Colorado Mission Trip

Between October 2 and October 15, 2013 I travelled to Colorado on a mission to serve some of the people of that region. The priority was to serve Patricia Starr on the western slope of Colorado by doing tasks that needed done before the winter weather rolled in. Although some tasks were achieved there remains much to do and my hopes are that families that are more local to the area might step up and sacrifice their time and labor to achieve these projects. Another purpose of the mission was to meet and encourage families in the region to come together amongst themselves in faith, hope and charity. Such matters as these are sometimes best done in person, face to face, for those that may become discouraged or need that extra attention.

I arrived in the Denver area on the evening of October 2nd, and was blessed by Roberta Ratcliff with lodging at her house. My intent had been to spend a few days in the Denver area before heading to the west side, but after arriving and seeing that the timing to meet most of the families in the Denver area was not opportune, I decided to continue on to the west side and schedule my visit in the Denver area for my return trip.

I arrived at Patricia's place on the evening of the 3rd and set up camp.

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The next morning didn't look promising.

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But it cleared up and was nice enough the next few days to get some work done. I cleared away the brush from the fenceline along the front and side of the property in preparation to lay up some chicken wire to keep the preditors out.

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I was blessed to have Bob Hogan show up to help.

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He cleared out many of the small trees that were close to the fence line

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and helped lay up the chicken wire.

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It was a great honor to see such sacrifice from Bob who had never met either Patricia nor myself.

The wood was ordered and delivered so I upgraded the wood rack with a small shelter built with stuff I found laying around.