Friday, February 24, 2023 at 6pm in the South Life Center. Come CELEBRATE the ministry of Helping Hands! Through Helping Hands, our South Church family has ministered to each other with overflowing LOVE. Taking care of one another, our people have provided practical help like building ramps, yard work, and other varied tasks. Come if you have been a helping hand. Come if you have been helped. Come, anyone and everyone (spouses too), to get an idea of what is being done in the name of Jesus. RSVP by Feb 20 at the table in the gathering space or email Rick RWhite211@hotmail.com or text or call Rick 517-599-3589. Free 

We are currently out of usable lumber like 2x4s, 2x6s, cabinet-grade sheets of plywood, and other building materials. If you have extra or left over usable materials left over from your own projects and would like to donate them to the church, please let us know by contacting our Volunteer Shop and Warehouse Coordinator, Tim Morris.

Helen Flower led the charge to resurface and repair some donated furniture. It came to us originally with a lot of cat scratches which have now been repaired. This furniture has now been donated to Afghan refugees.

The nursery needed a cubby cabinet for parents with larger diaper bags. Tim Morris and Helen Flower built a new cabinet from scratch with larger dimensions per cubby to accommodate this need.

In the shop, Tim Morris helped out a few families that needed assistance with their AWANA Grand Prix cars. The big race was at the end of January. Lots of kids participated. Thanks, Tim, for helping out those Moms and Dads. Not sure any of those kids won, but it's not about winning, right Dads?

Connie Potter donated this bench to the church. Chuck Sites took on the task of cleaning it up and restoring it. Some of the wood was unrecoverable so he took pieces of oak tread from the original worship center stairs and cut and varnished them to fit. Thanks Chuck.

Helen Flower sewed together new covers for the church popcorn machine and the snow cone, ice grinder. Thanks Helen. That will keep the dust off while they are stored in the shop awaiting Southfest.

Tim Morris created two small, grey cabinets himself. It holds the boxes of gloves for distribution to the kitchen volunteers. This helps keep the gloves contained so they are not laying all over the counter during food preparation, saving a little space. Good idea, Tim.

Simmons family needed a handicap ramp built fast. Helping Hands came in to help. The crew consisted of PJ Mulford, Denver Moye, Dan Murphy, Richard Leonard, Doug Park, Tony Piper, Jack Hill, Fred Evenson, Tim Morris, Steve Craun, Rick Spitzer, Rick White, Director. They first built sections of the ramp at the barn and then transported the pieces over to the Simmons house and assembled it.

John Risch, John Shoemaker, Tony Piper, Rick White, and Steve Kraun moved some furniture pieces for Judy Carr from her house to an assistive living place.

There was a big need to rebuild the percussion platform on the congregation's right side of the Worship Center to make it strong enough to hold the weight of the grand piano. Dan Murphy headed up multiple teams of guys in January to do just that. Guys like Nick Bebee, Fred Evenson, Tony Piper, Denver Moye, Doug Park, Rick White, Rick Spitzer, Jeff Adams, Dave Seavey, Richard Leonard, Dennis VanCleve, Rob Beckon, Eric Vanden Bosch, Bruce Bishop, Rob Buffington, Chris Kleiwer, Anthony Rodilico, Nick Liles, Rob Wilkinson, and PJ Mulford to name a few. There were a bunch of other guys willing to come out and help but we actually finished the project in one-third the time so there was nothing left to do.

You can see in the picture on the left that Dan was really getting into his work. Thanks to everyone who helped knock this project out fast.

Jessica Doerr and her friend, Veronica Hetke, unloaded multiple bins of materials, props, and small furniture pieces into the barn warehouse. These items were donated to us from a non-profit ministry out of Mason. Much of these items will be used or repurposed in future presentations or projects.

We finally finished the doors on the choir shell in the Worship Center. This helps dampen air noise coming from the back vents behind the stage and pushes the choir sound forward to the congregation. Cliff Shootz, Rick Spitzer, Tim Morris, Helen Flower, and Rob Beckon completed this task. It has been on the to-do list since before COVID.