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

Sunday-we FINALLY made it

Anole lizard on tree at church

Brady, Matt, Lance, and Zach approaching front door

At Bass Pro Shop just killing time before check-in

Sweating in the morning HEAT of Miami

didn't get much sleep last night, but we got to the beach early Sunday morning. we were going to go to one of the Miami beaches but we decided to go to Fort Lauderdale. It had a very nice calm beach. we had a great time at the beach, especially when we tried to see who would go out the farthest. After we went to the beach, we stopped at the Outdoor world. We ate at Mcdonalds then we went to the church.

-Lance Hoch

We arrived at the church today at 4:45 it is a nice church. we settled into to our room one for guys one for girls. there are 18 guys in one small room. altogether there are 35 people here counting DOOR leaders. we met the other church groups they are really cool people and funny. our DOOR leaders are nice people to. we played some games, learned rules, did skits, settled down then went to bed.

-Zack Handshoe

Saturday:Driving Day

Sorry the blog didn't start until today, had issues using McDonald's WiFi due to system errors at McD's.

So being in a van for 24 hours with 10 other people doesn't sound very fun but i asure you that we made the best of it. We cranked up the radio and rocked out to some good music, some songs that Tye knew very well and like he would sing and simi dance to and that was very fun to watch. We also played some stupid but fun games to pass the time. And the only other thing we could do was sleep witch we did some of but most of us were up all night but i guess the importent thing is we didn't kill each other.

-Tammy Morris