Monday- time to get our hands dirty

Tye, Brad, Matt hanging out in front of church

SWAT gathering for or evening devotional

Tammy and Lance cleaning up after lunch at Chamillus House

Before this blog gets underway i will explane to the best of my abbillities on how D.O.O.R opperates. On the day of ariaval our SWAT was seperated into two teams. The people in team #1 are Tye, Lance, Matt, Sammie, and Tammy. The people in team #2 are Zeke, Katie, Brady, Brad, Cameron, and Zach. With two teams we will have a smaller group so that we could have a better experience individually. I was with Team two. We went to the Easter Seals nursing home. Once our group got there we found out that we would be doing something that we werent going to do in the first place but we were ok with that. Our group went around the entire comlplex picking up garbage, sticks and leaves and prepping an area to be painted. We got to Easter Seals around 9:30 and rode the city bus back and forth, which isnt terrible

-Brady Bosely

Today was the first day we were able to interact with people. My team, team 1 went to a homless/drug rehabilitation center called Chamillus house. We road an above ground subway thing to and from the shelter, that was pretty cool. When we got to the shelter there were homless people sitting on benches before you get to the kitchen. They were all nice and saying hello and everything, but it was just different. When we got to the kitchen they immediately put us to work. We washed tables, cut 6 boxes of canlope and cut a ton of government meat, put the desserts and drinks out and got things ready for when they served lunch. The first group that we served was only homless people. The second group lived at the shelter and were in a drug rehab program. Lance and Matt served drinks, and Tammy and I passed out desserts. For the first group the workers there told Tammy and I to just hand them the food that was in our hand. They said they are not allowed to pick what they want. They said that they will get mad, but just stand your ground. I looked at Tye like "What are you making me do?!" It went ok for the most part. Tammy held the tray and I gave them their food. Some of them kept pushing for what they wanted, but I stood my ground. I was even cursed at by one man. It made me a little angry. Not because he was cursing at me but because, the people at the shelter were giving them food. they didnt' have too but they were, and that man was mad because he got a cookie instead of a cupcake. Other than that, all of the people were really nice. We got to know a couple of them. Over all, today was a really good experience .

-Sammie Cragun