We arrived in Fort Morgan, Co. at The Sanctuary church on August 1st. We had difficulty getting on the road due to two problems though. We were not able to pull in one of the slides. After trying to find the reason for the malfunction, we were able to alleviate the culprit. The service man that came out to work on our a/c and door awning last week had left his drill on top of the slide but under the awning. That was an easy fix. But then the next problem surfaced. When we tried to retract the jacks one jack would not come up. About an hour later after much sweating and covered in grease Allan was able to manually retract the jack using a drill motor. It was good that Fort Morgan was only an hour away. Here is where we are parked.
On Saturday policemen from numerous counties came to the property here at the church. They were having trials for the drug sniffing police dogs. This was quite interesting to watch.
This is the building we will be working on.
The contractor had the framing of the building almost finished,but on Saturday the weather turned bad with tornado warnings. We pulled in the slides of the RV to lessen the effects of the wind. There is an existing house on the property which has a basement that Allan, Katie and I used twice that day as a storm shelter. After the last warning was lifted, we returned to our MH. Everything was intact. But within 5 minutes we heard a loud noise and knew immediately what had happened. Allan ran out to see the church structure laying on the ground. It was not long and the church staff and many members were there to see the damage. Everyone was thankful that no one was hurt.
Sunday we attended church outside. Even though it has been very hot here on the east side of the Rockies it was cool under the trees. This is where they have their services on good weather days.
We stayed on the property a few more days helping to cut and remove the damaged structure. It will be several more weeks before the building will be back up so we returned to La Salle to hopefully finish the job at Lighthouse Community Church.
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