{"id":10965,"date":"2022-07-14T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faith-andover.org\/?p=10965"},"modified":"2022-07-14T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T19:03:56","slug":"its-really-about-the-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faith-andover.org\/?p=10965","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Really About The Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/faith-andover.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/elvince.jpg\" alt=\"It\u2019s Really About The Residents\" class=\"wp-image-10966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faith-andover.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/elvince.jpg 720w, https:\/\/faith-andover.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/elvince-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/faith-andover.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/elvince-18x24.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Elvince<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just came back from the youth mission trip in Scranton, PA where the youth and adult leaders did a lot of manual labor \u2013 painting a garage, building a wheelchair ramp, digging post holes, mixing cement, staining a deck, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a lot of work, but by the end of the week, I\u2019m guessing most of our youth and adult leaders would agree \u2013 what made the week meaningful wasn\u2019t only the work, but about the residents for whom we worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My group met Vince \u2013 also known as \u201cElvince\u201d because he had been an Elvis impersonator for decades. Vince is nearly 90 years old, &nbsp;and loved to tell stories about impersonating Elvis to the youth \u2013 including a favorite one about the time he visited Graceland and a security guard mistook him for a resurrected Elvis! Vince needed some work around his house done \u2013 but he really didn\u2019t want us to spend all our time working \u2013 he\u2019d rather we hear his stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another group had planned to add handicap-accessible grab bars and the like to a couple\u2019s home. But a week before they arrived, the woman for whom the grab bars would have been helpful, had to move into a nursing home. So their project was scrapped. Instead, the youth spent the week talking to a heartbroken husband who visited his wife three times\/day to help feed her. They brought him a prayer shawl \u2013 a gift which moved them all to tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A third group was part of a double-crew tasked with building a complicated wheelchair ramp. After a few days of designing and re-designing the ramp, not much was happening outdoors. But inside, a resident spent hours with a youth, talking about how when his son died years ago, he\u2019d lost his faith in God. He said that watching the youth working at his home reminded him of what he had missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes God shows up in ways we don\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pastor Jen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came back from the youth mission trip in Scranton, PA where the youth and adult leaders did a lot of manual labor \u2013 painting a garage, building a wheelchair ramp, digging post holes, mixing cement, staining a deck, and more. 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