November 27 – December 17, 2021 SOWER Project #17 Phoenix Christian Preparatory School, Phoenix, AZ

Home of the Cougars! It’s great to be back to school again! We served here in April of 2020 during the Covid beginnings (feel free to go check out that blog). The school was closed then but we had lots to do and worked hard. This year everything is open and students and faculty are busy from sunup to sunset! We met together with Jeff Blake (Superintendent), Veronica (Volunteer Coordinator), and others for a great welcome and orientation meeting.

We’re serving with Mil & Linda Sutter (SOA’s), Jim and Faye Smith (GL’s), and Ralph and Lella Bledsoe. What a great team of SOWERs!

The unique thing about “camping” while serving with SOWERs is that you get to park in some interesting places. Here we are camped for the month literally on the track! We had front row seats to all the field activities. Soccer, baseball, T-ball, football, shot-put, and of course running. We got our exercise just watching!

Our “to-do” list started with all of us working at the pre-school/elementary facilitites.

The gals were asked to clean and organize different areas. Then they were asked to re-do several of the bulletin boards (something new to all of them!) They did a great job and received many compliments!

The guys found some ladders and went to work replacing many of the light bulbs in the chapel and cafeteria, mainly converting old fixtures to be able to use LED’s. The lights in the cafeteria must have been out and dim for quite some time because one of the little elementary kiddos exclaimed, “WOW look at all the lights!!” The cook remarked, “ah-oh, now I can see the dirty places!”

What a treat! On the weekend we found out that “Christmas With The Chosen” was showing at a nearby movie theater. We don’t often get to enjoy a big screen theater so off we went! It was a very enjoyable outing and a great production!

Next week – more “to do’s”! The list they gave us was organic – meaning as things got crossed off, more were added. We kept very busy, what a great variety!

While the ladies were landscaping the elementary school courtyard…

The guys were rebuilding a “barn door” over at the preschool building.

Dennis was asked to paint one of the props for the upcoming Christmas program.

We sure enjoyed our evenings and weekends! Fellowshipping and sharing life together is one of the highlights of serving in Kingdom work with other SOWER’s!

Talk about work! Check out what these ladies accomplished! From start to finish, “clean and organize the student council’s storage shed. There were several trips to the dumpsters! Looks great ladies!

There were multiple sinks, cabinets, and leaks to fix. We also updated the bathrooms in the elementary building to be “touchless” with new faucets and air hand dryers. The leak under the sink in the science lab was probably the most challenging.

We even got to fix tricycles at the pre-school playground! How fun!

So many amazing adventures and memories here at PCPS! The staff here are great hosts and lots of fun! Rest assured that we saved work to do for the next incoming team. Lord willing, we’ll be back again someday soon!