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First week report on Hope’s
house, 02/25/2007, from Perry Miller
Many of you have been following
the progress of Hope's house on Maple Grove's website and
were able to follow the progress daily.
Monday Morning we started with
concrete foundation and by Thursday noon everything in
this first phase was completed. In between that time,
the work consisted of building the house, completing the
exterior with siding, two porches and vinyl porch
railing and paint the entire exterior the final coat
including the steel doors.
Inside the house the electrical,
plumbing, heating and air conditioning has been
installed along with all the insulation walls, floor and
ceiling’s and on Friday morning the Drywall was
delivered and stocked in the house.
I sent a report to the MDS office
listing the names of all the volunteer’s I counted 37
people. This week was just awesome as we worked
together, the spirit, and the cooperation of this group
is surely what leads to the success of building Hopes
house.
It was great to see the
relationship grow with Hope and her families with
everyone throughout the week after a shy encounter of 38
verses 5 you can imagine how you yourself might have
felt, maybe a little intimidated, why they are doing
this, are they going to do a good job.
On Thursday afternoon after the
house was done some left for home and a large group went
to Grand Isle to do a little sight seeing. I received a
call from the chief of the Chitimacha Tribe .Randy lives
in Baton Rouge and had been following the progress also
on Maple Groves website and was just amazed by what he
saw and wanted to convey his thanks to all the
Volunteers. I invited Randy to stop by and meet this
group and he surprised us by jumping in his car and
driving 2 hours, eating a meal with us and participating
in our sharing time around the campfire. Randy said that
before he stopped at our camp site ,he went straight to
the house drove up to it, got out and touched it, he
said he wanted to make sure that it was not just some
photo enhancement and that there really was a house.
I am sorry that 12 people had
already left and did not get to meet Randy and hear him
share about the Chitimacha tribe and to hear him thank
each person for giving up a week to come down and work
on Hope’s house. Hope and Inez were also so disappointed
on Friday that everyone had left and they did not get a
chance to hug each of you and convey their thanks. I
know they thanked many of you throughout the week and
would make the comment that they simply did not have the
words to describe how the felt.
On Friday Afternoon we spent some
time in their Fema Trailer as Hope was making Crab caked
for us. It was unbelievable how they live with five in
this trailer. Inez has a sewing machine set up and was
sitting there working piles of clothes and Tupperware
containers with their personnel belongings and Quilt
blocks that Inez has made. Inez went and got the
comforter that you made for here and was asking
questions to Betty who made those and kept going on
about the flannel that was so good and soft and how she
can not find flannel like that. Inez followed Betty to
the car and with tears in her eyes said that we will
never know what this means to them.
They told me to thank everyone for
them, for the funds that you gave and by giving of your
time.
I just want to again comment on
the great job everyone did this week what a great group
of people , including all those that did all the
planning and material lists. For those that were there
know that we only needed to run after a few items to
keep the project going , and that is the result of the
work by Dan Dutcher, Scott Sommers, Joe Weaver, John
Raber and Randy Coblentz.
Thanks to everyone.
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