Fannin
County Habitat has moved into temporary donated storage areas. It was several weeks of hard work and we couldn’t have
done it without the help of dozens of our volunteers and community supporters. While we still have many area-wide partners
out combing Bonham for donated office space for us, we had office volunteers and dedicated staff organizing, inventorying,
and packing the tools and equipment of our trade. We thank you!
We had
our twelve volunteer board members donating trucks, trailers and labor on our designated moving Saturdays, but we couldn’t
have gotten it done without two wonderfully energetic groups of young people.
On the
first Saturday Move Day we had the Boy Scouts and their mothers from Bonham’s Boys Scouts of America Troop 50 to help
us move two huge trailer loads to our storage garage in Honey Grove that is being donated by the Hall-Voyeur Foundation.
On our
second Saturday Move Day we had twenty young women from the Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority of SOSU in Durant helping us. They are
a community service sorority and this is the second year that they have helped FCH. They moved several trailer loads to the
house that the First Baptist Church of Bonham has generously donated to us for temporary storage.
On both
Saturdays these young people came to work—and they worked hard! With their energy they also brought light-hearted laughter
that made the hours of labor fly by for our senior citizen volunteers and all of our movers! (click here to see pictures)
We
are very grateful to everyone that helped us and we thank God for all of you!
As for
me, this senior citizen Volunteer Coordinator is doubling my efforts to find more youth groups and young adults to join us
in our mission to provide decent homes for deserving families in Fannin County. As long as we have to work, we just as well
laugh our way through it! If you know of any young people that may be interested
please give me a call at 903-640-1439 and leave a message!
Have
a blessed May 2008 and I will see you soon at the build site—if not before! Eva
