dining hall and our main dormitories.

This team has had a busy week and impacted many lives with the love of Christ!

Day 6-Amassed with the Spirit

Amassed with the Spirit spent their morning helping out around camp.  They cleaned and organized some of the buildings on the campsite.  This team also used teamwork to clean out and organize the trailers to get ready for our trip home.

Amassed with the Spirit spent the rest of their afternoon at Joe and Charlee's home with the Incredible Knights of Christ and the Transformers in order to meet Joe and welcome him home from a nursing home.  They couldn't wait to see his reaction to a home that was no more accessible for him to maneuver throughout in a wheelchair.