What the city was asking was if we could help gut the house, so the roofers could come in and repair the roofs and ceiling without all the contents of the house in the way, as well as that it could get damaged during the repair. Ms. Juanita Spells, from the city was trying to do most of this work by herself on the weekends (which is not part of her job, by the way) but she was determined to care for this elderly man.
I am happy to say that I immediately sent the word out to our local youth pastors and several responded, with short noticed for the city was on a time-line. We had over 20 adults and students from: IRC Methodist, Crosswalk Community, Crossroads Community, Christ Community and Redeemer Presbyterian show up. We almost completely gutted his entire house, taking over four truck and trailer loads to the dump, because of all the water damaged. We were able to store his most valuable things, thanks to Steve and Debbie Cox of Cox Discount Storage, who are members of CCC, who gave us a storage unit, while Mr. Shank's roof is being repaired. We also bleached and cleaned everything we could. Juanita was overjoyed with all that we were able to accomplish and this project was a good example of the christian community responding to a local need. Thank you to all of you that participated!
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