Dec. 2, 2006 - Service Project Recap

[Event Day Slide Show]

The AustinONE leadership team would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who participated in our first event! You will probably never know the impact you made in the name of Christ - but God knows. We were blessed with 241 incredible volunteers...and many folks who couldn't make it to event day, but contributed in other ways. God did more than we could have asked or imagined! We invite you to come and be a part of our next event day this summer....as we continue to work as ONE!

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Beatrice's House:

• Painted the tool shed
• Redid a bathroom
• Repaired damage to an indoor ceiling
• Raked leaves
• Painted doors
• Painted shutters
• Powerwashed the house

Lula’s House:

• Painted the entire interior of the house
• Replaced 3 sets of blinds
• Raked the entire yard
• Removed large pile of tree trimmings
• Repaired a screen door
• Repaired exterior trim boards
• Installed a new ceiling fan light
• Disassembled and moved furniture out before painting and moved it back in afterwards
• Cleaned the kitchen

Dorothy's House

• Painted the living room, Master bedroom, and hall bedroom
• Moved and organized a two large piles of rock
• Cleared out her property line (cut down trees, removed excess garbage and building material, removed thorns and a lot of brush, and removed anything we came across that was buried under the brush.)
• Glued down master Bathroom floor
• Moved couch and tools from entry room
• Hung curtain rods
• Touched up all of the paint throughout the home.

Mrs. Dinease house:

• Completed the flooring (layed wood flooring)
• Installed blinds.
• The house was also completely painted on the outside
• Minor repairs to sheet rock on the inside
  

Activities with Kids (Booker T. Washington, Rosewood, Chalmers, and Santa Rita):

• Decorated name tags and blew bubbles
• Made crafts (the kids loved playing with the dough)
• Told a bible story (Jesus feeds the 5000)
• Had prayer time for their families with a plan of salvation
• Candle making
• Had lunch and cookies
• Played basketball
• Passed out goodie bags of school supplies and gave them lots of love

NOTE: We were also asked to have a Christmas party for the families at Booker T Washington apartments on December 16th. It was a tremendous success. We sang songs, decorated sugar cookies and other crafts, ate spaghetti, and donated clothing for distribution. (Sponsored by the Christian Women's Job Corps, Polka Dot Pony and AustinONE)

Curb Painting:

• 7 teams....addresses painted on an estimated 500 curbs!
  

Neighborhood Cleanup

With 5 teams we cleaned the areas around....

• Rosewood, SL Davis, Pennsylvania, New York Avenue and 12th Street
• Our team cleaned up SL Davis and the intersecting streets and alleyways.
• Cleaned up a "gully/creek" at the cul-de-sac of Alamo St just past Pennsylvania Avenue
• Cleaned up as best we could at a general dumping area on Poquito Street between Pennsylvania Ave and New York Avenue.
• One team alone collected about 40 bags of trash
  

Creek Cleanup

• Picked up litter, mainly paper, plastic, metal.
• More clean-up on lower and upper Boggy Creek, especially in Priority 2 area
• We did about 40 bags worth of trash.