Local Missions

Contacts:
Chairs: Allen and Kelly Krivsky 770-424-8570

Home
For some in our community, home means brokenness, pain, and emptiness. Throughout the next several months you are invited to discover the peace and warmth of home in your house by offering the peace and warmth of home for others throughout our community.

Home Owner Info:

Raphael Mbucho Muhia
Judy Waithira Mbucho

George Mbucho, (M) 9 years
Peter Mbucho, (M) 1 years
Raphael Mbucho Jr., 1 month

General Info:
The build usually begins with a safety talk at 7:50 a.m. and work is stopped at 4:00 p.m. each day, rain or shine. If inclimate weather persists, we will decide at the build site whether to continue working or not. Work boots or heavier shoes are preferred, and no open toed shoes are allowed. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and bring a good pair of work gloves, too. You might find a hat and sunscreen helpful, as well. Cobb Habitat will provide water jugs, but you might want to bring your own water bottle. If you have a tool belt or nail apron, hammer, tape measure, and pencil, please bring them to the build site.  Clearly label everything you bring.

We will offer a shuttle service from the church to the build site for your convenience.  The schedule is as follows:

Depart MFUMC at 7:15 AM     Arrive Crestridge 7:40
Depart Crestridge 10:45    Arrive MFUMC 11:10

Depart MFUMC 11:30          Arrive Crestridge 11:55
Depart Crestridge 1:05     Arrive MFUMC 1:30

Depart MFUMC 1:35           Arrive Crestridge 2:00
Depart Crestridge 4:30     Arrive MFUMC 4:55

Directions to the House:
Hillcrest West
Austell, GA  30168
This year we will be building in Phase I (Hillcrest West) & II (Hillcrest East) of the Hillcrest Habitat community.

Directions:
Take I-20 West 3.2 miles west of I-285 and exit at Six Flags Parkway.  Make a right off the exit ramp (head north) for 0.4 miles.  Turn left onto Hillcrest Drive and go about 0.7 miles to Hillcrest.  The build sites will be on the right.
Alternate directions:
Take I-285 to South Cobb Drive.  Exit onto South Cobb Drive going outside the Perimeter and go 1.8 miles.  Turn left onto Cooper Lake Road and go 1.6 miles.  Turn right onto East West Connector and go 0.5 miles.  Turn left onto Fontaine Road and go 2.8 miles. Turn left onto Floyd Road and go 0.9 miles.  You will cross over Bankhead Highway/Veterans Memorial Highway and Floyd Road will change names to Mableton Parkway. 
Continue on Mableton Pkwy/Gordon Road for 1.9 miles.  Turn right onto South Gordon Road and go 0.4 miles; get in the turn lane and turn left on Hillcrest Drive (in front of Fire Station No. 9).  Go 0.7 miles and the subdivision is on the left. 

Build Schedule:

Cobb County Habitat
*Tentative* TEN-WEEK BUILD SCHEDULE

Week              Work Assignment

1 (04/26)          Build interior and exterior walls.
           
2 (05/03)         Install and brace trusses, decking, install windows, doors, fascia, dead wood, and attic stair support.

3 (05/10)          Install insulation baffles, felt roof, begin siding, barge rafters, fascia, and drip edge.

4 (05/17)          Siding, insulate exterior walls, caulk, plumbing holes, and run wire.

5 (05/31)          Trim porch, prime walls, install interior door trim.  Continue siding, and scrape floors.  

6 (06/07)         Paint doors, continue siding, begin painting siding.

7 (06/14)          Paint interior, finish installing aluminum fascia and siding, finish painting siding.
           
8 (06/21)          Finish painting interior and porch, clean floors, install interior door/bathroom hardware.

9 (06/28)          Landscape yard, create punch list, complete miscellaneous tasks.

10 (07/12)        Cut and install shoe molding, complete punch out items remaining, clean house for dedication. Install front and rear storm doors.    

*11 (07/19)      Finish any necessary tasks to complete project.

2007 Habitat for Humanity Build: Isaiah 65:17-25 has provided a Biblical Context for our efforts in our 2007 Habitat Build.  The poetry of the prophet seems to have come alive over each Saturday for the past several months.  We see how God would have things in contrast to how things often appear.  Often as seemingly nonsensical or illogical as one who falls short of a hundred will be considered as accursed (v. 20) or the wolf and the lamb feeding together (v. 25) or even the creation of a new heavens and a new earth (v. 17) is a group of people who come out on a Saturday morning and a slab of concrete becomes the walls and the structure of a house.  Throughout the process we recognize the hopes and the dreams of home that we all share regardless of what neighborhood we come from.

Serve Lunch on Fridays at MUST:Help is needed on Fridays throughout the summer!
We meet at 10:00 a.m. in the Family Life Hall Lobby. Call Peggy Adler, 770-427-1987.

Food Drive for MUST: MUST MINISTRIES needs immediate help! Food supplies are nearly depleted due to a record drop in donations and an increase of those needing fed. You can help by donating canned foods such as beef stew, canned tuna, oatmeal, canned chicken, ham or salmon, beans, and canned fruit to the food pantry at the MUST Donation Center. For directions, go to http://www.mustministries.org/documents/warehouseMap.pdf.

Tutor Opportunities Available
Due to the outstanding response from our community to our English as a Second Language Program (Project Light), we have additional opportunities for tutors. Instruction is one-on-one; life-building relationships are central to the curriculum. Call Charles Sanford, 770-928-3676. No experience needed.

Ongoing Opportunities

Local Missions We Support:
Cobb Habitat for Humanity
American Red Cross
We support Wesley Woods with a special offering on Mothers’ Day
Aldersgate Homes
Feed My Lambs
Hispanic Ministry
Hope Center
Housing for the Homeless
Mountain Top Boys Home
MUST
Extension
Crime Victims Advocacy
Grocery Bus (pictured at left)
Good Samaritan Shelter
Camp Hope
Murphy Harpst Children's Center