Long Awaited Update

I know all of you have been wait­ing on news from the con­gre­ga­tion here in Edisto…  I apol­o­gize for tak­ing so long.  In this case, no news is good news.  We have been steadily work­ing on the build­ing here, adding to the handrails.  Last week (the first week in July) we worked with the youth from the Cen­tral con­gre­ga­tion in John­son City, Ten­nessee, who made their fourth visit.  This year they were joined by some mem­bers of the Jef­fer­son Avenue con­gre­ga­tion in Cookeville, Ten­nessee.  The nearly fifty folks worked in some hot, humid weather to clear brush from the lot (nearly com­pletely so) and stain and seal the build­ing.  I hope to post many pic­tures in the next few days.

Dur­ing our work last week, we dis­cov­ered that one of the orig­i­nal sup­port posts that we installed to hold up the front porch gable was badly decom­posed.  The post was slightly dam­aged when we installed it a few years ago, but due to the cost involved (the post is an irreg­u­lar cut of heavy lum­ber) we chose to use it any­way.  Now that we are much more expe­ri­enced we were able to fash­ion a new post out of one of the extra logs left over from con­struc­tion of the walls of the build­ing.  Using jacks, we were able to remove the dam­aged post and replace it with a healthy one.  We have jumped one of the hur­dles of long-term con­struc­tion projects:  main­te­nance on prior work.  We some­times won­der if Noah encoun­tered sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances!  Next week we will return to our task of build­ing handrails.