House Blessings

On Sunday we had house blessings for four houses on one of our blocks. We began working on these four homes in late fall and pushed hard to get them completed by Christmas. We called for final inspections on them right around Christmas time. We had a couple small things to fix after the inspections on two of them and we passed the final inspection on the first time on the other two homes! Two of the homeowners have moved in are getting settled back in their neighborhood. The other two ladies haven't moved in yet because of the last snow storm we had and now the ice storm. I think one of them is going to be moving in as soon as the weather cooperates long enough. It is really exciting to drive through the block and see lights on and personal touches to the houses. On Sunday, our flood recovery team, Gayle, and a few others gathered in each of the four homes to welcome the homeowners back and say a blessing for the home. Gayle is the Pastor at Lovely Lane UMC and she lead the house blessings for us. Each home owner was presented with a prayer shawl made by local church members. They were all very thankful and grateful for all of the volunteers that put so much work into their houses to make them homes.