Last Updated December 7, 2011Staff Blogs

Melissa Chappell

Happy New Year!

We're all back at The Boston Project for the New Year! Catrina LaBrie, who was on this staff this summer, has also joined us. We're so excited to have her.

Also... Spackle. Sand. Sleep. These are the main activities I’ve been a part of since Tuesday. (I mean this in a good way!) We’ve been building an office at Global Ministries for our Service-Learning team. This involved building walls, spackling, sanding, priming and painting. I got to use a jigsaw.

We also at this opportune time have chosen to begin bathroom renovations at one of our community houses. We have a hot pink bathroom counter (it was already there) so we painted an ‘asparagus’ colored wall behind the counter as an accent. The rest of the room is beige/tan and we did the molding and door brown. We're almost done except for some touch up work.

Fun news- we’re hosting a Campus Crusade group today to (1) help us finish painting our new offices and (2) do surveys with throughout our neighborhood. The surveys are evangelistic tools and also get at the heart of what needs our neighbors might have. I am SO excited because it’s the outreach day for the students at their winter conference, and I was involved in Crusade in college.

PS: We were .2 inches away from setting an all-time record this year for most snow in December.

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