April 19 and 20. Well the Barrington group continued to work on Niki's and Henry's house. Lets see, in Henry's house, they painted two rooms, replaced two windows in the living room, fixed the wall holes on the back and front stairwells, build a banister on the front porch (first floor), and repaired the "stoop" in the front of the house. They also cleaned the front porch and grounds of the house. They also repaired the ceiling in the kitchen and bought Henry and Diane a new refrigerator.

This group hoped to paint more, but the remaing 6 rooms will have to be repainted at a later time by another group.

At Niki's house, they continued the work on the siding. About 80% of the house has been covered with new siding. Some of this was missing siding before the project started.

In the end at Niki's house, they repaired the flooring (sub floor), repaired a lot of termite damage, installed about 5 new windows including a new double door on the back of the second floor. The fixing of the siding included installation of OSB on the exterior of the house, covering by tyvex and then installation of siding wall boards.

The group from Compassionate Ministries also refoofed most of the roof including the flat portion on the front of the building. The roof replacement will be finished on Monday when they return.

At Lena's house, they completed the headers above the interior doors. They also went out this afternoon (Friday) and helped Royden install sheet rock on the ceiling of the interior rooms. It is hard to do this by yourself so they wanted to help Royden do something he needed help with.

Lena on Thursday night provided a crawfish boil for the team from Barrington and Niki and Lena's family.

This little project was quite expensive. We spent more money in this week of home rebuilding then ever before, over $14,000. This included two sizzer lifts, scaffolding, three dumps of a dump ben, siding, tyvex, roofing, and flooring. We do not quite know where it will come from. There is hope that that all three families can repay some or hopefully all of the supply costs.

But it was a great week for the Barrington people. Both Niki's and Henry's house were located close to the church so the travel time was minimized. Niki's house was so large that teams could be depoyed simultaneously on the floor, the roof, inside stud repair, exterior siding, etc. At Henry's house, the team could paint the house while others were working on the front porch.

All the crew worked all the time and even into the night on Tuesday night at Lena's. They got in a "groove" and began working well together in little teams. The sizzor lifts and scaffolding helped very much in getting to the heights needed to do the work.

The months of advance preparation in taking photos of the houses paid off by making the team well prepared for the work when they came. And all the material was present when they arrived so they could get right to work.

The only real problem was the large amount of money that was expended making all this possible.

We pray that God will provide.

Cliff Nunn