Handicap Ramp CSO

WOW... I am excited about this!!  In late February we heard about a lady who was home bound because she is in a wheelchair and her home is not wheelchair accessible.  That didn't sit well with me and if I am honest with you, I didn't pray and ask God if we were supposed to build a ramp for her, I just volunteered our church to take on the project and believed that God would take care of the details.  It was one of those situations that I felt like it was better to ask for forgiveness then ask for permission.  After I committed to take on the project, we went and visited their place and saw they had made a make shift ramp(first picture above) and that sealed the deal for me, we had to do something.  While I was visiting some very close friends in the Treasure Valley, I shared about the opportunity and they said, "We want in!!"  So our Friends, The Kuhn's came up to sponsor and lead the project for us.  Michael (he is the one with the pencil in his mouth in the pictures above) is in the remodeling and restoration business, so this was right down his alley and he led our people in building the ramp.  Thank God for providing us with him and his family. 

While us adults were working on the ramp, our kids were at our house making doggie treats, cupcakes, and cards for the family and their three dogs.  How cool is it that our kids got to help bless their family and got to be apart of the whole experience.  If that were the end of the story, that would be an awesome story, but we had so many people show up on Saturday to help build that we ended up sending half of our crew into the Syringa Trailer Park Community Center and hauling 6 truck loads of garbage to the dump for them.  And still there is more, check out the rest of the story...

If you don't live here in the Palouse, you wouldn't know that we have been hit hard by a lot of rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc for the past several weeks and as you can see in the pictures above we are a muddy mess up here.  So I knew the possibilities of working out in the rain was real and when I started checking the weather for the Saturday we were supposed to build the ramp, it said 100% chance
 of rain.  I was nervous because the rain had been intense all week and I was afraid it was going to make building the ramp impossible.  As the leader, I talked a big game and told our people, "we will not be rained out, we don't just serve our community when it is convenient, etc", but inside I was a wreck because I was so afraid the rain would be too intense to work in.  Michael told me Thursday that he prayed and asked God to just give us good weather till 3pm on Saturday and he was confident that would happen.  We went to bed Friday night with hard rain but we awoke Saturday to partly blue skies and calm winds.  We were able to build the whole ramp without one drop of rain and at 2:55pm the first gust of wind hit us and by 3pm when we were driving away after finishing the ramp, the rains started and it became intense for the rest of the weekend.  God did not just provide us the opportunity, the man power, the finances, but He also gave us the perfect working conditions!!  How cool is our God right!?!  We truly have a God who cares for us!!

I want to thank all of you who came out and worked on Saturday.  I want to thank those of you who contributed financially to the project.  Thank you Kuhn Family for all of your involvement, support, and contribution!!  Thanks to Deb and Anna who worked with our kids and brought the workers lunch.  Thanks Syringa for letting us come into your community and show off God's love.

I can't wait for the next opportunity God gives us in our community because we have an All-Star cast here at Intersect!!  When the next opportunity arises, and it will, you will hear about it!!  God Bless