just a minute of your time...: World Changin

In 2001 I went on my first World Changers project in Casper, Wyoming. I have since been to Puerto Rico, back to Casper, Clovis California, and Sioux City Iowa on projects. Each of those years I served either as a crew encourager or a crew chief working on a house. Last year after working for a year and half to bring it here, World Changers came to Salt Lake City and I served as the Associational Coordinator. The project was amazing! In fact if you check last July's posts you can read about it there. This year World Changers was back in SLC and I was once again involved, this time as Project Coordinator. This year was awesome as well. Here are some first blush numbers from the week:

Participating churches: 11
Number of Crews: 21
Completed Projects: 30
Gospel Presentations: 85
Salvations: 8

Needless to say it has been a very busy couple of weeks for Rachael and I as we have been working to make this project happen. It worked out for us that the project happened during one of Rachael's scheduled off weeks so she could come and keep me from going crazy!

The worst injury of the week wasn't someone who fell of the roof, someone who fell off a ladder, or who impaled himself/herself with a nail gun. All things one would expect when dealing with teenaged construction volunteers. The title of worst injury goes to yours truly for spraining my ankle while setting up a worship service. While it sucked to sprain my ankle a very interesting story comes out of it.

I was given a master key to the school we used and could use that key to open any door of my choosing (ahh the power). I was in the coaches locker room and happened to check a closet and saw some crutches in there. I thought to myself, "It will be good to know where these crutches are if someone needs them." I then sprain my ankle and our first aid coordinator tells me that he is going to get some crutches for me. I tell him of my discovery earlier in the week and give him the key. After getting the crutches he comes back into the room and says, "How much do you wanna bet that we don't have to adjust these at all?" I stood up and checked the crutches and sure enough, they were perfect. God sure knows what he is doing!

There are a lot more stories from the project but I would simply bore you with them, so instead I'll just post a lot of pictures. I'll also start working on another post with some pictures of our trip to Moab. Watch out now!

Some of our summer staff...Randy and Quinton. We also had Danielle, Anna, and Rachel