The Third Church (Pella, IA) IMPACT team made their way all over Abaco today! Hear from Brad, Loren, and Chad as they share about the Farmer’s Market, the Murphy Town Community Center, home projects, the Central Abaco Primary School, and more!
1 John 3:18 – Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with action and in truth.
Today was a day of project work. We started the day by having a little time to stop and visit the Farmers Market in downtown Marsh Harbour, where Driftwood Farms sells their produce goods along with others. We also visited the Murphy Town Community Center; Many Hands IMPACT teams from last year helped to renovate and finish this building and its surrounding land. It was nice to see projects that have been completed in the past, filled with people and fellowship involving the community. Then we separated into the school support and work groups for the day.
From there the work group stopped and visited our first work site at the home of Zhivargo. Tim shared with us Zhivargo’s story of a car wreck and being paralyzed, but witnessed him walking under his own strength and able to see the true healing of God when doctors told him he would never walk again. It was great to hear Zhivargo share with us all what he had planted in his garden and the pride he took in the things he is growing showed through the big smile he wore on his face. After that, we proceeded down the road and visited another work site: Tamara’s house. We were welcomed at the front door when we arrived by a warm smile along with a fresh pan of banana bread as a thank you.
Afterwards, we divided into two teams and decided to conquer tasks on both houses with our larger group. A larger portion of the group stayed at Tamara’s house and began hanging sheet rock, mudding, taping, and painting concrete walls. A smaller group went back to Zhivargo’s house and started to hang sheet rock and work on some plumbing for half the house.
Some members of the team went to the school with Carrie Veenstra and helped in the library along with spending one on one time with the young kids in the classroom. It sounded like relationships were made and they felt extremely welcomed by the hugs and excitement of the children to have guests there to visit.
A highlight of all was the random stop of a passing car, rolling down their window and a young man sharing how appreciative the community is of the work being done by Many Hands. Community members see the MH vans and love what is being done and all the help. That filled our hearts to know the appreciation and the IMPACT this is having in the community along with in us.
— Brad Terpstra, Loren Van Wyk and Chad Van Wyk
