TCOGV Progress Week Three and Four

Today is Thanksgiving Day. The RVers were invited to share Thanksgiving Dinner with a very sweet couple and their family from the church. We had delicious food and wonderful fellowship.

The first of the week we had cold rainy weather but the men made more progress in building offices and classrooms.  Here are progress pictures.

Dean has skill at cutting just the right length of all these boards. 

I believe these were finished during the third week. 

The electrical wiring is pulled through each week as framing is completed. 

Next week is our last week here. The men should be able to start laying the floor down for the second level.  The second level will be a large room for the youth. 

Week two progress at TCOGV

Today is a beautiful day here in East Texas. Just wish I felt better.  With the weather changing from a hard freeze last week to 80 degree at the end of the week, I have a cold.  It happens every time we have a drastic weather change.  But on to the progress the men accomplished last week on the project.

Walls starting to go up. This is the first room being framed in. 

Hall way from outside door. 

There was a change in plans, so Glenn is cutting another door.  (Plans changes often around here). 

Burl pulling the electrical wire. 

Ken taking out an old fan. The upper floor will be used by the youth, and this fan had to go. It can be used elsewhere. 

Glenn was building another wall (see on the floor) but first assistance was needed. 

On the weekend we spent a little time around a fire. 

First Week Progress --The Church of Garden Valley (TCOGV)

This is our first full week at TCOGV.

Here is a picture of the church buildings. 

The building on the far right is building three.  Glenn is working in that building. The project is to make Sunday School rooms on the bottom level and build an upper level for the youth. 

The building in the middle is used as the sanctuary.  Called building two.

The building on the left of page is building one and presently used for storage. 

Here is inside of building one.  Or at lease one half of the building. 

This large roll up door will be closed in with a wall. 

Studs for the wall. 

This part of the building will have a lower level for class rooms with a hallway in between and rooms on each side. The top level will be built for the youth room. 

This is only half or less actually of the building. 

The room in the pictures are to the right of this hallway. On the left is another large room that has a swimming pool. 

Lumber for the project. And another view of the room. 

These buildings were one used as a boat manufacturing business. 

There is a lot going on here. I hope to keep up with the progress in this blog.  We are here for the month of November. 

Arrived in Texas

We arrived in Lindale, Texas to work on a MAPS RV project at The Church of Garden Valley. We plan to be here for the month of November. 

Since we arrived yesterday afternoon, we finished setting up our home this morning. 

As you can see it was a beautiful day and the temp was to get up to the high 60's.  

Around 10:00, we decided to check out the Canton Flea Market. Wow, what a surprise!!

I don't know why, but I had never heard of Canton Trade Days, but I was soon to find out...

"It is the oldest, largest continually operating outdoor flea market in the USA, operates on hundreds of acres, and provides spaces for about 6,000 vendors."

Canton Trade Days is more than just a typical flea market. You can find most anything here. 

There were buildings and easy pop up tents as far as the eye could see.  The traffic was well directed and most parking was $5.00. 

There were scores and scores of people.  It kind of reminded me of the Charleston Market only on a much, much, much larger scale. 

Needless to say, we didn't see it all.  Here is a little map to give a small glimps of the grounds. 

We had a fun day!!