Bailey+L

__Vacation Bible School__: 20 hours I helped as a counselor at Grace Presbyterian Church VBS. I mostly helped at the story-telling station. __Philabundance__: 3 hours I sorted snacks into boxes, making sure they met a certain weight restriction. These boxes would be sent to those in need in Philly. __Link Crew__: 4 hours
 * August 2010**

__Relay for Life__: 9 hours
 * 6/3/11**

__Yard clean-up__: 2 hours The lacrosse team went to a Jenkintown home, working to clean up the front and back yards.
 * June 2011**

__Mission trip to Chicago__: 40 hours Through Grace Church and CSM (Center for Student Missions), I worked at a YMCA camp and served at homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Chicago. At the camp, I helped to entertain and play with the kids, trying to keep them organized. We worked at the camp for four hours each morning. Every night, we visited a different soup kitchen or homeless shelter and served food and talked to the residents.
 * July 2011**

__Philabundance__: 3 hours I helped to build food boxes for senior citizens.
 * 10/1**

We spent the day traveling from Jenkintown, PA to Mt. Hope, West Virginia in two 11-passenger vans and an SUV. We left around 10 am from Grace Pres Church, stopping for lunch at a McDonald's. We arrived at about 7 pm--an 8 hour drive. We would be staying at a church in Mt. Hope. We met the minister of the church, and she welcomed us to West Virginia. We went to the house we would be working on for the week. It was a ten/fifteen minute drive from the church. The house owner is a woman named Betty. Her husband Bernie has a serious illness, and her house was in need of a new roof and bathroom renovation. Another mission group had redone the roof the summer before but did a pretty shotty job, so we were here to do it right. We arrived at the house at 9 and started by taking off the shingles, felt, and nails from the roof. We cut plywood to fit spots in the roof that had rotted, causing leaks inside. It was super hot, especially up on the roof and in our jeans. After lunch, we placed the new wood on the roof with power drills, then we rolled out new felt paper, nailing it down to keep it in place. We left the site at quarter of five. (our site director's name was Curt; he runs the program that brings in mission teams to fix homes). Today we began to shingle the roof. Getting started was not as simple as we originally thought. First, we had to put up step flashing (metal/aluminum sheeting) on the side of the house above the lower roof. This would help further protect the house against leaking. We created chalk lines along the roof for guidelines for the shingles. After doing about 25 lines, Kurt (one of the adults/leaders from our church) realized we had to start 12 inches from the edge of the roof rather than 5. We nailed the metal guarding along the edges of the roof, and the shingling process continued. A few people began demo inside of the bathroom. Mary, Kaitlyn, and I chalked the other half of the roof correctly. We did something a bit different today; we drove for 40 minutes to Summersville Church. We thoroughly cleaned a nursery school classroom to get it ready for inspection. We took out all of the toys, furniture, and carpets from the room. We cleaned the walls, toys, and floors with bleach and beat the dust from the rugs. We brought everything back into the room, and it looked great and clean. We went to the Summersville lake after our day of cleaning. We returned to Betty's house today under cloudy and rainy skies. And it rained-- ranging from drizzle to downpour-- for much of the morning. There went our chalk lines. We continued with the shingling, and I worked on the step flashing again, fitting the shingles to the edge of the roof. We returned to the church to eat lunch and get dried off before heading back and working until five thirty. The people working on the front of the roof (I was working on the back) finished their shingling. We almost finished the back, but ran out of shingles. We finished up the shingling! Then I helped to put up some plastic protective material on the underside of the roof's overhang, which was pretty difficult. After lunch, I went back to the church with half of the group to begin cleaning up the church for our departure. After an hour or so, we returned to Betty's to help clean up. We finished cleaning up the church and left for Jenkintown.
 * June 2013**
 * __West Virginia Mission Trip__: 40 hours**
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