They have a three bedroom house that is in bad need of a paint job. We get right to work. The house is on a hill, extended extension ladders are needed to get to all of the painted surface. We scrape the old paint off, remove the shutters and get to painting. The weather is hot and the shade under the carport is inviting.
Breaks get longer and longer.
Some of the youth spend time in extended conversation with the owners and all seem especially rewarded from this. Toward the mid-afternoon, the group realizes they can finish the job, and we do. After the bus ride home, the group gathers for a de-briefing of the day's activity. On the bus, several youth take the clues provided and figure out we're going to a monastery. Believe it or not, the Russian Orthodox Monastery of the Glorious Ascension lies in North Georgia, near the town of Resaca.