In July, we had 41 volunteers come and work 933.75 hours. They came from the following churches, traveling to CREW on their own dime and their own time.
Zion Lutheran Church (http://www.zionloveland.com/) and Our Saviors Lutheran Church (http://www.greeleylutheran.org/ ) sent 25 representatives from Greeley
and Loveland Colorado. This group consisted of 7 adults (Mike, Lisa, Greg, Ray, Linda, Vicky, Cody) and 16 youth (Lindsey, Ellie, Kristen F, Amity, Ryan F, Vicky, Ashley, Chelsea, Ben, Marie, Rebecca, Jessica, Chris, Colin, Reed, Ray). This group worked on 6 different projects for the week of July 8, 2007 thru July 14, 2007. They finished some drywall for a yong man with life threatening cancer and his family-John, spread some shell rock for Irma, built a wheel chair ramp for an extremely overweight married man whose wife is also very overweight and thier three children- Layless, demolished a mobile home for a single mom with five children, including twins- Tamisha, and installed skirting for Frank and an elderly non-english speaking Mexican woman living on social security with grown son who currently collecting unemployment-Maria.
The First Parish of Westwood (Methodist) (http://www.firstparishwestwood.org/) sent a group of 14 volunteers from Westwood Massachusetts. This group consisted of 4 adults(Josh, Jeannie, Katie, and Brendan) and 8 youth(Scott, Mason, Melissa, Julia, Lauren, Kevin, Amy, and David) and were joined by Nicholas from our local New Harvest Church. This group worked on 5 projects the week of July 15, 2007 thru July 21, 2007. They completed the skirting for F. Rosario, completed the wheel chair ramp for L. Maldonado, installed skirting for P. Jones, installed drywall and repaired a roof for J. Samples, and helped remove some debris for CREW. This group was joined by Nichloas, a young man from the New Harvest Church (http://www.newharvest.net/) here locally.
Our individual volunteer from Michigan, Art also worked during this time. Art has been here since the first week of December 2006. He worked on 3 projects. He installed 2 vanities for Leapold, worked on a roof for Melba, and made some roof repairs for Bee.
Friday, August 10, 2007
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