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No television, no Internet, not much cell phone service.... and it is amazing the knitting you can get done.  Last Wednesday night a group of us from my church left for West Virginia on a mission trip. This is the second year that we have gone there to work. World Vision has an amazing ministry there helping to meet the physical needs of many people and partnering with the local churches to meet their spiritual needs also. You can read more about it by clicking the link above or here http://worldvisionusprograms.org/appalachia.html Personally, I always thought of World Vision as some big, impersonal organization, until we got involved there. Their work is amazing! We stay at the Barbour County 4-H Camp. Brings back church camp memories! Below are pics of the warehouse. They receive surplus from companies and individuals...  and process it through as needed. This is a pic of the Teacher Resource Center. Everything here has been donated by companies and individua...

Hang on for the synopsis of a week...another crazy one of course, that is all that we have around here these days. Last Wednesday was spent preparing to leave on the mission trip to Appalachia.  As with all trip preparations in my life, everything seems to go wrong the day before I leave causing me to make such rash statements as "This is it, I am not going on another mission trip, there is too much to do around here, this time I really mean it and yes, I know I say this every time but I mean it THIS IS IT!!!"  And then I go again.  Back to last Wednesday, somewhere along the line I took a post it note and jotted down everything that happened so that I would not forget.  It is in my purse, my purse is in my car, I was too tired to carry it in the house last night.  I think that might be where my blood pressure medicine is also, I just realized this morning that I have not found that since I arrived home.  Add that to the list for today, I think I might need...