Heatherlee Corrigan walked gingerly down the steps of her 88-year-old home, where 20 volunteers from Ogden’s Washington Heights Church sawed branches and dug out brush that nearly had obscured her house.
“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,” said Corrigan as she shuffled in fuzzy socks down her driveway, which had been covered by a canopy of branches just hours before.
“It’s awesome. It’s just so, so awesome!” said Corrigan, who broke four ribs while feeding her cats last weekend. Awoman in her early 30s, she suffers from a hereditary disease that makes her bones fragile and her ability to keep a job unpredictable.
Corrigan and 23 other homeowners in a central Ogden neighborhood this week were the beneficiaries of house makeovers by an army of volunteers from Washington Heights Church.
The church, where 2,200 worship on a typical Sunday, decided to volunteer in Ogden this year rather than send out members on foreign missions to Cambodia, Guatemala, Japan and Romania, as it typically does.
“We need to see our community through God’s eyes,” said Jimi Pitts, the pastor in charge of missions who came up with the idea for the five-day Serve Ogden 2010. His idea, Pitts said, “happened to hit a nerve.”
Friday, June 25, 2010
Serve Ogden 2010: Our Church's In-Town Mission Trip
This week, our church is taking part in a week-long local mission trip. A little over 500 people from our church are working on 24-plus homes in our city. This has become bigger than we could have imagined. God has shown up in amazing ways this week. I'll post more on the week once it's over. Here's an article in the Salt Lake Tribune:
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