The team named themselves ‘Love Kiev.’ While at home churches around Winnipeg participated in a city wide event called ‘Love Winnipeg’ where they do practical acts of kindness for people all over the city, Kilcona Park Alliance Church (our home church) sent a team to us in Kiev to do a very practical act of kindness- Renovations!
We have a large building that actually used to be a restaurant boat. With very little insulation, in the winter time everyone inside had to run space heaters and even then were still cold. You can imagine how cold and uncomfortable everyone was, plus the electricity bills were super high! In just 10 short working days the team managed to insulate the entire lower level (pulled off siding, built framing, put in new insulation, vapour barrier, OSB and then finished with new siding. We ran an small AC unit in one of the rooms and with the new insulation it stayed nice and cool (in the past even two AC units running wouldn’t cool the room).
If that wasn’t enough the team decided that they would pull up the floor in our large student lounge and put down new laminate, plus change a very ugly tree pole into a nicely framed in pole. Plus new furniture and moldings, and lights! Of course as a mission we don’t have an abundance of money, but everything was bought and paid for by the team’s prior fundraising efforts!!
Thank you everyone for coming!!! You are all AMAZING! And thank you to everyone who sent little gifts for our family and for our mission- what a huge blessing that we can’t even express a proper thank you for!
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