Team No. 7!

What fun we had with this team from Pennsylvania!  The island kids loved Anna and Samuel!

Then and now!

Left to right: Directors now and then of Helene site - Dan Fortune (1998-2004), Larry Benson (2004-  )

                  

               The week just went by too fast!  I am sure some of those           

               mornings or afternoons of carrying wood and equipment,

               hammering, holding boards in place, etc. did not seem that

               fast to the team working!   We only wish we had had more 

               time to spend with the folks who gave their time to come and

               build the pirate ship for the playground.  It will be a constant 

               reminder of how much you care! 

     Many days of fun ahead!

   The smile tells it all!  

   And the scrap wood pieces make great weapons for these "pirates!" 

        getting closer!

   day by day, board by board...

Here's all the hard work to make a lot of extra play for our students!

Ship Ahoy!

(My apologies!  It has been a very long time since I added to my blog!  I am continuing the timeline for our short term mission teams that visited Helene this summer - 2008)  Our next team after the Texas STM was from the state of Washington.  Contributing the special touch for our playground project was a piece of equipment that looks like a pirate ship!  For days students had watched from the back porch of the school to see the hill transformed into a clearing and a concrete block frame and then a wooden form to a fantastic climbing gym.