Wednesday October 8, 2008

 

 

Helpers at the TFC Office

 

Yesterday ten students, a teacher, and two chaperons arrived by school bus at 8:45 a.m. to work at TFC’s International Office and Shop.

Cerwin didn’t take a picture of every project they completed, but I thought he did a pretty good job. 

 

 

They cleaned shop windows…

 

 

 

 

 

 

…and office windows.

 

 

 

 

They swept, vacummed, and washed floors in the shop and office.  They emptied trash, cleaned bathrooms, carried boxes of old files to a storage trailer, and weeded flower beds.

 

 

They finished everything, and had time left before the bus returned, so Cerwin provided supplies for washing and waxing one of the old tractors.

 

 

This tractor was originally placed with the chapel at our Connecticut location, however, when ownership changed, the chapel had to be moved.

 

 

From there it went to Canaan, New York, however, we could not find a staff person to man it on a regular basis, so the chapel was transferred to Canada and the tractor came back to the shop.

 

 

Tractors used to be necessary for storing heating fuel for chapels, however, we now use electric, so most chapels do not need a tractor.  When the truck stop has space, and a tractor is available, it makes a chapel look like a complete rig.

 

 

These guys did a fabulous job of cleaning and polishing our 1973 Peterbilt.

 

 

Now it’s ready for its next assignment.

 

 

Director of Chaplains, Bunny O’Hare (left), says goodbye as they board the school bus at 2:20 p.m.

Cerwin says, “Fantastic job!”