Church Work Party

A young couple at church are expecting very soon and a friend of theirs offered them a house to live in rent free for the summer. The house is in a good spot, near the center of town and right off the main road. Trouble is, the house isn't completed yet: unfinished concrete walls and floors, no windows, and a lot of miscellaneous junk lying around. It's very common for people here to build a house over a period of years (as they get the money) and move in before it's complete. My neighbors down the street finally moved in a couple weeks ago, before the roof was put on. They were bumming when a thunderstorm dumped an inch of rain (the roof was completed two days later). Anyways, there was a lot of work to be done to make the house live-able and not much time until baby arrives so a group of people from church came to help. 8 of us spent 4 hours cleaning construction junk out of the first floor, moving stuff out of the way upstairs, sweeping out the dirt, burning scrap lumber (filled with nails), moving a Soviet era sofa, and shoveling rocks. Good fun. The house was much better off when we left. It was great to see the people from church helping each other out like this.