Local Christmas Service Opportunity

Lower Lights, a ministry working in the depressed Hilltop/Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, needs volunteer labor to get a house livable for a local family before Christmas. The details are below. It appears there are two opportunities, this week to install insulation, and then after December 5 for finishing. If you’d like to go down, let me know and I’ll try to help organize SU volunteers.

Greetings all,

I apologize for not being in contact for several weeks, but we have been spending most of our time getting the mechanical on the house completed. The good news is that the electric, plumbing, and HVAC inspections have passed. The bad news is that the next month we are going to have to work like mad to get our family in by Christmas. This is ambitious (especially December being so crazy for all of us), but we believe it is doable.

The planned schedule is as follows:

• Nov 15-19 – finish structural needs for inspection
• Nov. 21 - have structural inspection passed
• Nov. 26 – have insulation installed (we could use volunteers!)
• Dec. 4 – have drywall completed (we are contracting this out because of skill level needed and time constraints)

This means from Dec 5-23 we need help:

• Priming/painting
• Installing plumbing fixtures
• Installing kitchen cabinets/appliances
• Installing flooring
• Installing electric fixtures

We are desperate for you to go to your networks and enlist as much help as you can. We can likely accommodate any time people have to work (we will have lighting and heat so that work can be done around the clock) and we can use various skill levels.

If you or any of your people can help, please call Andy Scott (404-5162) or myself (738-4129) and we will make arrangements.

I GREATLY appreciate your patience through this process and your dedication to open the door to homeownership for low-income families.

David C Gay
Executive Director
Lower Lights Ministries, Inc.
1066 Bellows Avenue - Columbus, Ohio 43223
614.228.3855 (phone) 614.228.1255 (fax)
www.lowerlights.org