Ike Relief: The Crew Vision

We had a good crew of people working in Hitchcock and Santa Fe on Saturday, November 9th to help with a couple of roofs. This was our first go at doing some roofing, which will be a major category of recovery help in the coming months. It wasn’t too bad. I think we can develop the expertise for simple roofs pretty quickly.

We won’t be having a crew go out this coming Saturday, because of the Thanksgiving church event at Old City Park in Friendswood (3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.) and preparation for it. The following Saturday (November 22nd) we hope to have a large crew of teens celebrating Nathan Jackson’s birthday by helping. More on that later.

The Crew Vision:

On Saturday we had all four ‘weekly’ crew leaders working, and we had the chance to talk and re-commit ourselves to the idea of establishing rotating crews for Ike relief and other helping exercises.

The four crew leaders are Jeremy Anderson, Doug Breaux, Steve Norman and Bob DeGray.

We figure there are between 100 and 140 ‘able bodied’ people at Trinity. That includes men, women and teens. We’ve found that both male and female help on these crews is welcome and effective. If we divide that by four it gives a pool of 25 to 35 people for each Saturday of the month. From that pool we hope to create a crew, on any given Saturday, of seven to ten people.

These weekly work crews will not be limited to Ike relief. On some Saturdays we hope to use the crews to do needed work around Trinity, or to help Trinity families with needed work (i.e. moving the Olsons, or remodeling at the Reeds).

We are convinced that having people available for such needs will be a real blessing to Trinity and a wonderful outreach ministry - showing God’s love in a practical way; physically doing God’s will!

We’re going to have a sign up sheet at the Thanksgiving event this Saturday and again at church on Sunday where we’ll be asking you to sign up to be in the pool of able bodied people and to indicate which Saturdays of the month you are not usually available to help. We will use this information to start making calls to establish the pool of workers for each Saturday.

Then, when we know the timing and task for any given Saturday we will call through that pool of workers to find out who is available. Under this system, you should only get a call once a month at the most.

Please prayerfully consider jumping in the pool! You will be God’s blessing to others if you do!