| "Operation Colletta" in
Hampton, SC. Colletta lost her home to a fire last
year. Having been blessed with enough insurance money to
cover most of the materials for a new house, but not having
any more, God's network led KC Carter of Missionary Supply to organize
volunteers to build her home. Paul Favreau drove down to
Hampton on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, with two other
Volunteer in Mission members from the Anderson VIM
group. When we got to the site, we found the slab
waiting for us. Others had laid the block walls and
poured the foundation. The stud walls had also been made
ahead of time in the back yard. By Wednesday evening,
even with a small amount of drizzle, the walls had been
set. Thursday saw the wall sheathing up, the trusses
set, and half of the roof decking in place. When we left
at 4pm on Friday, the roof had tarpaper on it, and all the
windows and doors were in place. Colletta was given a
key to her home!
The three of us were
joined by several others from Greenville,
Greer, Columbia and the local Hampton area. We
were fed lunches at the nearby elementary school, one
scrumptious supper by the men of the local Baptist Church, and
we were put up in a beautiful hunting/fishing cabin just a few
miles from Hampton. What a remarkable trip, with
memories of great fellowship and a fantastic feeling of doing
something for a lady who will truly enjoy her new home.
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Help For Haiti...
All United Methodist Churches including
ours are helping to get donations for relief efforts in Haiti.
Please help us in this mission to get this devastated country back
on its feet.
Please donate @
http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?code=418325&id=3018760
You can notate that it will be a credit
for Westminster United Methodist Church.
Our family at Westminster United
Methodist Church is also a receiving site for UMCOR, who is
currently taking up relief kits also being sent to Haiti. Pleaase
visit
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/getconnected/supplies for details.
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