Saturday Volunteering Part I & Part 2

Well 9:00 Saturday morning arived and so did...

• 70 middle school youth group kids from the greater Pittsburgh and North Hills Area
• 7 chaperones for this wild bunch
• 20 CMU Frat boys
• 2 random walk-ins from CMU
• A gathering for state rep. Joe Preston
• and Union Project Staff - Duane, Andrea, and myself

This was by far the most amounts of volunteers we have ever had in this building. The work they accomplished was immense. The youth group cleaned and swept the entire great hall, set up the chairs for worship service on Sunday, cleaned and organized our tool cage, the entire dirt basement, moved all clay and reorganized the glazes, restacked doors and wood, took out trash, moved stuff to the dumpster, all during their 30 hour famine. It was quite impressive. We had a quick meeting with them when they were done their work, thanked them for the blessing of working for us, talked a little about fasting and what it ment as a body of Christ, and told asked them to keep us in their prayers as we would keep them in ours. Over all, I think we had a great time with them today.

The CMU students and Frat boys successfully de-leaded and cleaned 3 kites and 4 eyes of stained glass windows. They did a great amount of work to prep us for our stained glass classes. They also helped move out excess dry wall from the coffee house construction and straightened up the construction area.

After our youth group volunteers left for the day, I continued to work with the CMU students who were working diligently on the stained glass windows. Today I finished the reconstruction of my window. I had finished soldering it yesterday, and cemented and polished the window today. Now I wait for the cement to dry and I will be re-installing the window into the great hall later this week! How exciting! Look at what the window used to look like, and how it looks now!

Impressive, I must say.

While having the 99 volunteers working very hard, Sen. Joe Preston's supporters had a meeting in our atrium and expressed no problem with noise due to the volunteer work going on. I would have to say that it was quite a successful day. Yet they day is not over, for Duane and I have our meeting with volunteers coming in who are interested in getting involved on a more routine basis. With the amount of interest and work that was accomplished already today, I am very excited for what may be another productive meeting with volunteers here at the Union Project.
Stay tuned for an updated post on how that meeting went and how the Union Project is going to grow.

Thank You all for your support!

In Him,
Reed

Part II was no good