Scott and Kathryn
Last Saturday I volunteered at the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program sponsored by Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority in Port Orchard.
One of our young families, Scott and Kathryn (in the photo above) are building their house along with a dozen or so other young families. Each family has to put in at least 30 hours of work a week, and volunteers help build the family's hours. All the families work together to help each other build their homes, and there's a wonderful spirit of cooperation and good humor present.
There's a supervisor at the site who teaches the participants how to build their houses and generally supervises the project. Since the last time I came in August, Scott and Kathryn's house has gone from a few walls on the first floor to nearly framed. The crew was nailing on the roof sheeting this Saturday.
I helped spread bales of straw on the bare ground to prevent erosion and I helped install roof trusses on one of the houses. Kathryn's mother, Heather, brought lunch to all the families which I enjoyed along with the others. I left after lunch to go write my sermon.
It was a fun and productive morning.
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