Ned Erickson: UPDATE Week of August 31

Never has it felt so good to be NEGATIVE!

The Fellows "Interns"

It has been a wild start to the 20-21 Fellows Year. Following doctors orders, we took the precautions of remaining masked and monitoring our symptoms until a week after potential exposure. Then, we all got tested for Covid.

Meghan waits in line at the testing site.

Then came the hard part as we all had to wait on pins and needles while we awaited the results. A few came Thursday evening. The rest came overnight. One by one, we received the news...NEGATIVE!

What a relief!

Sam waits his turn

We are Covid Free! Praise the Lord!!!

The even better news is that Caroline finished out her quarantine on Saturday! Finally, we are all together! Mask-free!

Free at last!

enjoying a celebration breakfast Saturday morning

THE WEEK

Over the weekend, we notified our employers about our plan to mask, monitor and be tested on Wedensday. Several employers had remote working plans in place already and so those Fellows were able to start their jobs on Monday.

Several other employers opted to hold off a week to start the Fellows position, and so we had the pleasure of having Fellows Interns for the Week!!!

Caroline and Hayes were interns extraordinaire!

Moving Furnitiure

Gaining altitude to take in the full picture.

Making house calls

Bailey was our Excel Genius

Ryan and I supervised

Caroline and Caroline led cleaning efforts!

Bryn made prayer buckets

We gave them quite a project list. And we knocked out most of it! Woo Hoo!

Unfortunately for us (not for them or their employers) - they are back to work now. Sigh. The one Fellow we are still working on landing the plane for is Emily. She joined the team in early August and we thought we had something secured but it just fell through. Please join us in prayer that our Plan B (which we have been working on - works out!)

ROUND TABLE

Hef. My partner in crime

Enjoying outdoor dining at Round Table

Thank you Virginia for providing the food!

It was fun to have our first Round Table at the house. It worked perfectly. We ate outside and then worshipped in the lounge then split up in groups to pray for each other. Can't wait to build this tradition into these Fellows.

VIDEO SCAVENGER HUNT

After receiving the great news on Friday morning, we were able to proceed with our planned Video Scavenger Hunt.

The Fellows went ALL OUT!

I may try to send you all of them.

OUT ON THE TOWN

The Fellows headed downtown Saturday night!

Take it to the Bridge

Hef took the ladies out to feed the turtles at Reynolda Village

CELEBRATING BRENDAN AND NATALIE

Game Time

Game On!

What a fun weekend getting to celebrate Brendan and Natalie. (Natalie was a Year 2 Fellow. Brednan was basically a Year 2 Fellow - I spent about as much time with him as I did with the regular Fellows! Ha! It was a long road - but we finally got these two amazing folks hitched!

God showed up big time!