Nic and Max valiantly rose early to volunteer at Sowers Harvest Café. As our habit has become during our time in State College, the rest of us rose a bit later to journey into the Café to dine on a delicious breakfast of coffee, grillatillas, omelets, and muffins.
The Café is stocked with games, so some challenged each other to rounds of mancala as we absorbed the morning.
After breakfast, those who were not working at the Café met with Bryant and Ernest. We prayed for those we would meet today, got oriented to our time of surveying, gathered materials, and headed to the university campus.
One walking through the center of Penn State’s campus today could see Faith Builders’ students sprinkled across chairs, patio tables, and stone walls, engaged in conversation with students and scholars.
Though we worked atop The Hill on Tuesday, work remained. Ernest and Cathy sent us to the lawn and the floors, bringing order to disorder. We trimmed bushes, weeded flower beds, cleaned tables and chairs, and removed spiders and their webs from soffit.
Janelle, a long-time staff person at Sowers Harvest Café, welcomed us and her colleagues to her home for a meal. We ended the day with cornhole, laughter, roasting hotdogs over the fire, and drinking hot cider in the amber glow of the fire.
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