Christ’s Hands is a four story brick building that houses a soup kitchen, emergency shelter, food pantry, and at one time a free clinic. They work to meet needs in the community and be Christ’s hands and feet while doing it. We were there primarily to help with a variety of maintenance and building improvement projects. Our SWAP leader on site was Aaron. Our crew leaders were Luke and Jim, and I would add Johanna as an honorary crew leader.
There was a freight elevator that was fairly frightening if you were a first time user with slight claustrophobia. It did get better the more we would use it. After the first day, Ray was the elevator attendant so that people and supplies did not have long delays waiting for someone to bring the elevator up or down.
The week started anticipating putting a new metal roof on; due to a delay in roofing materials, we did a variety of other things. This is a list of projects, but it is not a complete list: seal holes with tar on roof,
add flashing to prevent leaks,
install two louvers and fans in the plenum (note all the technical terms I used in that one!),
vent bathroom sewer pipes, and hook up electrical.
In addition, there was opportunity to work with the food pantry and soup kitchen staff to: un-clump 50 lb bags of brown sugar, re-bag potatoes for distribution, carry in pantry supplies at drop-off, clean soup kitchen storage shelves, food prep for the evening meal,
and move furniture to clear space for the possible homeless shelter.
It was a good week of work here with a lot of construction talent on our crew directing those with little knowledge, as well as Johanna heading up the soup kitchen interaction. I worked here for two days, Wednesday and Thursday.
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