Friday morning

Good morning from Shamokin.  Presenting an update on our exciting Friday morning.  This morning we rose before the sun, got our yummy breakfast of breakfast sandwiches into us, and were off.  Pastor Bob teaches a philosophy class to seniors at the local high school and invited us to come and answer some of his student's questions about life in Canada, in Ontario and in Hamilton.  After passing through the "warden" as Gerald called her (the attendance lady), we headed on up to the second floor.  For some of us, it had been a long time since the call of school bells and the rush to classes!  We were welcomed warmly by Pastor Bob's students who even laid out a feast for us, complete with iced tea and "supies",  a local Italian homemade dried sausage.  We answered questions about our health care system, our politics, Justin Bieber, Rob Ford and what we like to do for entertainment and the differences and similarities between schools.  We didn't even know what a sophomore is but we learned!  After class was done, some of us were interviewed about life in Canada, our likes and dislikes here in the States for the local school tv station.  We drove home past a local gas station where we picked up several copies of the "News Item", the local paper - there our team was on the front page, with a nice accompanying article about what we were up to in Shamokin and Mount Carmel.  I think everyone was pretty excited to be minor "celebrities" and to share our work with the community.  We pray too that the Lord may move the hearts of more people to help in this work of restoration!  

Yummy breakfast sandwiches

Mount Carmel Junior and Senior High School

We're actually in school on our week off????!!!!

The school

Our front page appearance - Alex was a little sad they cut him out of the picture - though he wasn't sure why he was posing "wiping" the wall after it was just painted!