Saturday, June 18, 2011

What an Unbelievable 4 Days

What can 407 Catholic HEART Workcampers do in a community in 4 days?
At 117 different houses we scrapped and painted, 11 houses on the outside, 96 rooms inside, 3 sets of kitchen cabinets, 7 unattached garages, 14 sheds, 3 swing sets, cleaned and repaired 12 bathrooms, completely tore down and built a new deck, rototilled 3 yards, power washed 14 homes, removed 15 stumps, repaired or moved  4 electrical services, assisted 12 homeowners with their computers, removed and replaced carpet 2 homes, washed over 500 windows inside and out, scrubbed 20 houses inside entirely, reset or replace 15 toilets, repaired and painted 22 doors, totally vacuumed 18 houses, fixed 12 screens, hung 5 ceiling fans,  repaired 3 swamp coolers, 7 floors, 6 light fixtures, 5 leaky faucets, 12 drywall jobs, 2 garbage disposals,  repaired 12 decks, painted 24 decks,  repaired and painted 1000 foot of fence, cleaned and repaired 6000 foot of gutters, poured a concrete sidewalk, fixed 3 concrete steps, help plant and weed 18 gardens, pulled weeds at 46 different homes, trimmed and cut grass at 48 homes, varnished 5 staircases or tables, laid mulch at 36 homes, built one clothes line, repaired 5 sprinkler system, built 4 iron hand rails, moved and help build 12 stone gardens, help plant flowers at 9 houses, sorted 1000’s of books to be sent to library in Kenya, removed 7 old appliances, 50 old tires, cut down over 50 trees, cut and trimmed bushes at many houses, but more than that we removed over 350 compressed cubic yards of trash from our neighborhood.  But more important than all that.  These 407 campers brought excitement for life and Christ to the homeowners.
WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE 4 DAYS.

-Roger Gudenkauf, CHWC Denver Manager

1 comment:

  1. Cyndi DeRee, St. Anne, Wichita, KSOctober 31, 2011 at 4:26 PM

    Denver 2011 was amazing...Huge THANK YOU to Roger and the rest of the gang who helped organize this wonderful experience for our youth. I believe as an adult I got just as much out of it as the youth...See ya next summer, Roger!

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