Finished in Selma
Quick catch up-email has been tough! We entered into Selma on Friday afternoon after being joined by Dave Jacobs from Auburn and Sherry Cherry from Panama City, Florida. As we got closer to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, we were joined by youth from Dothan UMC and Church Street UMC, Selma. So, close to 50 people crossed the bridge Friday afternoon. Kristina Scott, the Executive Director of the Alabama Poverty Project, came out to speak and share about poverty with the youth. Barry Simmons, a journalist from the United Methodist News Station in Nashville came and took extensive footage of the event. Watching him try to walk backwards while filming us was quite entertaining.
On Saturday, we met up with our staff from Livingston and began an extensive landscaping job for a woman who has been in a nursing home for over a year and has not had enough money to pay to have any keep up her three old antebellum home which has been in her family for years. It was described as a jungle. We were delayed by a serious thunderstorm but then continued on in a light rain. We cut down trees, pulled out vines, and uncovered the shell of what once was a beautiful yard. We only made a dent but it was well worth the effort. We had some fun swinging from old vines, karate chopping beat up trellis forms, and just having fun while working. Although dirty and soaked-it meant the world to us.
This morning we attended worship at Church Street UMC in Selma and listened to a sermon on the “The Trek to the Promised Land”. Most the hymns were about walking or standing…how appropriate for us. Our walk started again after lunch but then nearly was ended as a torrential downpour hit. We were able to wait it out and continue on finishing just in time to make it to dinner.
We are grateful to the UMC churches and United Methodist Children’s home for all of their support! Tomorrow, it is on to Union Town!
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Enjoying the walk!
lisa