-Information courtesy the Rebuilding Hope, Inc. Dec. 2018 Newsletter
Improvements to our buildings this year enable us to serve our communities more efficiently.
“Since we moved into our new location in early 2017, we’ve known that improvements and changes to the facilities would be needed,” says Rebuilding Hope coordinator Randolph Wilson.
“The new location, the old Coca-Cola building, served one type of business activity, and Rebuilding Hope is a different type of activity, and that made some changes necessary,” he says.
The ministry moved from its location on Oliver Drive to the 1.9-acre site on Raleigh Road and into two buildings which previously served Coca-Cola as bottling, distribution, repair and storage operations.
Projects on the approximately 20,000-square-foot main building have included:
- Installing a bathroom with two showers on the second floor to accommodate volunteers staying in the bunkroom.
- Adding restrooms for men and women nearer the meeting room.
- Installing a cooler to store food needed for fundraisers.
- Installing three-phase power to the saw shop and new cooler.
- Power washing loose paint from the exterior.
- Replacing cracked and painted-over window panels in the front of the building.
- Hanging curtains on the front windows.
- Painting the roof on an outbuilding to prevent further rusting.
“Looking at the coming year, we have two large projects,” Randolph says. “We’ve ordered a truss to over-roof a flat roof on one of the buildings, and we want to replace the roof on the drive-through building. Once we get those done, our roofs will be in good shape,” he says.
A future project is building a shelter for volunteers and their cookers during fundraisers, he says. At other times the shelter would be a parking spot for the ministry’s trucks and equipment.
“The additions to our facilities also enable us to support other ministries in their outreach programs,” he says. “Just last month, Grace Ministries used the cooler and our kitchen for its turkey dinner outreach to about 4,000 people in Henderson. Our large dining area allowed the ministry to serve meals there, too.”