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Habitat
for Humanity - 2010
April
16, 2010 was a work day
for Habitat for Humanity and a good show by Church of The
Master. Fifteen
workers from Church of The Master donated their time and
talents to help build yet another house for the St. Louis
Community. The volunteers from our church were Dick & Ellen
Kaye Augustine, Chad Beckmann, Norma & Wally Bentrup, Brian
Buttry, Diana
Davis, Gus Elia, Don Fuhrig, Hope & Joe Krewson, Lois Lamar,
Gene Royce, Marilyn
and
Walt
Williams.
The
house they worked on was on Hebert Street, just a few blocks
from Crowne Candy Store. All of these new homes
are energy efficient and environmentally healthy. The home
that was worked on was in
a group
of three with each of them a little bit different. One
of them was a two story house. The one COTM volunteers
worked on was a one story house.
The
day started with a prayer given by one of the leaders.
We were then assigned to our Hourse Leader and his team
of
Crew
Leaders. We were teamed up with volunteers from Parkway
UCC Church. We were given instructions for the day and
then got started. Hope Krewson was assigned as Safety
Officer and went off for a little bit to get instructions
for the
day. Roof trusses were the first order of business. As
that assembly
line
moved
along
the
roof
top
it started freeing up room below for other work. Then interior
walls started going up. One by one they were moved into
place and nailed in. We could see a house coming together.
The woman that will be living in this house was there all
day and along with her friends and family contributed to
the work done that day. When we were nailing in the first
wall to one of the bedrooms we asked her if she
wanted to help put the wall in place. She hopped right
to it and with a little bit of practice was driving in
those 16 penny nails. Some of the team was attaching the
blueboard (foam insulation) to the exterior of the house.
Another team cut the blueboard from the inside to the periphery
of the window openings. By the end of the day everyone
was tired but if you climbed the stairs and walked through
the house you walked through the rooms of the house and
if you looked up you saw all of the roof trusses in place.
Great Job COTM volunteers!
Click
on the Photo below to go to our Photo Gallery. For
more information about al of their great work go to Habitat
for Humanity.
For
more photos of our work day taken by the photographers
that were there go to Photos.
Do
you want to see our work
schedule?
A
special thanks to Don Fuhrig who helped put this team together.
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