On Saturday, March 7, a Sojourn SEED group took a couple of hours on Saturday morning to dig a trench for a woman and her mother in the Germantown neighborhood.  The sewage line was backing up into the house and needed a new pipe to take the sewage to the actual sewer.  David McArdle, SEED leader, said the guys had quite an adventure and really had fun with using an axe.

“The best part was all the chopping of tree roots with our axe. Most of us were fighting over who took out the next root. Then we got down to a lot of bricks about a foot underground. That was fun to try to get all of those out of the way. ” says McArdle.

The team also asked for prayer for the woman who is living there taking care of her aging mother.

“We really need some prayer for this woman who lives and takes care of her mom. She just had surgery a couple days ago to remove some blood clots and will have about 6-8 weeks of rehab now. Her mom is pretty frail and doesn’t have much memory left. We hope that we can get her to some groups at the church for folks in the area,”says McArdle.

It is beautiful to see the men of our church family humbling themselves to dealing with other people’s sewage waste, just to be the hands and feet of Christ.  This woman and family could use more help. If anyone would like more information about this family and is interested in helping this family again please contact Nathan Ivey at nivey@sojournchurch.com.