Pearlington Report Card

A dynamic report on the activities of the members of C.O.D.R.A. - the Coalition of Disaster Relief Agencies operating in Pearlington, Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Each member group is autonomous and selects its own projects, completely independent of both C.O.D.R.A. and the Pearlington Recovery Center.

04 October, 2006

BRICK Layers of Alabama

What a REMARKABLE weekend!

47 people hit Pearlington the first weekend in September and what a difference they made! First priority was the Ladner home. The Sunday before I stood looking at sheetrock and unfinished mud and cried. The following Sunday I cried because I was looking at a house with white ceilings, "chinchilla" walls, crown moulding with caulk and a shiny white enamel finish, all interior doors and casings installed ( a few still need to be caulked and painted), clean windows, all outlets and switches installed, many of the fixtures, including 3 ceiling fans were installed, a/c vents installed, tile in the bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room and pantry, toilets installed. Within the next two weeks, the flooring and cabinets will be installed. Then they will be very close to moving in.

George and Margaret never stopped smiling. We had a shower for them Saturday night. They opened presents for an hour – kitchen towels, cooking utensils, baking pots and pans, dishes, eating utensils, lamps, sheets, towels, a comforter. Then the ladies who were in charge of the shower brought out a brand new dishwasher, a hood microwave, an Oreck vacuum cleaner, a check to the mattress company for a mattress and box springs and money to purchase a bed and end tables.

It was amazing.

God accomplished so much this weekend through his servants that it was hard for me to keep up with it all, but here were some of the other accomplishments:

Dawson house – plumbing installed underneath the house, windows framed in, sheetrock installed Bell house – trim finished (caulked and painted), master bathroom counter installed, crown moulding installed, caulked and trimmed, light fixtures installed, a/c vents installed, phone line
reconnected
Barnhart house – trim installed (and caulked), broken pipe finished, phone line installed, attic door built and installed, upstairs room wired, vaulted ceiling painted
Hipps/O’Reilly house – entire downstairs and vaulted ceiling painted
Phyllis Smith house – a/c hooked up, final rooms painted, door casings installed, cabinets
installed
Moss house – cabinets and trim varnished, bathroom tile grouted, bathrooms painted, cabinets
installed
Diaz house – upstairs sheetrock taped, mudded, sanded, and mudded a second time,
windows donated
Charlie Acker house – sheetrock taped and mudded – first coat, plumbing finished and
toilet installed
Church – odd jobs completed, including organizing the materials store room

God was glorified that weekend. Hearts were blessed. Mine almost exploded watching God’s servants at work.

Thank you,
Jennifer Johnson
BRICK Layers (Believers Rebuilding In Christ's Kingdom) Huntsville, AL
REBUILDING PEARLINGTON....one brick at a time
http://www.pearlingtonms.com

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