Western North Carolina Mission Group Returns

The 2012 Western North Carolina Mission crew consisted of:

• Don Presson
• Reese Presson
• Roz Walker
• Phyllis Acton
• David Spivey
• Stephanie Spivey
• Bob Moore
• Lisa Moore
• Ann Cannon
• Ray Cannon
• Mark Earnhardt
• John Harvey

We departed Charlotte on 10/4/2012 around 1:30 pm arriving at the Bryson City Presbyterian Church around 5:30 pm. We had dinner with Terry and Mark Hanna and some of their congregation at the church and discussed the projects for the trip. We had 6 projects lined up to work on. After dinner and discussion we traveled to the Sabbath House where we were staying during the trip. We worked on Friday and Saturday on the projects below. We had a cook out with the BCPC congregation on Saturday Night, which we enjoyed a great deal. On Sunday we packed up and left the Sabbath House around 9:15 am, headed into BC and had breakfast at the local grill. We attended church services at BCPC and took part in the World Communion Sunday. It was great. We had a fantastic trip and accomplished a lot. Our crew worked and played well together. We worked with Mark and 5 others from the BCPC. They were a great bunch to travel and work with. Hopefully we will have more participants next year.

The people we assisted and the projects we worked on:

Brenda & Junior Ledford, 70s, live in a well maintained single wide trailer with a front and rear deck. Front deck is high and has too many steps for them to navigate daily. Rear deck has 3 to 4 steps but is rotten and needs to be replaced. This deck is approximately 8' x 8' with a roof.
Work: We replaced the 7 ' X 8' deck, steps and roof, and prepared the deck for another group to build the ramp. We furnished 90% of the lumber for the ramp, but did not have time to complete it.

Louise Ward (We finished her roof and replaced her back deck last year. She heard we were coming back and asked if we could pressure wash her front deck (covered in slippery green algae) and build a roof over it.
Work: We Cloroxed and pressure washed the deck.

John & Janice Cole (we laid the tile floor in their kitchen last year) They still do not have a working kitchen. They need some clean up in the yard and some fire wood stacked like last year.
Work: We insulated and enclosed the kitchen walls with plywood, corrected some faulty plumbing, ran some wiring for electrical outlets, installed kitchen cabinets, counter tops and appliances. Some of our crew assisted John in yard work and stacking a load of fire wood.

BCPC - Several of the ladies also cleaned up the flower beds, mowed the lawn and painted the benches for the BCPC. It looked great Sunday morning....

Thanks,
Dave Spivey